55,000 households use Census self-enumeration portal on day one
Around 55,000 households used the self-enumeration portal on the first day of the Population Census 2027 website that went live in eight States and Union Territories, the Union Home Ministry said on Wednesday (April 1, 2026). The online details will, however, be verified by enumerators during door-to-door survey 15 days later. Among the first to fill in the details of 33 questions being asked in the first phase– the House Listing Operations and Housing Census (HLO) – were President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
NASA astronauts blast off for historic U.S. lunar journey
Four astronauts blasted off aboard a massive NASA rocket on Wednesday (April 1, 2026) on a long-anticipated journey around the Moon, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. With an intense roar that reverberated far beyond the launchpad, the enormous orange-and-white rocket carried three Americans and one Canadian away from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre at approximately 6:35 p.m. local time, according to an AFP journalist onsite.
Modi chairs Cabinet panel meet on West Asia crisis
