News for 'Aadhaar Bill'

Parliament on Monday passed an amendment bill which allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as proof of identity for users to open bank accounts and get mobile phone connections. The Aadhaar and...

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has moved the Supreme Court challenging the decision to treat Aadhaar Bill as a money bill, which was passed during Budget session last month, overruling...

If a citizen chooses not to use Aadhaar as the default unique identity, then other unique identity proofs masked and linked to Aadhaar would be used. Photograph: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   The...

The Congress on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict striking down certain provisions of the Aadhaar scheme, terming it a 'slap' on the Bharatiya Janata Party's face, and said it will...

'The Election Commission is conducting the National Register of Citizens in Bihar through the backdoor.' IMAGE: Bihar Chief Electoral Officer Vinod Singh Gunjiyal, along with Election Commission...

  With hardly any changes, legislation under fire from critics sceptical of the necessity of collecting data to provide services The Aadhaar Bill that the National Democratic Alliance...

The UIDAI, set up in 2009, will manage the generation and authentication of Aadhaar numbers.  The government could introduce a regulatory framework to ensure that the biometric details of...

The government considers the Aadhaar bill as a significant instrument for implementing its Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes by better targeting of beneficiaries. Image: Jaitley said that the...

The Congress and the Left parties might move court to challenge LS speaker's ruling on Aadhaar as money Bill. Image: It is rare in the history of Parliament for the Upper House to have...

UPI has catapulted India into the forefront on the global digital payments landscape. Working hand in hand, the AePS payments system is making life easy for rural folks, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay....