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Rahul Gandhi tried hard for a pro-UPA statement, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee focused on cash transfer to people to kickstart the economy
Abhijit Banerjee stated that many people are still left out of welfare schemes and for that the governments should take the risk of corruption and misappropriation and just make funds available to local authorities so they can distribute money to the people who need it.
Activists accuse police of doing “illegal cordon and search” after fraudulently obtained Aadhaar cards recovered in Telangana
The Telangana police have come under the scanner of privacy activists for its "cordon and search operations"
Union government to link Aadhaar with Election ID cards to weed out bogus entries, to introduce ‘remote’ voting for migrant voters
Government proposes to link Aadhaar with Election Identity cards to remove bogus and duplicate entries
UIDAI refutes media reports, says notice issued to 127 alleged illegal immigrants and has nothing to do with proof of citizenship
In a series of tweets, the UIDAI clarified that no such notices have been issued to people to prove their citizenship as Aadhaar is not a document of citizenship.
Record number of Income Tax Return filed in a single day, I-T dept to issue PAN if ITR filed with only Aadhaar
The dept will allot a fresh PAN to a person who files I-T Returns (ITR) with only Aadhaar as part of a new arrangement to link the two databases
Illegal Rohingya immigrants reach as far as Ladakh, agencies suspect local support
The security agencies had warned the center and the state governments of a possible mass movement of Rohingyas from the northeastern states.
Digital security company apologises for false report on ‘Aadhar data breach’
Gemalto had published a report this month claiming 1.2 billion records in Aadhar database have been compromised.
Despite High Court order, Delhi government schools seek voter ID and Aadhaar details of parents of students
Earlier, the DoE had issued a circular on September 11 seeking voter id and Aadhar details of parents of all the students.
Aadhar judgement has not gone far enough: NITI Ayog CEO
The apex court should have asked the centre for guidelines instead of scrapping section 57, says Amitabh Kant
Did anti-Aadhar brigade lose interest in Cambridge Analytica because Congress’ name came up?
We will never know if Cambridge Analytica actually stole data for the Congress Party
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