MGNREGA scheme: A significant Rs 17,370.58 crore has been carried forward over to the next financial year as unpaid dues as demand for work continued unabated for the scheme in rural areas.
As a registrar, SBI will collect both demographic and biometric information of the bank's 170 million account holders.
The 30-minute auto loan is available for HDFC Bank customers, as well as others.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has decided to have details of face, iris and ten finger prints as a necessary requirement for registration of residents.
Speaking at a function to release 'Annual Status of Education Report' of NGO Pratham, Nilekani said that UIDAI wants to use technology for better delivery in education.
An Israeli scientist has revealed security holes in America's passports and "smart cards".
"Applicants for residence visa will be fingerprinted under a tighter biometric system to provide more secure identification and prevent fraud," major general Nasser Al Awadi Al Minhali, acting director-general of the Federal Naturalisation and Residency Department, told the Gulf News.
The bank will join the UIDAI, an ambitious plan to provide unique identification number to all residents of the country, in collecting biometric and demographic details of its customers as well as others.
In a draft document of the authority, the UIDAI has identified three transaction types. The basic ID confirmation will be free, where potential user agencies could be, for instance, the airlines which do passenger check-ins.
Though, a counter terrorism white paper released by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today did not name the countries, which will be covered by the new rules, security experts have been quoted by The Herald Sun as saying that Pakistan is "high on the list".
The new notes will be available from 2012.
Seeking to make track and field dope free, Athletics Federation of India on Sunday decided to prepare its own 'whereabouts' information and collect samples from suspected athletes anytime and from anywhere in the country.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah has requested the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to include the state for the pilot project 'Aadhar' as it was ready with the resident data.
Trying to allay the apprehensions expressed on the use of eye scan in preparation of unique number to all residents of the country, the Unique Idenditifcation Authority of India (UIDAI) has come out with a status paper on collecting iris biometrics.
Aadhaar, or the 12-digit unique identification (UID) number that will identify the 1.2 billion residents of the country on the basis of their biometrics, will have an additional four digits that will be hidden from the common man.
After acquiring Grama Vidiyal Microfinance last year, IDFC Bank is looking for opportunities to strengthen its retail capabilities, says Rajiv Lall, its chief,
'No government will forego the usage of data of this order and nor will any private concern.' 'Unless, of course, there are strong safeguards to privacy.' 'Which is why that nine-member Supreme Court bench could make or mar everybody's future,' says Devangshu Datta.
Rival political parties crossed swords even as the BJP sought to delink the updation of the NPR and the proposed NRC and no end in sight for the ongoing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The US Congress has imposed a special fee of up to $4,500 on the H-1B and L-1 visas.
Though chief executive officers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have declined to attend the summit, the Apple CEO Tim Cook will address the meeting during which he will announce his intent to fold the government's cyber security recommendations into its own cyber strategy.
The Unique Identification Authority of India may take all 10 fingerprints, besides an eye scan, of all residents in rural India to avoid loss of physical identification due to harsh working conditions.
The Centre on Tuesday said it was discussing with state governments the preparations for updating the National Population Register from April 1 to September 30. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said in the Lok Sabha that no document will be collected during the exercise, which will be carried out along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021.
While no exact dates have been announced yet, the flights could take off from San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Washington DC, the officials said.
Senior counsel, Diwedi submitted that technology is advancing and we have limitations of understanding the technological developments.
An all-out war had erupted on Twitter on Saturday after TRAI chief gave out his Aadhaar number, challenging anyone to show how mere knowledge of the number can be misused to harm him, triggering a deluge of tweets that claimed to disclose his personal details -- from PAN to mobile number.
A Krishna Kumar, deputy managing director (IT) of the bank, said on the sidelines of Infocom in Kolkata, "Given the reach of the facility, we expect the number to double within a year."
A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose said, "At this stage we do not know whether we could decide this issue or the high court will decide."
He said the ministry understands that some flexibility is needed but whoever comes late will have to work that much time extra. There are about 2,700 employees in the home ministry of which 1,500 work in the North Block premises.
In an effort to check forgeries and misuse of passports, the government is rolling out e-passports that will carry biometric information in a chip.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) set up recently by the government, will establish an online data base with identity and biometric details of Indian residence and provide enrolment and verification services across the country.
The report warns that it is possible for terrorists to fake documents such as passports and entry visas to cross international borders.
'I have no keys to my house; it works on biometrics and electronic identification.' 'Every time anyone enters, the camera captures it and I get a message on my phone.'
The government will push for the passage of a long-pending bill to provide statutory status to the Unique Identification Authority of India in the winter session of Parliament.
Mastercard is keen on being known not as a payments player but a technology company.
Several hundred Indian firms that manufacture or assemble Rs 10,000 crore worth of aerospace components annually for manufacturers like Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopters now face disruptions relating to covid-19.
Be it a terrorist attack, mass tragedy or police verification, this bank can be of great use for security agencies and doctors. Combining Biometric, anthropology and information technology together, Asia's first human DNA Bank has been set up in Biotech Park of Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.
The deadline for linking PAN with Aadhaar for taxpayers was to end on Thursday.
The study was published in the journal Neurocomputing.
Nilekani noted that India is hardly doing USD 10-15 billion worth of e-commerce transactions a year and that's going to grow in 4-5 years to anywhere between USD 60 and 100 billion.
An agency which helps Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) enroll citizens for Aadhar has over enthusiastic shared the personal details of ace cricket Mahendra Singh Dhoni on social media.
