Page 31 - Aadhaar

Aadhaar linking deadline of March 31 may be extended; what you must know

However, in case you have not yet linked your account, here's the list of mandatory Aadhaar linkages

Lessons from starvation deaths: Aadhaar cannot curb 'quantity' fraud

One hopes that the Supreme Court will take cognisance of all the ills and deaths that have resulted from the ill-thought imposition of Aadhaar

Facial recognition another layer of identification for Aadhaar, SC told

While introducing facial authentication this year, UIAD had said that this facility is going to help in inclusive authentication

Aadhaar privacy row: Enough data to clone digital identity of somebody else

India still doesn't have a data privacy law and it's evident that this govt has no real intention of legislating any such law

UIDAI's move to drop CSC pact for Aadhaar services sparks job loss fears

With Aadhaar services taken away, many CSC owners have now asked their staff to leave as volume of work reduced

Critics of Aadhaar say they have been harassed, put under surveillance

The critics said UIDAI and other government agencies were extremely sensitive to criticism of the Aadhaar programme

No essential service can be denied for want of Aadhaar, says UIDAI

UIDAI said it has taken a serious note of some of the reported cases where want of Aadhaar had resulted in the denial of essential services like hospitalisation or medical help

Over 1,000 Meghalaya residents want to erase Aadhaar information

They have also asked for details about the organisations with whom their Aadhaar numbers had been shared

The faces of exclusion lost in Aadhaar debate

The fact is that we don't know exactly how many individuals have been denied their entitlements because of Aadhaar

Old age home inmates denied pension as wrinkles don't allow Aadhaar sign-up

Senior citizens aged between 60 to 79 years who are below poverty line are entitled to a monthly pension of Rs 400, while those above 80 years get Rs 500 per month

Customers defrauded at 4 PSBs through Aadhaar-based authentication misuse

The banks - Allahabad Bank, Bank of India, Syndicate Bank, and UCO Bank - recently reported the matter to the Union government

No plan to make Aadhaar mandatory for electoral bonds scheme: Govt

The government had notified the scheme on January 2

Two held for diverting subsidised grains using Aadhaar data, fake software

The arrested duo, he said, used a duplicate software and obtained a data bank of beneficiaries from an unknown source

Aadhaar is fully safe, data selling report completely false, says Prasad

The report had said that Aadhaar details of thousands of people could be accessed by paying Rs 500 to a private person

Aadhaar a tool to empower poor, no evidence of data breach: Mohandas Pai

Delhi Police had earlier registered an FIR based on a complaint by UIDAI over reporting of alleged Aadhaar data breach

SC says no to RS MP's plea seeking merger of voter ID with Aadhaar

A five-judge constitution bench is hearing a clutch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar

Aadhaar linking to eliminate multiple provident fund accounts: Official

Since July 1 2017, Universal Account No (UAN) generation requires mandatory Aadhaar seeding, bank details and mobile number

Aadhaar electronic mesh, will turn India into surveillance state, SC told

A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court started hearing on Wednesday a legal challenge to the validity of the Aadhaar citizen identification programme, devised in 2009 and extended since to almost every financial transaction. Though SC benches had ordered that no citizen was to suffer for not having the identity card, central and state governments have been stretching its scope even to mid-day meals in schools. The bench was formed in the backdrop of a controversy among the judges, some of whom have alleged that seniors have been sidelined while selecting those who would hear high constitutional issues. The present bench constituted by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also has judges A K Sikri, A M Khanwilker, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan. They have at least six momentous cases before them, including homsexual rights, women's access to the Kerala's famed Sabarimala temple and Parsi women's equality with men in their community. The four seniormost (after the ..

Fixing Aadhaar bugs: Putting a finger on the biometric problem

Ensure that Aadhaar enrolment centres are accessible to the elderly and wheelchair users; train the staff to be more sensitive to differently-abled people

UIDAI allows face recognition for Aadhaar authentication from July 1

UIDAI move to give relief to those facing problems in biometric authentication