India's post office turned stamps, postcards and letters into tools for counting a nation after independence in 1947.

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 ...

India has begun counting its population in the world’s largest census, which will include caste enumeration for the first time in nearly a century. This year’s census is a $1.24bn exercise during ...

India will start counting votes for its 2024 general election at 08:00a.m. local time on Tuesday, with Narendra Modi projected to win a rare third consecutive term as prime minister. A whole host of ...