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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

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

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

Finishing touch

While announcing that one billion Indians were registered under Aadhaar, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday thanked Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, and R S Sharma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, for the success of the Aadhaar project. When asked why he didn't thank the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government that conceptualised the project, he said, "We do things in a better way - achchey se - while they (UPA) only start things. This is why the people of the country have brought us here."

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

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

In a first, DCB Bank offers ATM transactions sans PIN

Customers can now transact in the ATM using their biometric details

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

Aadhaar is like drone warfare versus hand to hand combat, profiling becomes all that more eaiser: Usha Ramanathan

Interview with independent law researcher

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,

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

A law for Aadhaar

But making it a Money Bill is unnecessary and unfortunate