Thursday, March 22, 2018

13058 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 22nd March 2018



The News Minute
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Central government that if Aadhaar was an instrument of establishing the identity of a person, then what was need for storing data in a centralised repository and linking the unique identification with everything. "Why you want to store data when you want the ...






Economic Times
“In compliance with the directions of the SC, the undersigned is directed to convery the approval of competent authority that the last date of re-verification of existing mobile subscribers through Aadhaar-based E-KYC process, is further extended till the matter is finally heard and the judgement is ...






Economic Times
“In compliance with the directions of the SC...the last date of reverification of existing mobile subscribers through Aadhaar-based E-KYC process, is further extended till the matter is finally heard and the judgement is pronounced by the Hon'ble Supreme Court,” the telecom department said in a ...




Asia Times
Aadhaar, the Indian government's bid to create the world's biggest biometric database, has become a victim of “mission creep.” What began as a project to create a foolproof identification system to weed out duplicate and fake beneficiaries from public-welfare programs has morphed into a vast ...






Gadgets Now
In another Aadhaar-related extension, the Department of Telecom (DoT) has indefinitely extended the time limit for re-verifying mobile numbers. This comes days after the Supreme Court had extended the March 31 deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to avail various services and welfare schemes ...




Gulf Times
The question from the bench came as Attorney General K K Venugopal commenced arguments for the central government, presenting Aadhaar as a panacea for “enormous” governance-related ills including corruption, leak and pilferage of benefits under the welfare schemes meant for vulnerable ...






Hindustan Times
The income tax website still bars taxpayers from filing returns without an Aadhaar number in spite of a Supreme Court order indefinitely extending the deadline for mandatory linking of the unique identity number. With only 10 days left for filing income tax returns for financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17, ...






Economic Times
The Aadhaar card linkage will not be mandatory for leprosy patients to avail various government subsidies in Maharashtra, social justice minister ... Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique identification number issued to individuals and is mandatory to avail the benefits of certain government welfare schemes.






Business Standard
any communications or voice messages or SMSs, which are to be sent by the licensees to their mobile subscribers regarding re-verification of mobile connections through Aadhaar based E-KYC process, shall not contain any last date for re-verification," the Ministry of Communications said in a statement ...