Friday, April 27, 2018

13366 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 27th April 2018



Live Law
On Day 34 of the Aadhaar final hearing i.e., Thursday, advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan resumed his submissions before the Supreme Court five-judge bench on behalf of the Centre for Civil Society, an intervenor. He submitted that the Aadhaar Act as a whole does not violate the fundamental right to ...




The News Minute
In what could be considered an embarrassment for the Andhra Pradesh government, an independent researcher has highlighted two cases in two days of Aadhaar details of citizens being leaked online. A day after it came to light that the state government potentially made public the Aadhaar data of at ...






Economic Times
The government, especially the DoT, has been left red faced for having apparently misinterpreted the Supreme Court's February 6, 2017 observation and mandated linking of mobile phone numbers with Aadhaar. The process itself, and the incessant messaging by telcos urging users to link their mobile ...






Economic Times
Arguing before a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is hearing a clutch of petitions challenging Aadhaar and its enabling 2016 law, the lawyer referred to various recent financial frauds including the Nirav Modi scam and said none of these could have been avoided ...






The Wire
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised questions over the government's decision ordering mandatory seeding of mobile numbers with Aadhaar and said its earlier order on mandatory authentication of users was used as a “tool”. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice ...






Gadgets Now
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the Supreme Court clarified that it had never asked for mobile phones to be linked to Aadhaar numbers. So, can you look forward to being spared from constant pesky calls and unwanted messages, mails and notifications from mobile service providers urging you to link or ...








BloombergQuint
The voice and text messages reminding you to link your mobile SIM card to Aadhaar is unlikely to stop anytime soon even as the Supreme Court recently questioned the compulsory linkage of the biometric identity. As things stand, customers have to provide their Aadhaar to activate a new SIM card, ...






The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: The government may be against linking of voter ID card with Aadhaar, but it seems people are in favour of it. In a survey conducted by online community platform Local- Circles, 80 per cent people supported linking of voter ID with Aadhaar as they felt this would help in eliminating bogus ...






NDTV
New Delhi: Saachi, a new-born girl from Maharashtra, has become the youngest Indian child to get enrolled for Aadhaar, a 12-digit unique number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Saachi's parents enrolled their newborn daughter for Aadhaar within 1.48 minutes of her birth ...






Millennium Post
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will start holding camps for Aadhaar enrolment at its borough offices in the city, from the beginning of May. The decision of the civic body comes in the wake of demand for citizens to introduce such facilities for smooth enrolment and correction of ...






Greater Kashmir
“It has enabled end-to-end use of ICT ranging from ration card digitization, Aadhaar seeding, commodity allocation to FPS, distribution to targeted beneficiaries, generation of reports & finally displaying all the data/ statistics on the web portal thus greatly improving efficiency, transparency, minimizing