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Aadhaar law will ensure DBT reaches genuine beneficiaries: Arun Jaitley
Jaitley said DBT ensures that benefits reach targeted population and helps in reducing leakages
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Aadhaar to be linked with caste, domicile certificates
The responsibility for issuance of residency and caste certificate is with the state governments and Union territories
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Give priority to pensioners for seeding Aadhaar: Government to banks
Special camps are being held to facilitate recording of Aadhaar numbers in pensioners' accounts till June 10 in pension disbursing banks
 "Give priority to pensioners for seeding Aadhaar: Government to banks")
IT ministry cautions Flipkart, Amazon against collecting buyer's Aadhaar details
It also claimed entities were fleecing unsuspecting people by charging up to Rs 200 to get their Aadhaar cards printed
A billion Indians under Aadhaar: Here's what should worry us
While Aadhaar promises to be a boon for delivery of government support, the concerns around privacy and data protection leave much to be desired
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Aadhaar enrollment crosses 1 billion mark: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Prasad said everyday more than 5-7 lakhs people get enrolled, becoming largest online digital identity platform in world
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In a first, DCB Bank offers ATM transactions sans PIN
Customers can now transact in the ATM using their biometric details
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Aadhaar set to cross 100 cr mark, aims to boost govt plans
As per UIDAI website, 99.91 crore is the total number of Aadhaars issued as on date
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Aadhaar is like drone warfare versus hand to hand combat, profiling becomes all that more eaiser: Usha Ramanathan
Interview with independent law researcher
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Auditing Aadhaar
Need open deliberation on systems to avoid misuse
Fertiliser subsidy through Aadhaar coming soon: Economic Affairs Secretary
Arun Jaitley said Aadhaar Bill would help in saving thousands of crores of rupees by plugging leakages and diversion of funds
LS passes Aadhaar Bill to empower citizens
FM Jaitley said the Bill is aimed at delivering targeted subsidies to only the deserving,
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No agreement with any US co for linking Aadhaar: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Last month, technology giant Microsoft said it had been working on a pilot to link Skype with the Aadhaar database
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A law for Aadhaar
But making it a Money Bill is unnecessary and unfortunate