Aadhar Database

Two persons were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly forging documents like Aadhaar and PAN cards as well as voter IDs using a website, in the process posing a serious threat to national security, a police official said on Monday.

A mentally unstable women, found abandoned on the roads of the national capital, was rescued by the police who obtained her bio-metric records from the Aadhar database and re-united her with her family.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Wednesday that FIRs are now being lodged against journalists to intimidate them if anything adverse is reported against certain people.

UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers, has filed a police case after a newspaper appeared to have bought login details to get access to its database for Rs 500, but insisted that there had been no breach. "The Aadhaar data including biometric information is fully safe and secure," a statement by the Unique Identification Authority of Ind...

Currently, people use multiple licences to break the law, because if one licence is impounded or suspended, then the person has another one as backup.

In a blow to the Indian government's efforts to roll out the world's biggest biometric database on its billion citizens, India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that privacy was a fundamental right for people.

The Income-Tax-department had early this month launched a new e-facility to link a person's Aadhaar with the Permanent Account Number (PAN), a mandatory procedure for filing I-T returns now.

From October, 2017, the government will make it mandatory for Aadhaar card identification in order to apply for a driving licence. This is being done primarily to combat the issue of having multiple driving licences under one name.

As the Centre expands the list of government services that would require beneficiaries to have an Aadhaar number, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday insisted that its biometrics database of a billion people was safe. The reassurance comes against the backdrop of the authority suspending Aadhaar authentication services o...

Rajasthan is taking a step towards moving almost all social security schemes onto a biometric and online transfer system. From September 1, the delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System will go online.

The Aadhar Bill, which will give central agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database, was aggressively debated today before being sent back to the Lok Sabha in an opposition manoeuvre that embarrasses the government.

Two persons were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly forging documents like Aadhaar and PAN cards as well as voter IDs using a website, in the process posing a serious threat to national security, a police official said on Monday.

A mentally unstable women, found abandoned on the roads of the national capital, was rescued by the police who obtained her bio-metric records from the Aadhar database and re-united her with her family.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Wednesday that FIRs are now being lodged against journalists to intimidate them if anything adverse is reported against certain people.

UIDAI, the authority that issues Aadhaar numbers, has filed a police case after a newspaper appeared to have bought login details to get access to its database for Rs 500, but insisted that there had been no breach. "The Aadhaar data including biometric information is fully safe and secure," a statement by the Unique Identification Authority of Ind...

Currently, people use multiple licences to break the law, because if one licence is impounded or suspended, then the person has another one as backup.

In a blow to the Indian government's efforts to roll out the world's biggest biometric database on its billion citizens, India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that privacy was a fundamental right for people.

The Income-Tax-department had early this month launched a new e-facility to link a person's Aadhaar with the Permanent Account Number (PAN), a mandatory procedure for filing I-T returns now.

From October, 2017, the government will make it mandatory for Aadhaar card identification in order to apply for a driving licence. This is being done primarily to combat the issue of having multiple driving licences under one name.

As the Centre expands the list of government services that would require beneficiaries to have an Aadhaar number, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday insisted that its biometrics database of a billion people was safe. The reassurance comes against the backdrop of the authority suspending Aadhaar authentication services o...

Rajasthan is taking a step towards moving almost all social security schemes onto a biometric and online transfer system. From September 1, the delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System will go online.

The Aadhar Bill, which will give central agencies access to the world's biggest biometric database, was aggressively debated today before being sent back to the Lok Sabha in an opposition manoeuvre that embarrasses the government.