Monday, January 1, 2018

12581 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 31st December 2017



Economic Times
It further said that the APY subscriber registration form has been "suitably" modified to obtain the consent of the subscriber for Aadhaar seeding and ... As per the Aadhaar Act, any individual who is eligible to receive benefits under APY will have to furnish proof of possession of the 12-digit unique identity ...



Pune Mirror
He spoke with the Aadhaar customer service from where he was told that he would receive the card soon. Several months passed, but the railway official didn't hear about the whereabouts of his Aadhaar. Having waited patiently, he again applied on March 19, 2013, but his stars ditched him again.






Times of India
Idiya was against Aadhaar from the time she can remember but the latest trigger was a news report she saw this summer. "I made a cartoon on it. Then my father and I kept looking for a platform to show others my work and to participate in the discussions on the issue. That's how we found a Facebook ...






NDTV
Kargil Hero's Widow Allegedly Refused Treatment Over Aadhaar Card, Dies. According to Shakuntala Devi's son Pawan Kumar Balyan, when he took his mother to the Tulip hospital, he was asked to produce her Aadhar card. All India | Edited by Abhimanyu Bose | Updated: December 30, 2017 21:42 ...



Times of India (blog)
The dire threats transformed the 12-digit number from a voluntary facility for users to a sign of our submission to the power of the state. And that's why 2017 is the year of the number. An abiding memory of 2017 is that of being actively pursued by Aadhaar by every service provider that one has been ...






The New Indian Express
The 15-year-old, home-schooled girl, who has taken to the streets against the move, suffers from a rare genetic disorder of the connective tissue called Marfan Syndrome. Eidya staged a protest at ITO on Saturday asking the government to roll back its linking order. “Aadhaar as a concept is good, but the ...






The Asian Age
The 12 digit unique identification number Aadhaar, issued by the federal body — Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) — to all residents of India, as directed by the Aadhaar Act, 2016, contains the biometric details and iris scan of every individual. While the obtaining of the Aadhaar was made ...






Economic Times
However, concerns over the misuse of the data collected for Aadhaar remain. Mobile apps are fast replacing passwords with fingerprint identification. E-payment companies like Paytm and banks use biometric data to authenticate payments and transfers. Facial or iris recognition on phones is glitchy and ...






The Sunday Guardian
The linking of Aadhaar to ration card is also going slow in many states. “Despite several deadlines getting lapsed, many states are still far behind in the linking of the ration system with Aadhaar numbers and so far, only 70% ration cards have been linked to the Aadhaar numbers,” a senior official of the ...






Emit Post
But, any such information related to aadhaar has been removed after the controversy. Ravishankar Prasad recently said in Rajya Sabha that he will look into the matter while answering on cybersecurity and data protection. Facebook has responded by saying that it was conducting a small test about the ...






Defence Aviation Post
The Union government made it mandatory to link the aadhaar card of each individual with various schemes and services such as bank accounts and mobile phone services. Recently, the Supreme Court has extended till March 31 the deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various services and ...






THE WEEK (satire)
The year 2018 is bound to be eventful for India. The fate of the Aadhaar card will be decided; the second Chandrayaan mission to the moon will take off; the Supreme Court will resume hearing on the Ayodhya case which will have far-reaching consequences; the strategic project of equipping Indian Air ...






The Wire
This is why in 2017, nearly a billion Indians were forcefully nudged into re-verifying their SIMs with Aadhaar – a development that was brought on over concerns of terrorists getting their hand on SIM cards – even though the government knew the underlying enrolment system was broken enough for ...






Business Standard
On the Aadhaar front, the ministry reported that the total number of Aadhaar account holders reached 119 crore in 2017, compared to 104 crore in last year. It has also aided more pensioners to register themselves on Jeevan Pramaan - the Aadhaar based platform for biometric authentication of the ...






The Siasat Daily
On the Aadhaar front, the ministry reported that the total number of Aadhaar account holders reached 119 crore in 2017, compared to 104 crore in last year. It has also aided more pensioners to register themselves on Jeevan Pramaan – the Aadhaar based platform for biometric authentication of the ...






Hindu Business Line
The bank decision to unblock the cards is consequent to a news report titled “Aadhaar linking: Customers irked as banks block ATM cards” that appeared in today's (December 30) issue of The Hindu Business Line. It is learnt that these 3500-odd customers were among the 80000+ account holders that ...