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Editor's Note: This is a two-part series which will be taking stock of all the important arguments that have taken place so far in the Aadhaar Supreme Court hearings. Part 1 focusses on Days 1 to 15 and Part 2 (the concluding part) will focus on Days 15 to 25 of the hearings. To read our complete coverage ...
How shoddy execution of SC's ruling on Aadhar has turned life into a living nightmare for the elderly - India Today
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The Sunday Guardian
Referring to Section 2(g) of the Aadhaar Act, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and asked Venguopal to define the words “such other biological attributes”. Section 2(g) says, “biometric information means photograph, fingerprint, iris scan, or such other biological attributes of an individual as may be specified by ...
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Business Standard
Enrolment of a mentally-ill woman under the Aadhaar scheme came handy as it helped her reunite with her family after she went missing over four months ago. The 31-year-old woman was found abandoned on Delhi roads and after being rescued by police, she was sent to short-stay home 'Nirmal ...
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The Indian Express
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC.com) has announced a 'Lucky Draw Scheme' and is offering Rs 10,000 cash to the passengers who have linked their Aadhaar number with their registered IRCTC user ID. According to the Indian Railways, the offer was announced in December ...
Did You Know That You Can Win Up To Rs 10000 For Linking Aadhaar With Your IRCTC Account? - inUth.com
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Times of India
HYDERABAD: Raising concerns over the growing 'political dictatorship' within the country, writer Arundhati Roy, on Saturday, urged political thinkers to work towards overcoming the dark future that the country is staring at. Speaking at the first state congress of the Civil Liberties Committee – Telangana, ...
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LatestLY
New Delhi, April 7: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has announced a scheme for its users where those linking their Aadhaar number with the IRCTC account will be eligible for a lucky draw. The five winners of the draw will be awarded cash prize upto Rs 10,000, along ...
IRCTC Tatkal ticket booking: Get Indian Railways train ticket now, pay later; here is how - Zee Business
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The Statesman
The Constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme is yet to be judicially determined, but without opining on that key issue the apex court has ridiculed the concerted effort of government agencies to project the Aadhaar card as a magic wand, capable of blowing away many of the myriad complications in ...
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The Hindu
Awareness programmes had also been conducted near construction sites and other places in the city and suburbs, which have been found to have high concentration of guest workers in the district. Mr. Kumar also said that efforts were on to enable enrolment for Aadhaar cards at the facilitation centre.
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Kashmir Reader
GIRIDIH, JHARKHAND: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will examine the documents, including hundreds of Aadhaar Cards, recovered from the Maoists ... The Jharkhand government has recommended for NIA probe into the recovery of Aadhaar cards, ATM cards and documents related to bank ...
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The Hindu
“And we all know what fascism has done with surplus people,” she said, and warned of impending 'micro fascism' which would keep tab on the mass of unemployed people in cities with no access to resources, and who would be controlled using data gathered about them through Aadhaar and such ...
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Livemint
There was a failure rate of 6% in fingerprint scans and 8.5% in iris scans for authenticating Aadhaar, the Unique Identification Authority of India, which is in charge of the Aadhaar ecosystem, told the Supreme Court in a filing. An iris scan is explored as an additional option to authenticate Aadhaar when a ...
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The Wire
Compliance with Aadhaar is widely resented. Businesses are exhausted by the demands of the Goods and Services Tax. The decline of public order is all too evident. Hindu nationalist organisations celebrate religious festivals by brandishing swords in public. Religious tensions have spiked in UP and ...
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Times of India
NET is scheduled to be conducted on July 8. The CBSE has already said that candidates can submit online application form for UGC-NET, with either Aadhaar or Aadhaar enrolment number or with ration card, passport or a valid government identity card such as driving licence or voter identification card ...
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The Wire
The mandatory requirement of linking the implementation of MGNREGA with the Management Information System (MIS) of the programme and Aadhaar has engendered new reasons for non-payment of wages. For instance, mistakes in entering details such as workers' attendance, bank account ...
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Times of India
When pressed further that the top four judges are not handling important cases like the Ayodhya land dispute, Aadhaar and land acquisition related matters and does it not concern him, Justice Chelameswar said, "He (CJI) is the master of roster, if he wants to do it, let him do it. I never complained.
Difference of opinion doesn't mean we can't see eye to eye: Justice Chelameswar on SC tussle - Livemint
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ThePrint
Though he was convicted to five years in prison for hunting endangered blackbucks, he got bail Saturday, just like he did in the 2002 hit-and-run case. Sunil Agarwal and Ajit Ninan in Times of India takes a jibe at the juvenile condition of cyber security in the country with the Aadhaar and Facebook data ...
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Deccan Chronicle
The government is spending nearly Rs 140 for printing each “customi-sed cheque” on which the logo of the Telanga-na state government, name of the farmer, extent of land owned, sop amount, unique ID number and Aadhaar number are being printed. The banks have set up special counters in their ...
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Telangana Today
This apart, the university administration has linked Aadhaar and faculty registration. This has helped the varsity weed out bogus faculty working in some private colleges. It had also directed managements to install biometric systems so as to record attendance of faculty members. A senior official said it ...
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NewsBytes
The test will be held from 10am to 1:00pm on May 6. It will consist of 180 objective questions from Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Students can take the exam in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarat, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Though CBSE had mandated Aadhaar, the SC ...
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The Arunachal Times
Satyawan was apprised of the difficulties faced by the department at the grassroots and the project levels in implementing the PMMVY due to poor internet connectivity and non-enrollment of eligible beneficiaries for Aadhaar, bank accounts, etc. Satyawan assured to take up the issues with the ...
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Star of Mysore
Mysuru: Hundreds of parents have been thronging Rangayana to catch hold of an application form for the annual Chinnara Mela, one of the most popular summer camps for children between the age group of 7 and 14. So much was the demand that several parents had camped outside Rangayana ...
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BuzzFeed News
Abortion is legal in India and has been for almost 50 years under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. Considered one of the more liberal laws on abortion in the world, termination of pregnancy is legal up to 20 weeks after conception, just as long as it is provided by a registered medical ...
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Why this Blog ? News articles in the Wide World of Web, quite often disappear with time, when they are relocated as archives with a different url. Archives in this blog serve as a library for those who are interested in doing Research on Aadhaar Related Topics. Articles are published with details of original publication date and the url.
Aadhaar
The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018
When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi
“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi
“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.
Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.
Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha
“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh
But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP
“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.
August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden
In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.
Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.
Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.
UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy
1) Denial
2) Issue fiats and point finger
3) Shoot messenger
4) Bury head in sand.
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