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The News Minute
Over the last few months, cell phone users must have grown all too used to telecom companies sending persistent messages, urging them to link their Aadhaar. This, even as the Supreme Court has said that linking of the Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory as long as the arguments against its ...
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Times of India
On the one hand, Aadhaar has helped to cut down the time taken for brokers to complete the Know Your Customer (KYC) process from a few days to just a few minutes. On the other, the launch of Reliance Jio in September 2016, which led to cut-throat competition in the telecom space, also helped these ...
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Times of India (blog)
Well-meaning activists opposing private Aadhaar use are trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Inflammatory articles notwithstanding, there are genuine concerns with privacy which should be constraints on the use of Aadhaar and other data services, but not by banning private companies from ...
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The Indian Express
A day after Aadhaar and cellphone numbers, names of pregnant women and recent mothers were allegedly leaked and appeared on the state Women and Child Welfare Department's website, the Andhra Pradesh government on Monday launched an operation to secure data with 33 departments.
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Scroll.in
Good that the Supreme Court finally confronted the government on the deceit (“At the very end of SC's Aadhaar hearings, government admits it has been dishonest all along”). Being an avowed no-Aadhaar person, I have been diligently following developments in the case and even I, a lay person, knew ...
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India Today
While the discussion on making Aadhaar card mandatory is still on, the Andhra Pradesh government has made Aadhaar a must for all those visiting the state Secretariat's office situated in Amaravati. On Monday, the state government issued an order asking visitors to produce only Aadhaar card as the ...
Andhra Pradesh Government Finally Wakes Up To Aadhaar Data 'Leak' On Its Websites, Orders ... - HuffPost India
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The Tribune
A patient did not submit the Aadhaar card during his first visit, so I asked him to bring it on his next visit. But on his next visit, he started misbehaving and refused to submit the same. It is my duty and I was doing the same,” said Dr Veenu Khanna, Ayurvedic Medical Officer at Jawahar Nagar dispensary.
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Beebom (blog)
It appears that the stream of Aadhaar data leaks is not going to stop anytime soon. Last week a government website in Andhra Pradesh leaked Aadhaar data of around 7 million children, and just a few days after that another state government portal leaked the Aadhaar details of over 10 million social ...
AP woman and child welfare dept puts Aadhaar data of 4.8 lakh pregnant women on site - GNS News (satire) (press release) (blog)
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Business Today
A study by consulting firm Microsave, commissioned by NITI Aayog on the performance of the ongoing pilot direct benefit transfer in fertilizer (DBT-F), programmes shows improvement in success rates of Aadhaar authentication but slippage in real time Aadhaar authenticated transactions. A gradual ...
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Economic Times
The government plans to encourage whistle-blowers to inform it about suspicious activities at corporates and is working to link Aadhaar details of ... The Minister of State for Corporate Affairs said linking of Aadhaar details with company filings would help ascertain the authenticity of the individuals ...
Corporate frauds: Government to encourage whistle-blowers to report suspicious activities - Financial Express
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Asia Times
India's all-pervasive digital identity programme Aadhaar appears to be facing a fresh security scare. The concern may also have national security implications, as suggested by material accessed by Asia Times. The key to the latest security breach comes from a modified Aadhaar enrolment software, ...
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News18
Finally, the uncertainties and vulnerabilities of rural life have recently been compounded not only by the demonetisation blunder but also by growing chaos in the banking system as well as the disruptive effects of Aadhaar on the PDS and other welfare schemes. The recent wave of starvation deaths in ...
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Livemint
The rush to get Aadhaar linked to bank accounts, before the Supreme Court deferred its implementation, was an eye-opener to a lot of non-resident Indians ( NRIs) settled overseas. Emotions ranged from panic, as there were no plans to visit India and thus no way to get an Aadhaar, to the operational ...
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BuzzFeed News
Compromised copies of a computer program used to enrol more than a billion Indians into Aadhaar, the country's controversial biometric ID program, are ... letting anyone with access to the program add new entries to the Aadhaar database or modify their own existing entry with no checks and balances.
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Business Standard
This led to a financial loss for village-level entrepreneurs, who used to earn a substantial amount by providing Aadhaar-related services. It also led to job losses. An official in the IT ministry said railway ticket bookings would offset the losses CSCs suffered due to withdrawal of Aadhaar work.
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Livemint
1. Download Umang App from Android, iOS app store: The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has hosted its services on Umang app. Launched by ministry of electronics and information technology, it is a common platform for various government services such as Aadhaar, crop insurance, ...
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The Wire
To get their meagre wages or pensions, they have to submit numerous documents, link their accounts with Aadhaar, go through e-KYC again, stand in queues for hours, and run from pillar to post when their money is held up due to technical problems. According to the NREGA's management and ...
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Financial Chronicle (press release) (blog)
The government plans to encourage whistle-blowers to inform it about suspicious activities at companies and is working to link Aadhaar details of stakeholders with filings made under the company's law, Union minister PP Chaudhary has said. Embarking on multi-pronged efforts to clamp down on illicit ...
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India Today
As a sample, he also sent ten Excel sheets of citizen information containing their names, addresses, PAN, Aadhaar, mobile, SIM and even economic details. "If anyone is in job and if their CV is put up on a job portal, then you'll get whatever you want," he revealed. If anyone has a credit card, I'll get that ...
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MediaNama.com
Kotak Mahindra Bank's 811 service, a zero-balance digital savings account that can only be opened by downloading the bank's app and authenticating oneself with Aadhaar and a one-time-password, had more than 13 million customers as of 31st March 2018, up from 12 million by the end of the ...
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The Telegraph India
Initially, Aadhaar-based biometric attendance system will not be launched but later, the system will be made Aadhaar-based. The corporation also has decided to cut salaries of sanitation workers on the basis of their biometric attendance," said a senior official, wishing anonymity. The official added: "As ...
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The Hindu
The bank had apparently used his Aadhaar to trace his other bank account. “They had earlier forced me to take an Aadhaar card,” he said. He has repaid Rs. 75,000 of the loan amount. Mr. Prabakaran has also been guiding other aspirants in his village to clear competitive examinations. Bank officials in ...
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Deccan Chronicle
Hyderabad: Rachakonda Police on Monday arrested a 30-year-old Rohingya national at Balapur for allegedly possessing a fake passport and Aadhaar card. The suspect is identified as Mohammed Hussaini. In 2018, more than 20 Rohingyas were arrested by Balapur Police on various charges.
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Deccan Herald
... government/state government/PSU), bank or post office passbook with photo, PAN card, smart card by RGI under NPR, MNREGA job card, health insurance card issued by the Ministry of Labour, pension document with photo, photo voter slip, ID card issued to MPs, MLAs/MLCs, and Aadhaar card.
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Economic Times
They don't believe in Aadhaar, which they started. They don't believe in the Supreme Court, which is the prime institution. They don't believe in Election Commission, which all parties have confidence in. Party tickets have been given to eight members of former mining baron Janardhan Reddy's cohorts.
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