12829 - Aadhaar Related Articles Dated 18th February 2018

The Hindu

A city school student, aspiring to be a doctor, is now afraid that her application for NEET would be rejected as her name in the Aadhaar card is different from the one in the school records. The student has two initials as per her school record, whereas her Aadhaar card carries only her father's name after ...

News18

Scam Could Have Been Averted had Nirav Modi's Aadhaar Been Linked With Bank Account: Sena; Star Alliance in the Works? Kamal Haasan Calls on Rajinikanth Ahead of Political Debut; Will Make PNB Scam a Poll Issue, PM Modi Will Have to Answer on Nirav Modi: Siddaramaiah; After Constitution ...

The Hindu

More former militants are contesting the February 27 Meghalaya Assembly polls than in 2013. The primary reason why one of them has chosen the ballot over the bullet is to add power to the fight against Aadhaar, the biometric scheme. Aadhaar has not been implemented yet in Meghalaya along with ...

Outlook India

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has refused to divulge details on the money it spent on branding and advertising Aadhaar since its inception in 2009. After an RTI was filed by economist Reetika Khera in November last year seeking details on expenses incurred on advertising and ...

The Hindu

“Aadhaar has caused a great deal of resentment among the tribal people of Meghalaya. We do not want to be in a regulated system, as we are Scheduled Tribes and residents of a Sixth Schedule area where such impositions are not applicable,” Bernard N. Marak, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) ...

Zee News

New Delhi: If you have lost your Aadhaar number, don't panic as you can get it back using your mobile and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) website. Due to increasing usage of Aadhaar, losing or misplacing the crucial card can be a problem. If you have misplaced your Aadhaar card or ...

Financial Express

Gurudayal Dilbagrai Trikha, who is a resident of Nashik's Gandhi Nagar locality had been struggling for a long time to get his Aadhaar process completed but was turned down by several registration centres due to their difficulty in getting his fingerprints. The Aadhaar registration process required him to ...

The Arunachal Times

Aizawl, Feb 17 (PTI) Over 94 per cent people in Mizoram have Aadhaar cards, a sizable increase since late last year, a state government official today said. “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 ...

NorthEast Today

Over 94 per cent people in Mizoram have Aadhaar cards, a sizable increase since late last year, a state government official on Saturday said. “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 ...

India Legal

Even as a Supreme Court constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A K Sikri, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan hears crucial matters on Aadhaar—its linkages and privacy and security issues—common people continue to suffer. If they fail to either present their ...

BGR India

Facebook was recently spotted testing Aadhaar integration for new users registering via mobile in India. The social media giant said it was an attempt to encourage new users to use the name as it appears on Aadhaar ID and won't be made mandatory. It also confirmed that the screen was shown to very ...

Daily News & Analysis

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India wave is now being misused to dupe residents off their digital details. Cyber-criminals are now calling city-based residents, luring them towards making linkage of Aadhaar easier or upgrading the network, but are instead gaining control over their SIM cards.

The Telegraph

The station house officer of Sadar police station, Mohammad Sujauddin, said no suicide note had been recovered from the room. The identity of the deceased, stated to be residents of Rampura Mohanpur in Bengal's West Medinipur district, was ascertained with the help of their Aadhaar cards.

THE WEEK

No sooner did the PM mention a 1998 statement of home minister L.K. Advani that revealed the origin of the idea of 'Aadhaar', than the members heard a crazy, demented laughter. It took everyone by surprise, and led the chairman of the house to intervene. However, in an unusual display of quick wit, ...

The Arunachal Times

Dhawan also directed the DSO (stat) to arrange a mobile team for generating Aadhaar cards and enrolling beneficiaries at the venues. He informed that four camps will be organised on 19, 20, 24 and 28 February at the Donyi Polo Mission School for the Hearing and Visually Impaired in Chimpu, IG Park ...

NewsX

It sarcastically added that had his bank account been linked with Aadhaar card, the fraud could have been avoided. It stressed that the tall claims of BJP to deliver a corruption-free governance had been tattered to pieces as the party could not fulfil its promises and many fraudsters were let off. It said that ...

Social Barrel (blog)

WhatsApp started testing its service last week, and users do not require a log-in session and Aadhaar-based payments. The Paytm boss threatened to go as far as petitioning the National Payments Corporation of India, and possibly the highest regulatory authorities to address the issue. Truth be told, the ...

News World India

Bihar Board examinations have always been a matter of concern for authorities. Unsurprisingly, another cheating case was brought to the Bihar School Examination Board's attention on Saturday, following which nearly 1,000 students were expelled from Class 12 examinations. The Chairman of the ...