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C.Chandramouli, registrar general and census commissoner of India interviewed by Asit Ranjan Mishra, Sanjiv Shankaran and Cordelia Jenkins

C.Chandramouli, registrar general and census commissoner of India, is on the threshold of one of the most challenging months of his career. As the head of an army of 2.7 million enumerators who will fan out for almost a month beginning 9 February, Chandramouli talked to Mint about the methods and controversies of the second phase of India’s 15th census exercise. Edited excerpts: The National Population Register (NPR) seems to be...

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Ilina booked under Foreigners' Act by Soumittra S Bose, Supriya Sharma & Sanjeev Chandan

Ilina Sen, wife of activist Dr Binayak Sen, was on Monday booked by Wardha police for not informing them about the participation of foreign nationals in 13 th National conference for the Indian Association of Women's Studies (IAWS) organized under her supervision at Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University. The four-day conference concluded on Monday. The cops have also booked the in-charge of the accommodation committee of the conference. The offences against...

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NE girls battle racial slurs, feel like aliens by Ambika Pandit

Reena, a Delhi University student from the northeast, was on a cyclerickshaw when four bikers brushed past, feeling up her thighs and snatching away Rs 15,000 that she was carrying. And after all the fight she put up she was literally dragged by the bikers for some distance she reached the police station only to see the constables smirk at her. They simply asked her to give a written complaint...

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Marginalized communities cry for dignity by Himanshi Dhawan

India may well be on its way to becoming a superpower, but for millions of marginalized communities — transgenders, female sex workers, men having sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users (IDUs) — the struggle to live a life with dignity and respect continues. These communities face an uphill battle for a government recognised identity card cutting access to nearly all welfare schemes. Representatives from 20 NGOs and community based...

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Centre agrees to high-level monitoring panel in Chhattisgarh case by J Venkatesan

“Schools and Hostels now being occupied by security forces must be vacated” Supreme Court orders police protection to one of the petitioners With the petitioners in the ongoing PIL case on Salwa Judum asking for the formation of a high-level committee to oversee the rehabilitation of displaced persons in Chhattisgarh and deal with criminal matters arising from the activities of the state-sponsored anti-Naxal movement, the Centre, through the Solicitor-General, on Thursday told...

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