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  PM Kisan 17th installment: Steps to check beneficiary status online, complete KYC formalities

  June 17, 2024 14:37 IST

  The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Yojana provides financial aid to landholding farmer families, offering Rs 2,000 every four months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the release of the 17th installment, totaling Rs 20,000 crore, benefiting 9.3 crore farmers.

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  Centre asks states to capture biometrics details of Rohingyas, illegal immigrants

  India | September 28, 2018 18:30 IST

    The state governments have been told to instruct the local police to capture the biometric details of Rohingyas and other illegal immigrants, a senior Home Ministry official said.

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  UIDAI rubbishes reports on underground market sale of Aadhaar enrollment software

  India | May 03, 2018 11:45 IST

  The statement comes after some social media and online news channel reports suggested that key Aadhaar software was available in the black market which purportedly bypasses operators biometric authentication and facilitates making of Aadhaar cards without any documents.

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  India to be 1st country in world to have complete biometric of voters

  India | March 21, 2015 18:13 IST

  KOLKATA: India is set to become the first country in the world to have biometric data and no duplicacy in the voters' list after linking of Aadhaar card with voter identity card, Chief Election Commissioner