-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday refused to further extend the March 31 deadline for linking of Aadhaar with government schemes and benefits. This comes days after the SC ordered an indefinite extension to the March 31 deadline for mandatory linking of the biometric identifier with bank accounts and mobile phones. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said: "We will not pass any...
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Aadhaar frailties
-The Hindu Business Line The SC interim order presents the biometric ID as a fait accompli for the underprivileged Last week’s interim order of the Supreme Court on a batch of petitions challenging Aadhaar may have provided temporary relief to a section of the population, but it appears to have simultaneously served notice on another section – a largely disadvantaged one — that the contentious biometric identification is something of a fait...
More »Aadhaar can't be insisted upon for any service except subsidies: Supreme Court -Dhananjay Mahapatra and Amit Anand Choudhary
-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...
More »Farm distress and electoral outcomes -EA Ramaswamy
-The Hindu Business Line Gujarat result shows politicians and governments would pay attention to farmer woes only when they are hit where it hurts Agriculture is in the eye of the storm, and we must thank Gujarat elections for this turn of events. Agrarian distress is gaining eyeballs like never before. Farmers have tried all kinds of methods in the past, but to no avail. They committed suicide, but it didn’t matter....
More »Govt unlikely to table FRDI Bill in budget session of parliament
-PTI The joint committee on the FRDI Bill has been granted an extension of time up to the last day of Budget Session 2018, speaker Sumitra Mahajan informed the Lok Sabha New Delhi: The Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill, or FRDI Bill, may not be introduced in Parliament even during the budget session, as the joint committee looking into it got an extension for submitting its report. Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan...
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