Tuesday, January 2, 2018

12582 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 1st January 2018



NDTV
The Supreme Court of India has extended the deadline till March 31, 2018 to link bank accounts to aadhaar number. Aadhaar number or Unique Identity Number (UID) is the 12-digit personal identification number (PIN) issued by the UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India. Not only bank ...



NDTV
That was said by the UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority of India - the issuer of the 12-digit Aadhaar number or Unique Identity Number (UID) as well as Aadhaar card - on microblogging site Twitter. For requesting an update in the mobile number, Aadhaar holders need to visit the Aadhaar Kendra ...



Ibcworldnews
New Delhi: Regulator PFRDA has asked Atal Pension Yojna (APY) service providers to use a revised form to seek consent of subscribers' for seeding Aadhaar with their accounts from Monday. APY, a guaranteed pension scheme, is government's flagship social security programme. The Pension Fund ...






NewsBytes
The government has lately been obsessed with Aadhaar; it made mandatory the linking of Aadhaar with various schemes and services. There have been many controversies and a lot of confusion over Aadhaar linkage. Though the Supreme Court, which heard petitions against mandating Aadhaar, is yet ...






Financial Express
No one gave Aadhaar a chance of succeeding when it was launched by then prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on September 29, 2010, with the stated aim to provide an identity to the common man, especially the deprived section of the population, who could then use ...






Techook.com
Last week in Tech was dominated by the exciting updates coming in from the telecom industry. Adding a midas touch to Christmas and new year celebrations, Jio announced a Surprise Cashback offer with benefits up to Rs 3,300, exclusively for its prime subscribers. In other news, BSNL announced the ...






Financial Express
When India does 10 million eKYCs using the Aadhaar platform every month, you know something has changed. When digital payments on the phone using mobile wallets primarily rise to, in roughly just the last year, 15% of those made by debit and credit cards—in terms of volume, it is more that ...
Dial D for Digital - The Telegraph



Economic Times
"Revised AEPS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System) interchange which was applied on banks with retrospective effect has impacted the creation of Aadhar payment acceptance infrastructure," the letter says. "Banks who want to create, deploy and maintain such a last mile BC network now have to incur ...






Economic Times
Karnataka, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are difficult for BJP. While Congress under Siddaramaiah is posing a strong challenge in Karnataka, BJP faces anti-incumbency in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. All About Aadhaar The Aadhaar battle, which is now being played out in the Supreme Court, will also ...






Trak.in (blog)
2017 witnessed several online frauds, involving e-commerce customers, Aadhaar users, senior citizens who gave away their OTP and along with lakhs of ... The chaos and panic related to Aadhaar linking led to this scam worth Rs 1.3 lakh, wherein scammers posed as bank officials and tricked the ...






IndiaSpend
The SC has yet to rule on a clutch of petitions challenging the Aadhaar bill. In the meantime, the government continues to mandatorily link bank accounts, mobile services and welfare schemes to Aadhaar. This is despite the apex court's right to privacy verdict and an interim order it formerly issued in ...



Economic Times
"Once regulator allows credit card disbursals on the basis of digital KYC via Aadhaar and pushes up the maximum loan amount disbursed through e-KYC from Rs 60,000 to around Rs 5 lakh, there will be a boost in retail lending through digital channels," said Naveen Kukreja, cofounder of Paisabazaar.






India TV
The government will now provide more options to the customers of telecos to links their mobile number with Aadhaar card number. Till date, a customer was required to visit the office of his telecom service provider to complete the process. But now, an OTP will be sent to your mobile number, allowing ...






Economic Times
Estonia, a small country hugging the Baltic Sea to the east, is seen by many as one of the world's most digitised countries. Citizens cast their vote online and the country even has a provision for e-residency, and this and more has made the tiny nation something of a poster child for the use of technology ...






Business Standard
This is despite the apex court's right to privacy verdict and an interim order it formerly issued in 2015 that held Aadhaar enrolment voluntary. In a recent hearing on the matter, the SC extended the deadline for Aadhaar linking by three months to March 31, 2018, the Mint reported on December 16, 2017.






India Today
Then you might soon have to carry a valid age proof like voter ID card or Aadhaar to buy alcohol at Delhi's liquor vends and pubs. This is if a slew of recommendations of leading NGO Community Against Drunken Driving (CADD), which has been working in coordination with Delhi Police for 15 years to ...






Economic Times
Citing the example of the Aadhaar and payment app BHIM initiatives, Sinha said, "Financial technology is one area where there is immense scope for innovation. We can develop such financial products and services that will create sizable companies. We have the volumes and scale...we have to build ...






Medical Dialogues
A wife of a Kargil braveheart died at a private hospital in Haryana's Sonipat after allegedly being denied treatment due to non-availability of Aadhaar ... son saying that the patient never got to the hospital, and that Aadhaar card was mandatory only for the documentation process and not for treatment.






NewsBytes
The first draft of the much-awaited National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam has finally been published with 1.9cr names. Verification of the remaining 1.39cr applicants is ongoing and will need a few months, officials said. Despite apprehension of disturbance and heavy security, no incidents of ...






Hindu Business Line
... it is time policymakers acknowledged thatirrepressible consumer and investor confidence, which have proved resilient to highly disruptive events, have been the wind beneath the wings of the India story. As the recent bail-in provisions in the FRDI Bill and aggression on Aadhaar-linking send ripples of ...






Scroll.in
... a a blind eye to the atrocities around them. Add to this the herd mentality that drove people to queue up Aadhaar with zero consideration of the impact this ID system will have on their lives in they years. I am praying for a day when the entire nation joins hands to boycott Aadhaar. – Ram Krishnaswamy.






Press Trust of India
"The accused had carried out some illegal changes in his Aadhaar card. Charges have also been slapped against the accused under various other sections of the IPC, which include kidnapping (363), forgery of valuable security (467) and forgery for purpose of cheating (468)," he said. "Charges have ...






Deccan Chronicle
The comprehensive land survey being taken up after a gap of over seven decades reached the concluding stage in 2017. Over 95 per cent of the survey has been completed and the balance 5 per cent will be over in the first week of January 2018. The survey will put an end to land disputes by purifying ...






News18
While four people managed to flee, police arrested nine people, including two minor girls, and instead of sending them to juvenile homes, sent to the jail after producing them as adults before a local court. The Aadhaar cards of the two girls show their dates of birth as 2005 and 2001 respectively.