Friday, April 13, 2018

13265 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 12th April 2018



Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that no Aadhaar card has been duplicated. They claimed that these cards were the least invasive and most successful way of plugging leaks in the country's system which ...






Times of India
NEW DELHI: How can Aadhaar curb the menace of money laundering which poses a threat to the economy, the Supreme Court asked the Centre on ... It also submitted that linking Aadhaar number with PAN would prevent income tax evasion, circulation and use of black money, besides the practice will ...






Live Law
On Day 27 of the Aadhaar final hearing, ASG Tushar Mehta addressed the concerns regarding the alleged infringement, under the Aadhaar scheme, of the right to privacy, upheld as a Fundamental Right in the 2017 nine-judge bench judgment in Justice K. S. Puttaswamy, in the light of the Aadhaar-PAN ...






Qrius
After Nirmala Nishikant Dhumane, an Ahmednagar resident sought to know why her pension was withheld for want of an Aadhaar card, the Central Information Commission (CIC) stated that senior citizens without an Aadhaar card will not be denied pension. The EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund ...






Times of India
Government form asks kids: Parents' Aadhaar number and if they are in an 'unclean occupation' ... The form, which has 100 sub-heads, has been given by schools to students across Haryana, including Gurugram, also seeks Aadhaar and PAN numbers, religion, caste, income and bank account details ...\



The Indian Express
It also means permission to share with third parties data like bank account and transaction records, Aadhaar related information, the UPI PIN, virtual payment address, payment details, credit and debit card information, demographic and profile data about users' activity on apps, information about ...






Jagran Josh
The constitution bench is hearing a batch of petitions filed by former Karnataka High Court Judge KS Puttuswamy, Shanta Sinha, feminist Kalyani Sen Menon, social activist Aruna Roy, Nachiket Udupa and others challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act at the backdrop of the ...




Project Syndicate
When the Aadhaar scheme was introduced, Modi – then the chief minister of Gujarat – vociferously opposed it, pledging to scrap the project if his Bharatiya Janata Party came to power. As prime minister, however, Modi has embraced the program, ordering that the identification numbers be linked to ...






MediaNama.com
The ASG, Tushar Mehta resumed his submissions on behalf of the UIDAI. He wanted to place reliance on Para 92 of the Binoy Viswam judgment as reported in 2017 7 SCC 59. He said theargument that the Aadhaar act was made in violation of interim orders of the Supreme Court is no longer open after ...






Deccan Chronicle
You cannot compare it with the Aadhaar situation where 128 crore people are mandatorily asked to link their SIMs, bank accounts and PAN cards with their Aadhaar cards.” Mehta said, “When a measure is uniformly applied, it does not mean that everyone is guilty. An administrative measure does mean ...






The Logical Indian
Aadhaar had already granted access to the third gender category but not PAN. “Transgenders were not able to link their PAN with their Aadhaar due to such anomaly,“ the official added. According to the new changes made by Finance Ministry, the amendment will now be seen in the PAN form as 49A ...






The Wire
While the sixth point demands the student's Aadhaar number, the 19th asks for the father's Aadhaar number and 36th asks “whether parents engaged in 'unclean occupation'?” It it doesn't end there. Point 72 seeks the caste (if reserved category) of the student, even though this has nothing to do with ...






Telangana Today
Activists from various States had petitioned the I-T Department and the Supreme Court for inclusion of transgender in the PAN card, since PAN is now as important as Aadhaar in most official transactions,” Rachana Mudraboyina, president of Telangana Hijra Transgender Intersex Samithi, said.






Daily News & Analysis
The BJP-ruled Haryana government's education department had handed a 100-point questionnaire form to students of Class 11 and 12 students in private schools seeking details about their Aadhaar number, religion, caste, bank account number. The questionnaire also sought to know if the parents of ...






Gizmodo
Established at the turn of the decade, the Aadhaar program hopes to use biometric data much like America uses social security numbers, helping the government keep track of rural and poor populations that often escape government notice and ensuring better delivery of services and subsidies. So far ...






The Shillong Times
Asked about paperless travel in view of Aadhaar's credibility being questioned on security issues, he said many more passengers were quickly adapting to innovations and technologies when it came to air travel. Referring to SITA's 2017 Passenger IT Trends report, he said passengers prefer technology ...