In the first phase this year, 1.2 crore people in about 3,331 coastal villages and cities would receive the cards.
Government proposes to prepare a National Population Register on the basis of the pilot project on Multi-purpose National Identity Card.
The Rs 2,000-crore project to bring all 16,000 police stations in the country under a single network to counter terror challenges will become operational by 2011-12, said Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday.
'Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the decisions taken by my government in the national interest,' President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to both Houses of Parliament.
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Cyber security sleuths have alerted Indian internet users against hacking attempts of a clandestine multi-identity virus -Bladabindi -- which steals sensitive personal information of a user for nefarious purposes.
The virus possesses a unique ability to acquire a safe network domain id in order to falsely add itself to the firewall exclusion list and bypass a user's firewall mechanism.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.