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14061 - Aadhaar Articles dated 28th February 2019


Voter Deletions in Telangana Using Aadhaar Questioned
NewsClick
Swecha and Rethink Aadhaar have questioned Aadhaar based voter deletions in Telangana. In a press release, they have stated that voter deletions ...

Scroll Investigation: How your Voter ID was linked to Aadhaar without your knowledge or consent
Scroll.in
Election Commission used dubious means to collect Aadhaar data of 300 million voters in 2015 before the Supreme Court stopped the exercise.

How To Change Surname And Address on Aadhaar Card
CCM
If there is any spelling error or other incorrect information on your Aadhaar card, it will not be possible to link it with permanent account number (PAN), ...

Govt schemes like Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar saved Rs 1,10000 crore from going to 8 crore 'fake ...
Business Today
Citing his government's schemes like Jan Dhan Yojana and Aadhaar, Modi said these efforts have saved more than Rs 1,10,000 crore of public ...

Bid to save school kids: Why not insist on production of Aadhaar card at liquor joints, asks TN High ...
Times Now
Madurai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has thrown a question to the Tamil Nadu government as to why Aadhaar cards not be made ...


Aadhaar card linking MANDATORY with THESE 3 services
Times Now
New Delhi: The linking of Aadhaar, the 12-digit biometric ID issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), with various services such as ...

Cuttack slum woman struggles for Aadhaar!
Daily Pioneer
If Mita were to breathe her last, what would be the plight of her three-year-old daughter? Aadhaar or the lack of it would dreaded and venomous card ...

With Aadhaar out-of-bounds, payments industry wants RBI to allow them use facial-recognition ...
Moneycontrol.com
The apex court verdict last year had made it impossible for the electronic payments industry to use theAadhaar data for customer onboarding, ...

How India's ambitious plan for digital government grew into a monster
The National
In the decade since India created a government agency to collect residents' data for Aadhaar, the world's largest biometric identification scheme, a lot ...

Step back Aadhaar, Haryana opts for family IDs from March 31
Times of India
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government on Tuesday said its 'Parivar Pehchan Patra' scheme, on the lines of Aadhaar, will soon be launched in the ...

Plea: Remove caste, religion & Aadhaar info for school registration
Times of India
The petitioner sought a direction from the court for the removal of fields such as religion, social category (caste), community and Aadhaar number ...

ALERT! Still haven't linked PAN card with Aadhaar card? Income Tax dept lends helping hand as ...
Zee Business
As an alert to taxpayers, the Income Tax department has already announced that the last date to link PAN card with Aadhaar card is March 31. It must ...

Aadhaar duties assigned to government school teachers
Times of India
Pune: Teachers in government schools across the state have now been given the additional responsibility of enrolling students for Aadhaar and ...

Data protection risks with online e-wallet KYCs far less than the Aadhaardatabase
Financial Express
The use of CKYCR (Central KYC Registry) will solve the problems currently facing e-wallets, who are staring at the March 1 deadline for offline KYC ...


HC: Can Aadhaar card be made must to purchase booze?
Times of India
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Tuesday asked the government whether it could mandate people to produce Aadhaar ...

Can Aadhaar be made must to buy Tasmac liquor, HC asks state
Times of India
Madurai: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has asked the government if it can mandate producingAadhaar cards to buy liquor from ...

These Indians can now use Aadhaar to visit Nepal
Milbank Monitor
NEW DELHI: Aadhaar cards are now valid travel documents for Indians under 15 and over 65 travelling to Nepal and Bhutan, according to a home ...

China could offer lesson for India's struggle with data security: analysts
Global Times
Last week, another security lapse in Aadhaar, India's vast biometric-based identity project, exposed as many as 6.7 million customers, according to ...

India's Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State — And US Tech Companies ...
Osburn Oracle
For U.S. tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, the project, called Aadhaar (which means “proof” or “basis” in Hindi), could be a gold ...

Activists seek probe in voters' deleteion from list in Telangana
Telangana Today
Speaking to the media here on Monday, Swecha members said the methodology followed by ECI to identify duplicate voters using Aadhaar was ...

Jharkhand Adivasis protest failure to get ration for months, Aadhaar biometric snag
COUNTERVIEW
Cardholders said, they have to face hassles (“often leading to denial of ration”) due to mandatory use ofAadhaar and Aadhaar-based biometric ...

Then a pilot programme linking voter ID with Aadhaar was taken out in Nizamabad and Hyderabad districts.

Payments industry wants RBI to allow facial recognition for KYC
Express Computer (press release) (blog)
Facing difficulties after the Supreme Court ordered that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for financial/banking transactions, the payments industry ...