Saturday, June 15, 2019

14170 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 14th June 2019


Aadhaar Act: eKYC for banks, mobiles good, now fintechs must also comply

Financial Express
In the event, Aadhaar authentication was to be used only for availing government subsidies, but it couldn't be used for compulsorily linking with bank ...

Common service centres to restart Aadhaar-related work
Daily Pioneer
People in rural areas will soon be able to access Aadhaar-related services at the common service centres (CSC) following the UIDAI's authorisation to ...
CSCs to restart Aadhaar related work soon: Govt - Millennium Post

Linking Aadhaar & voter ID will end voting fraud, ex-SC judge tells Election Commission
ThePrint
New Delhi: The mandatory linking of Aadhaar with voter IDs is necessary and desirable in order to ensure “anti-social elements” do not vitiate the ...

How Private Sector Slowly Regained Access to Aadhaar Post SC Judgment
The Wire
Aadhaar-based eKYC (electronic know your customer) authentication is back in the news with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officially allowing banks

How to generate Aadhaar card e-KYC offline
Zee Business
One of the major benefits of possessing the 12-digit biometric Aadhaar card is that it helps in fulfilling vital Know Your Customer (KYC) norms.

Aadhaar Card becomes people friendly! Modi Cabinet nod to AadhaarAmendment Bill; top 5 ...
Financial Express
Aadhaar Card holders can now conceal the actual Aadhaar number by using the alternative Virtual Identity (VID) shared by the Unique Identification ...

Resentment among people of Dhakuakhona for not getting Aadhaar card even after 15 months
The Sentinel Assam
LAKHIMPUR: There is resentment among people of Dhakuakhona subdivision in Lakhimpur district for not getting the master cards of Aadhaar ...

Choose right to privacy or right to vote, says retd SC judge: report
MediaNama.com
Sen made a clear distinction between people who saw possession of Aadhaar as an “invasion on their privacy” and people who “were unable to get it ...

Demonetisation, Aadhaar spurred digital payments growth: RBI
The Rahnuma Daily (satire) (press release) (blog)
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) After the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes in 2016 pushed digital payments, Aadhaar-enabled electronic know ...

The Poverty Of Dreaming Cashless
Outlook India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious project—JAM (Jan-Aadhaar-Mobile)—got a shot in arm recently when the five-member panel under ...

Farmers told to submit land records
The Hindu
The beneficiaries have been told to get their land records and to provide their bank account, mobile and Aadhaar details. The district administration ...

Fishermen gearing up for a good season ahead
The Hindu
However, many of them have not yet got the financial assistance of ₹4,000 due to mismatch of names in the Aadhaar card, ration card and savings ...

Man drowns at Bandstand
The Hindu
... Bandra police station, said, “The deceased was identified as Mithunkumar Brahmaprasad Kattar on the basis of an Aadhaar card that we found on ...

17 children rescued from Aluva railway station
Times of India
The others are from north and north-eastern states. Except for the children from Kerala, all others have fake Aadhaar cards registered in the year 2000 ...

Biometric punching at Wayanad collectorate from July 1
United News of India
... 800 employees attached to various Government departments would come under the Aadhaar-linked biometry-enabled attendance marking system.

'Illegal' Police Raids Have Forced Pune's Sex Workers to Operate in Unsafe Conditions
The Wire
Many, however, expressed their inability to secure documents like Aadhaar and ration card due to lack of residence proof. When they failed to provide ...

Govt calls all-party meet a day before Lok Sabha session begins
Hindustan Times
... including the The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Bill, 2019, and Aadhaarand Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019.

PM-Kisan scheme: Less than 5% of farmers have got income support
The Hindu
Sources in the Agriculture Department acknowledged that the process was being delayed at the grassroots' level. “The scheme is Aadhaar-linked and ...

Digital identity in Africa this week: fluctuating govt spending and biometric travel
Biometric Update
... point of which is to give every Nigerian a digital ID in the form of the National Identity Number somewhat similar to the Aadhaar programme in India.”.

Esha Gupta lashes out at Aadhar Card officials, later deletes post
Times of India
Esha had to update her Aadhaar details in the UIDAI server, but was not able to do it. After a series of tweets, when the UIDAI help centre contacted ...

CTET Admit Card 2019 to be released soon by CBSE this week
Jagran Josh
Downloaded Admit Card and valid ID Proof (any of the following) documents such as 'PAN Card, AadhaarCard, Passport, Ration Card, Voter ID Card,

UN Panel Lauds India's Digital Initiatives For Economic Inclusion
NDTV
... UN Chief, Minister of Digitalisation of Norway and a member of the panel Nikolai Astrup referred to India's unique identity infrastructure ''Aadhaar''.

Hyderabad scientist appointed in UN body
Telangana Today
... mobile computing, big data and predictive analytics, Unique ID (Aadhaar) enabled services in agriculture for the benefit of small farmers, the institute ...

Explainer: What Do the MHA's Changes to 1964 Foreigners Tribunals Order Mean?
The Wire
Petitioners who have argued in the Supreme Court against Aadhaar and its efforts to compromise an individual's privacy have also expressed concern ...

Happy feet on Indian Railways
Telegraph India
Sir — Internet glitches, unresponsive biometric machines, non-linking of Aadhaar with ration cards — one excuse after another has been cited to ...

Should You Have a Living Will Made? Here's how
Moneylife
In a landmark judgement in March last year, the Supreme Court had recognised that a terminally ill patient or a person in a persistent vegetative state ...