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New Delhi, January 6: The exercise to carry out the decennial census has been further postponed -- at least till September 30, officials said. The housing listing phase of the census and the exercise to update the National Population Register (NPR) were scheduled to be carried out across the country from April 1 to September 30, 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In a communication to all states, the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India conveyed that the date of freezing of administrative...

Karachi, February 15: Five officials of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (IB) were suspended after a popular television presenter and journalist accused them of torturing him and his crew members for trying to expose alleged corruption in their ranks, media reports said on Tuesday. Syed Iqrarul Hassan, 37, host of an investigative crime show Sar-e-Aam, aired on ARY news channel, in which he conducts sting operations to expose corruption in different strata of society. He explained that an IB officer was taking bribes at the gate of the agency's office and we...