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Shahnaz to attend White
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Situation tense in
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Petrol, diesel prices to
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Govt. committed to quota
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Cow Commission to be set
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Will Dawood's facing law
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Nitish justifies setting
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Minority panels'
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Sonia to head National
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MHW dharna against Women
Reservation in Mumbai :
Opposing the Women Reservation Bill in its present form,
Movement for Human Welfare (MHW) has called for Dharna at Azad
Maidan on 31st March from 2:00 PM.....Read
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Peace still eludes
Hyderabad, toll rises to two:
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Cow Commission to be set
up for protection of cows: Hooda:
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said that 'Gau
Ayog' (Cow Commission) would be set up in the state to protect cows.
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Will Dawood's facing law
be a favour? Congress asks BJP:
The Congress Tuesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for
lauding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's appearance before the
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Islamic Banking in India – Road Map ahead:
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industrialized countries like Britain, Singapore, Hong Kong and
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1 killed, 2 hurt as
trouble in Hyderabad continues unabated:
One person died and two
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support in Canada:
Canadians have unanimously supported the niqab
ban announced by French-speaking Quebec province this week. After
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Modi's questioning:
Zakia Jaffri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri
killed during the 2002 communal riots, Saturday expressed
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 Sibal promises all help
to promote Urdu:
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal
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American to key agricultural post:
After waiting for months for the Senate to act, President Barack
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Islam,
Christianity alien, so cannot get quota: BJP:
"Islam and Christianity are alien" to India and, therefore, the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) feels people from the minority groups,
even if their socio-economic condition is low .....Read
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the problem if Husain is in Doha, asks SC:
The Supreme Court today refused to direct the government to take
steps to ensure return of self-exiled painter M F Husain, who has
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New Delhi:
One of the largest census exercises, to compile India’s estimated
1.2 billion people into one single database, begins Thursday with
President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari to be the
first ones being listed.
This will be India’s 15th census since 1872. It will cost the
government Rs.2,209 crore and witness engagement of 2.5 million
people, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said.
The exercise will be undertaken in two phases, Pillai said, adding
that the process to create a database on demography, economic
activity, literacy and education, housing and household amenities,
urbanisation, fertility and mortality, Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes, language, religion and migration, would involve
visiting each and every household in the country.
The census 2011 will mark a milestone as the government also intends
to create the National Population Register (NPR), a comprehensive
identity database that will facilitate the creation of a
biometrics-based identity system in the country, allowing identity
cards for all citizens.
Also, for the first time information will be collected on categories
like the ownership of mobile phones, computers, internet, having
treated or untreated drinking water facility, and finger prints and
photographs of individuals which will help the government formulate
plans and strengthen the country’s security.
The first phase, called the house listing and housing census, will
be conducted between April and July this year.
The second phase, called the population enumeration, will be
conducted simultaneously all over the country Feb 9-28, 2011.
Spread across 35 states and union territories, the census would
cover 640 districts, 5,767 tehsils, 7,742 towns and more than
600,000 villages.
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