Aadhaar
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Aadhaar robust, nationally on-line verifiable ID: UIDAI CEO tells SC
India | Mar 22, 2018, 11:57 PM ISTThe information was given by Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of UIDAI after SC asked him whether there was any official data on how many persons have been denied benefits either due to want of Aadhaar or due to failure of their authentication.
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Aadhaar matter: Supreme Court allows UIDAI to make PowerPoint presentation before it today
India | Mar 22, 2018, 02:34 PM ISTThe Constitution bench is hearing a number of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling Act.
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Aadhaar case: Centre seeks SC's intervention to make presentation by UIDAI to allay people's fears
India | Mar 21, 2018, 01:55 PM ISTChief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a number of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and its enabling Act, said he will fix the time for the presentation after discussing the matter with other judges of the five-judge constitution
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Can a person refuse to follow law on secular matters? asks SC
India | Mar 20, 2018, 09:08 PM ISTSanjay Hegde, appearing for an individual, referred to Article 25 of the Constitution and said it provided that there would be freedom of "conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion".
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Precautions must while sharing Aadhaar number online, says UIDAI
India | Mar 17, 2018, 08:40 PM ISTPlaying down reports of Aadhaar being allegedly available through Google search query of Mera Aadhaar, Meri Pehchan, UIDAI claimed that the issue had "nothing to do with the security of Aadhaar and its database".
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87 cr bank accounts linked with Aadhaar: Finance Ministry
Business | Mar 09, 2018, 08:41 PM ISTThe Union Ministry of Finance on Friday said more than 87 crore bank accounts have been linked with the 12-digit unique identity number Aadhaar in the country till early March. The deadline for linking Aadhaar to bank accounts is March 31.
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How to Download PAN and Aadhaar in the DigiLocker App
Business | Jun 20, 2019, 05:13 PM ISTThe data is stored in the cloud and can be accessed from the app as well as through the website thus reducing the necessity to carry original documents.
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Aadhaar not mandatory for NEET exam, says Supreme Court
India | Mar 07, 2018, 05:14 PM ISTBesides Aadhaar, the candidates for NEET exams can show their passport, voter id or driving licence or give their bank account number for identity.
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March 31 Aadhaar linking deadline can be extended, Centre tells Supreme Court
India | Mar 07, 2018, 06:12 AM ISTAttorney General K.K. Venugopal told the Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra hearing a bunch of petitions against the Aadhaar law that the Centre had extended the deadline in the past too and it can do so again.
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2016 Aadhaar law can't cure right to privacy invasion since 2009: Supreme Court told
India | Feb 21, 2018, 09:41 PM ISTThe Supreme Court was on Wednesday told that the invasion of citizens' right to privacy since 2009 can't be saved and validated by a 2016 law.
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Aadhaar case: State cannot sit in judgement on identity of citizens, SC told
India | Feb 20, 2018, 11:14 PM ISTThe State cannot sit in judgement and rely only on biometric details to establish the identity of its citizens, a former High Court Judge who has challenged the Aadhaar scheme, told the Supreme Court today.
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Over 94 per cent people in Mizoram now have Aadhaar cards
India | Feb 17, 2018, 02:48 PM IST"As on September 23 last year, the percentage of the state's population with Aadhaar card was 79.88 which jumped to 94.15 per cent on February 10, 2018," the official from General Administration Department said.
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Aadhaar case: Is govt not entitled to seek ID proof from citizens, asks SC
India | Feb 13, 2018, 11:25 PM ISTThe Supreme Court today asked whether the government was not entitled to seek proof of identity from citizens if their entitlement to certain benefits was dependent upon their identities.
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Don't deny essential services for want of Aadhaar: UIDAI
India | Feb 10, 2018, 09:36 PM ISTIn a statement the Aadhaar implementing agency said that "genuine beneficiary" should not be denied essential services like "medical help, hospitalisation, school admission or ration through PDS" for the want of the unique identity number.
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After Aadhaar linkage, states delete 1.47 cr MGNREGS job cards since 2016
India | Feb 09, 2018, 05:14 PM ISTThe Modi government, which stormed to power in May 2014 on anti-corruption plank has continuously said that by linking various schemes with Aadhaar, it has manage to plug major source of fund leakage in social schemes.
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Aadhaar law may not be set aside on account of denial of benefits: SC
India | Feb 08, 2018, 09:00 PM ISTThe Supreme Court today said that issues such as denial of benefits to citizens for either want of Aadhaar or due to its non-authentication may not be a ground for holding the law as "unconstitutional".
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What is wrong with 'one-nation, one-identity', Supreme Court asks West Bengal govt
India | Feb 08, 2018, 10:45 AM ISTThe Mamata Banerjee government, which had challenged the Aadhaar scheme and its enabling 2016 Act, told a five-judge Constitution bench that Indianness has nothing to do with a particular kind of identity.
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Vulnerability of personal data for Aadhaar violation of rights, SC told
India | Feb 07, 2018, 07:29 PM ISTThe Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that vulnerability of citizens' demographic and biometric data collected under Aadhaar to leaks is itself the violation of their right to privacy.
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Sibal uses PM’s Davos speech to assail Aadhaar scheme in SC
India | Feb 06, 2018, 08:11 PM ISTSenior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the West Bengal government, referred to parts of Modi’s recent speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos to assail Aadhaar scheme in the apex court.
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Plastic/PVC Aadhaar Smart Card not usable: UIDAI
India | Feb 07, 2018, 06:33 AM ISTThe government body clarified that preference to more attractive plastic or PVC smart cards can make people fall to ploys of unscrupulous elements.