-The Tribune Jalandhar: Exposing yet another chink in the UIDAI’s national identity card system, a private operator working at an aadhaar counter at the District Administration Complex here is found to have saved over 921 e-copies of aadhaar cards in his personal laptop. Since e-aadhaar is a valid document, it can be used for various purposes, including opening of bank accounts in aadhaar holder’s name that can used for illegal transactions. During a...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely extended the March 31 deadline for linking aadhaar to bank accounts and mobile phones and ordered that except for disbursing subsidies, the Centre and states cannot insist on aadhaar for any service, including issuance of passports. The extension will be in place till the court delivers its final judgment. A five-judge constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Tuesday's Supreme Court order extending the aadhaar-linking deadline indefinitely came after activist-lawyer Vrinda Grover had rushed in and challenged the authorities' decision to cancel her passport for not possessing an aadhaar card. The five-judge bench was in the middle of a scheduled hearing of public interest petitions against aadhaar's constitutionality. Grover said through senior advocate Arvind Datar that she had gone to the passport authorities here for the issuance...

-TheWire.in Food rights group says this is just a changing of goalposts, questions why rules have not been formulated and state food commission not constituted despite court nudge. New Delhi: Though in order to overcome the problem of exclusions faced due to aadhaar-linked Point of Sales (PoS) machines installed at ration shops, the Delhi cabinet today approved the scheme for doorstep delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System, food rights activists...

-PTI NEW DELHI: The deadline for mandatory linking of aadhaar to avail various services and welfare schemes run by the government may be further extended beyond March 31, the Centre indicated in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Centre said that since some more time would be needed to conclude the prolonged hearing in the aadhaar case, the government may extend the deadline from March 31. A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice...