-The Indian Express Official sources told The Indian Express that the database will contain more than 4.5 lakh cases, including profiles of first-time and repeat offenders, based on details compiled from prisons across the country. India is all set to roll out the National Registry of Sexual Offenders on Thursday, and will become the ninth country in the world to set up and maintain such a database. The Indian registry will...
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Aadhaar data 'edited' to pilfer public distribution system ration in UP -Rohan Dua
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: By replacing Aadhaar data of public distribution system (PDS) beneficiaries with those of impostors, fraudsters carried out almost 1.86 lakh transactions to pilfer 2.2 lakh tonnes of wheat and sugar in July this year, an internal probe by the state government has found. However, Aadhaar numbers and biometric records of no genuine beneficiary were compromised. UIDAI sources confirmed that there was no breach in the Aadhaar system...
More »If India Produces More Foodgrains Than It Needs, Why Are People Still Starving? -Aditi Goyal
-TheWire.in It is set law that procedures cannot impact vested substantive rights – and the right to life and correspondingly, food, is the most substantive of all rights. “After a prolonged decline, world hunger appears to be on the rise again”, claims a report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2017)’ by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN. Nowhere is this more true than in...
More »'Don't share your Aadhaar number', says UIDAI after telecom authority chief's public challenge
-Scroll.in The Aadhaar authority said that sharing the unique ID is not in accordance with the law. The Unique Identification Authority of India on Tuesday issued a statement warning people against sharing their Aadhaar number on social media platforms or elsewhere, and posing challenges to others. The Aadhaar authority said that such activities are in contravention of the law. The warning follows Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairperson Ram Sewak Sharma’s act...
More »Biometric mix-up affects nearly 2 crore Aadhaar holders -Akram Mohammed
-The New Indian Express A recent internal communication between UIDAI officials had pegged that around 1 to 1.5% of all enrolments made in the last seven years have “mixed biometrics” BENGALURU: In February this year, a contract labourer in Raichur got his Aadhaar number after seven years of running from pillar to post. Mixing of his fingerprints with that of his son — for no mistake of his own — had cost...
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