New Delhi: In an attempt to douse the protests by the southern states, the 15th Finance Commission (FFC) is likely to partially use data from the 1971 census along with the 2011 census while ...

Tamil Nadu all-party meeting: The all-party meeting presided over by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin passed a resolution requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give assurance in the parliament ...

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin’s all-party meeting has once again brought the vexed issue of delimitation in focus. While the meeting on Wednesday passed a resolution urging the ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday proposed a Joint Action Committee comprising MPs and party representatives from southern states at an all party meeting on Lok Sabha seats ...

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Monday termed the use of 1971 Census figures for calculation of MPs’ and MLAs’ vote value in the presidential poll a matter of "concern". Parliamentarians and ...

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin led an all-party meeting to oppose population-based delimitation, calling it a threat to India's federal structure. The resolution requests PM Modi to maintain the 1971 ...

The 1971 census gets under way today, with the delivery of the bulk of the 700 tons of census forms. There were last-minute appeals yesterday either to back or boycott the whole operation. Young ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Thursday warned against using the latest population figures for delimitation exercise, saying it would severely disadvantage southern states. He demanded that ...

A Delhi-based rights group, citing Census reports, says there has been no noticeable influx of foreigners into Assam after 1971, the base year for filtering out non-citizens from the updated National ...