Burdwan, 9 FEB: US Consul General in Kolkata, Ms Beth A Payne, today visited a watershed project in Burdwan district and praised the women who were associated with the Nabard-funded scheme (see sns photo).

The second and last phase of census operations began in the Capital on Wednesday with the enumeration of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence in the presence of Registrar General of India Dr. C. Chandramauli and Director Census Operations in Delhi, Varsha Joshi.

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The second phase of the national Census 2011 will kickstart across the city on Wednesday and will continue till February 28. While the first phase consisted of house-listing, the second phase will also include counting the homeless. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Tuesday announced that around 16,000 BMC staff had been mobilized for the job as enumerators.

Raipur: Less than a few hundred metres from the landmark Chitrakote waterfall, a group of Maoists blew up an under construction police chowki on Monday. No one was injured.

The day chief minister Sheila Dikshit completed 12 years of uninterrupted governance of Delhi, she also had to contend with a piece of news that was not really music to her ears. On Monday, a report on eviction of slum-dwellers and those residing on project sites during the Games revealed a tragic tale of how human rights were grossly violated.

THE Planning Commission will formulate an action plan for central Indian tribal areas in the 12th Five-Year Plan that begins next year. The Plan panel had abandoned a similar programme for Naxal districts following differences with the Home Ministry.

The new plan would include the Red Corridor where Naxal activity does not require intervention of security forces.

ITANAGAR, Feb 7

New Delhi: They account for half the country

NEW DELHI: Population enumeration, the second phase of Census 2011, which begins simultaneously across the country from February 9, will gather information under various heads such as demography, economic activity, literacy, cultural, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, migration, fertility, language, religion, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

As many as 240 million households

NEW DELHI: The Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) has urged Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to ensure that the allocation for the Tribal Sub Plan in this year's budget is increased to 8.4 per cent in keeping with the strength of the tribals in the country.

It stressed that the shortfall on this account was over Rs.