The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it will extend the deadline for mandatory Aadhaar to avail social benefits to December 31 from the earlier September 30
Arun Jaitley today said JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile) trinity has ushered in a social revolution which will eventually bring all Indians into a common financial, economic and digital space, similar to how GST has created a unified market.
WikiLeaks has claimed that America’s intelligence agency CIA is using technology provider Cross Match Technologies to ‘secretly’ extract biometric information
UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said the top court's verdict on privacy has no bearing on the requirement for taxpayers to link their Aadhaar with PAN by month-end
Ravi Shankar Prasad that with the help of Aadhaar, the government has managed to curb the duplicity and has saved crores with the decision of linking Aadhar with bank accounts.
As per the provisions of Sections 27 and 28, a person's Aadhaar can be cancelled or deactivated if multiple Aadhaars have been issued, or there are discrepancies in the biometric data or supporting documents.
According to a report in Economic Times, the government feels that the Permanent Account Number (PAN) may not be enough to plug tax leaks.
UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said that Aadhaar is a technology for people's empowerment and not a tool for exclusion or denial
The statement comes on a day the home ministry made the Aadhaar number mandatory for registration of death with effect from October 1, 2017.
Applicants unaware of the Aadhaar number or Enrolment ID of the deceased will be required to provide a certificate that the deceased person does not possess Aadhaar number to the best of their knowledge
The Supreme Court today said that there has to be "overarching" guidelines to protect an individual's private information in public domain to ensure that it was used only for an intended purpose
The deadline was extended after some complaints that the taxpayers are not being able to log on to the e-filing website of Income Tax Department or not being able to link Aadhaar with PAN.
The government has no plans to make Aadhaar number mandatory for booking air tickets, Parliament's Standing Committee on Home Affairs has been told
Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that since privacy was multifaceted, it could not be treated as a fundamental right.
The Centre on Wednesday conceded in the Supreme Court that right to privacy may be considered as a fundamental right under the Constitution, but many facets relating to it cannot be put under the fundamental rights category
Simplifying the passport rules for Indian citizens further, the government informed the Parliament that it has done away with the mandatory furnishing of birth certificate to get a passport
A large proportion of taxpayers filed their returns manually, via snail mail, rather than getting an Aadhaar card. Several others filed their returns online early, before June 30, when the Aadhaar linkage was not compulsory
Supreme Court's 9-judge Constitution bench is hearing to determine whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution.
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