Monday, March 19, 2018

12992 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 17th March 2018



The Wire
After several nerve-racking months of delay, a five-judge Supreme Court Bench delivered an interim order on the Aadhaar issue. Of course, this is not the final word. That is expected only later in the year. Yet, the interim order can describe the current state of play. The order is so intriguing that even days ...




Business Line
Aadhaar has achieved “an awful lot” to become among the largest identity schemes of the world, but it may have been introduced 10 years too early, says a renowned fintech commentator. "As I see it, Aadhaar started off as a visionary programme in 2007," says Chris Skinner. With the benefit of hindsight ...






Newslaundry
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 13, extended the March 31 deadline for linking various services to UIDAI's Aadhaar. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, is hearing a bunch of petitions against government directives making Aadhaar - a 12-digit unique identity ...






Business Standard
An NGO in collaboration with several child rights bodies has organised an Aadhaar registration camp for children living on the streets. This camp, which began yesterday, is a major milestone following the launch of the standard operating procedure (SOP) for care and protection of children in street ...




Zee Business
Aadhaar card children: Aiming to reach more children, Save the Children NGO will hold another camp soon in southeast Delhi and north Delhi in April, which will enable children to also seek school admissions. The event was organised in collaboration with National Commission For Protection Of Child ...




The New Indian Express
MUMBAI: The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra police has arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly helping illegal Bangladeshi migrants obtain Aadhaar and PAN cards. The Navi Mumbai unit of the ATS arrested five Bangladeshi nationals who were living in India illegally from Jui village in ...





NewsBytes
In a rather worrisome revelation, it has been found that a simple Google search (Mera Aadhaar Meri Pehchan filetype:pdf) can lead people to access the Aadhaar card details of several individuals. These details that can be publicly accessed by anyone on the internet include name, address, Aadhaar ...





Times of India
In a case of a major security breach in Aadhaar authentication, Rajasthan's special operations group (SOG) has so far identified seven centres where a gang was cloning candidates' fingerprints to help at least 25 of them to take exams through a proxy (dummy) candidate. Devendra Jat, the mastermind ...





Firstpost
In January this year, a news report by The Tribune claimed a breach in Aadhaar data. The report claimed that it took just Rs 500 and 10 minutes for the newspaper to get an access through an "agent" to every detail of any individual submitted to the UIDAI, including name, address, postal code (PIN), ...







TelecomTalk (blog)
Bharti Airtel is now allowing users to check the mobile numbers linked to their Aadhaar connection. Airtel customers can now send an SMS to 121 as ADCHKAadhaar number. Post sending the SMS, users will receive an SMS with details of the mobile numbers linked to their Aadhaar. As usual ...






Newslaundry
I have been a Newslaundry subscriber from August 2016 and this is mainly because of NL Hafta. Your mix of people with different ideologies made me look into news from a new perspective. I would wait for Friday to hear you guys for 1-2 hours, aggravated by the fact that I live in Stockholm, Sweden, ...






GNS News (satire) (press release) (blog)
(G.N.S) DT.16 The SC's interim order on the Aadhaar deadline might not mean relief for everyone. In an interview with HT, UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey clarified several issues. New subscribers of bank accounts, Tatkal passports, SIMs and mutual funds will still have to produce Aadhaar while ...






Inc42 Media
Following this, UIDAI has clarified that requirement of Aadhaar for opening new bank accounts as well as applying for tatkal passports will continue.It further added, “for those who do not have Aadhaar, they are required to apply for Aadhaar and provide the Aadhaar application number while applying for ...






onmanorama
In other words, there is no need to login to access data, which include Aadhaar card details and copies of passport-size photographs of applicants. Even the signatures of SC officers concerned of all the districts are available in scanned format. The e-Housing project enables Scheduled Caste ...






News18
NEET 2018 Form Correction Closes Tonight at 11:50PM on cbseneet.nic.in, Know what can be Changed? The Board had began this one-time correction facility on 15th March 2018 and candidates must once again go through their NEET 2018 application forms to modify details or make corrections (if ...




Times of India
After the state government made Aadhaar mandatory for online registration system to claim reimbursement, private schools have been struggling to ... After mismatch in information on RTE students available with schools and Samagra and Aadhaar Ids, the department outrightly said “Fee cannot be ...






Times of India
Over the past two years, IDFC Bank has set up 290 interoperable Aadhaar-enabled Micro ATMs and 106 Aadhaar Pay merchant points across the state, ... Points-of-Presence (PoPs), including 141 branches, 61 ATMs, 356 business correspondent branches, 13,070 MicroATMs, and 3,423 Aadhaar Pay ...






YourStory.com
Aadhaar is mandatory for one service after another - phone numbers, ration cards, bank accounts, income tax filing. All of the interlinked data will be available to government to garner insights using AI. In the larger scheme of things, this data will be linked to hospital records, land records, purchases, this ...






State Times
JAMMU: A deputation of Kashmiri migrants led by its Chairman / President Er Ramesh Chander Mahajan called on Additional District Development Commissioner (Department of Aadhaar Affairs) in Jammu and apprised of the problems being faced by migrants and submitted a memorandum.






Times of India
However, SOG officials refuted reports that the security of Aadhaar was compromised in the incident. ... Meanwhile, senior officers at the Rajasthan police headquarters said that the candidates appearing for the exam were asked to carry at least one identity card—voter ID, Aadhaar, driving licence or ...






Sify News
If you make a google search query with one of this line you will find thousands of #Aadhaar card. @UIDAI: It's time to admit that this is not OK and to work on a fix." He suggested that besides the security concerns on Aadhar's own portals, crucial details such as PAN card, driver license were leaked ...