Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man speaks on a mobile phone as he walks across a crowded market in Varanasi, India, on October 25, 2025. - Niharika ...

India has kicked off a mammoth exercise to count its entire population – all 1.4 billion of them, give or take a few, in a census initially delayed by the pandemic then administrative issues. Over the ...