Aadhaar Hearing In Supreme Court

The Centre opposed in the Supreme Court the request for according precedence to hearing pleas related to the validity of passage of laws like the Aadhaar Act as money bills, saying priority cannot be decided on the basis of "political exigencies".

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

The Supreme Court has asked a charitable trust to approach the District Magistrate with its plea seeking directions for the vaccination of 13 inmates of a shelter home at Loni in Ghaziabad district, many of whom do notpossess Aadhaar cards.

New rules to regulate hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media will be finalised by January 15, the government told the Supreme Court today. The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning a demand for sharing of decrypted data of social m...

The Supreme Court Monday declined urgent hearing of a plea seeking linking of Voter ID cards with Aadhaar numbers to curtail bogus and duplicate voting in elections.

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

The verdict on a clutch of 27 petitions that challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar was reserved by the Supreme Court today, after a marathon hearing that stretched over nearly 4 months. Petitioners' advocate Udayaditya Banerjee told NDTV that they were expected a "good judgment, maybe in July or August".

Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, the son of late Chief Justice of India YV Chandrachud, on Wednesday recalled a personal experience during a hearing on the Aadhaar issue, saying his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, had faced difficulty in authentication to get pension.

A leak of Aadhaar data can influence the outcome of an election, the Supreme Court said today, expressing its concerns about the issue amid the huge controversy over the illegal use of Facebook data in the US elections.

Disagreeing with the centre's contention that Aadhaar has helped curb financial irregularities, the Supreme Court today said the biometric ID has been unable to stop banking frauds.

The Supreme Court today said there was a need for a "robust" law to protect sensitive information of citizens and asked the UIDAI about the safeguards to restrain private entities, involved in Aadhaar authentication, from parting with it.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the mandatory use of Aadhaar card for drawing pension by retired government employees, reported IANS. Aadhaar is a 12-digit personal identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)- as mentioned on the official website of UIDAI- uidai.gov.in. Supreme Court said that pens...

In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...

Claiming that Aadhaar impinges on his fundamental right to follow religious faith, a petitioner today told the Supreme Court that he cannot apply for the 12-digit biometric ID.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the West Bengal government for its stand against the Centre's Aadhaar scheme, saying what was wrong in having 'one nation, one identity' for all Indians through the measure.

The Centre opposed in the Supreme Court the request for according precedence to hearing pleas related to the validity of passage of laws like the Aadhaar Act as money bills, saying priority cannot be decided on the basis of "political exigencies".

The controversial law linking Aadhaar and Voter Identity Card has been challenged in the Supreme Court, with Congress's Randeep Singh Surjewala demanding that it be repealed. The top court will hear the case tomorrow.

The Supreme Court has asked a charitable trust to approach the District Magistrate with its plea seeking directions for the vaccination of 13 inmates of a shelter home at Loni in Ghaziabad district, many of whom do notpossess Aadhaar cards.

New rules to regulate hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media will be finalised by January 15, the government told the Supreme Court today. The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning a demand for sharing of decrypted data of social m...

The Supreme Court Monday declined urgent hearing of a plea seeking linking of Voter ID cards with Aadhaar numbers to curtail bogus and duplicate voting in elections.

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

The verdict on a clutch of 27 petitions that challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar was reserved by the Supreme Court today, after a marathon hearing that stretched over nearly 4 months. Petitioners' advocate Udayaditya Banerjee told NDTV that they were expected a "good judgment, maybe in July or August".

Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, the son of late Chief Justice of India YV Chandrachud, on Wednesday recalled a personal experience during a hearing on the Aadhaar issue, saying his mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, had faced difficulty in authentication to get pension.

A leak of Aadhaar data can influence the outcome of an election, the Supreme Court said today, expressing its concerns about the issue amid the huge controversy over the illegal use of Facebook data in the US elections.

Disagreeing with the centre's contention that Aadhaar has helped curb financial irregularities, the Supreme Court today said the biometric ID has been unable to stop banking frauds.

The Supreme Court today said there was a need for a "robust" law to protect sensitive information of citizens and asked the UIDAI about the safeguards to restrain private entities, involved in Aadhaar authentication, from parting with it.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the mandatory use of Aadhaar card for drawing pension by retired government employees, reported IANS. Aadhaar is a 12-digit personal identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)- as mentioned on the official website of UIDAI- uidai.gov.in. Supreme Court said that pens...

In a rare move, the Supreme Court bench hearing the legal challenge to the Aadhaar law has agreed to allow a PowerPoint presentation to be made on the controversial identification system. The five-judge bench accepted the request from the government's top law officer KK Venugopal after he argued that the chief of UIDAI, the body that issues the 12-...

Claiming that Aadhaar impinges on his fundamental right to follow religious faith, a petitioner today told the Supreme Court that he cannot apply for the 12-digit biometric ID.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the West Bengal government for its stand against the Centre's Aadhaar scheme, saying what was wrong in having 'one nation, one identity' for all Indians through the measure.