The Union Government has finally yielded to the demands of various pressure groups for conducting a caste census side by side ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues ... Modi's government confirmed the plan, with spokesperson Ashwini Vaishnav saying it, "demonstrates that a government is committed to ...

Now, the government wants to know more about how the caste system is playing out in modern-day India ... Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government confirmed the plan, with spokesperson Ashwini ...

The proposal for caste census was approved in the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs. As soon as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav gave information about this decision, the political ...

The BJP hopes to beat the Congress and the INDIA bloc at their own game and blunt their campaign by seizing the idea of caste enumeration and owning it. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav unwittingly ...

To the surprise of many, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnav, the official spokesperson, informed that the government would include caste enumeration of all groupings, including the other backward ...

The BJP, though, disagrees with the Congress claims - especially the one that caste census was their long-standing demand. While making the announcement on Wednesday, Union Minister Ashwini ...

“The Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs has decided today that caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census,” government spokesman Ashwini Vaishnav told reporters. “This ...

India’s next Census exercise will include a caste count, the Union Cabinet decided on Wednesday. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister ...

Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn’t say when the census would begin when he announced it would include caste information Wednesday. He said the decision demonstrated New Delhi’s ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw confirmed the caste census - throwing jabs at the Congress as he did so - at a press briefing following a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.