New Delhi: The government will push for passage of a long-pending bill to provide statutory status to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the winter session of Parliament.
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New Delhi: Aadhaar card is not mandatory to avail of subsidies under government schemes including on domestic cooking gas, the government on Friday said in the Rajya Sabha.
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Bengaluru: Nandan Nilekani’s big idea, the Aadhaar number, is gaining both adherents and “allies” as the numbers of people with a unique identity grow rapidly – some 800,000 to a million people are e

Aadhaar enrolment centres across the city are ruled by brokers while officials of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the civil supplies department remain mute spectators.

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Electronic cash transfers will be based on Aadhaar (Unique Identification Number) platform. The entire country is targeted to be covered by the end of 2013.

Rejecting the Opposition charge that the

When the second phase of Aadhaar project rolls out across 21 districts in the State in October, it might leave out a large chunk of people – a huge population of migrants and refugees in Bengaluru and

The Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) may be rolling out Aadhaar cards at a fast pace and Union and state governments may be planning to make them mandatory to avail

The ongoing conflict between the Plan panel and the Home Ministry over issuance of chip-based smart cards to all residents was put to rest on Friday as the government cleared the UIDAI's proposal to e

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday defended the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) Adhaar project stating that it was an important national project

He may be under attack from all sides, within government and outside of it, but Nandan Nilekani, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, isn’t about to let his detractors win.

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