Modi's plans to make ministers redundant

The prime minister's office will play the principal role in decision-making. Rediff.com contributor Renu Mittal reports. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is consolidating power and decision-making in......

Be very afraid of the biometric regime

There are unprecedented political implications of identification based on 'biological attributes of an individual,' such as employed by Aadhaar, warns Gopal Krishna. On April 20, an order was......

NRC, NPR, Aadhaar are part of huge surveillance plan

'This updated NPR database along with Aadhaar Number would become the mother database and can be used by various government departments...' the home ministry declared in July 2015.'UID/Aadhaar has......

After losing their seats, Congress MPs set to lose their houses

Still to recover from their electoral rout, defeated Congress members of Parliament and ministers are now faced with the heart-wrenching job of moving out of their official houses, says Rediff.com......

UID: Govt okays iris scan, fingerprinting

The government on Tuesday gave in-principle approval for adoption of standardised approach for collection of demographic and biometric attributes, including iris scan, of residents by various......

Government appoints Ajay Bhushan Pandey as UIDAI chief

Government on Thursday promoted DG and Mission Director of Unique Identification Authority of India Ajay Bhushan Pandey its chief executive officer. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has......

Government adopts UPA's Aadhaar Bill

  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......

Aadhaar gets a second life from Modi

Image: Nandan Nilekani headed the Aadhaar project under the United Progressive Alliance government. Photograph: Reuters The government has linked seven projects to Aadhaar despite the National......