Government

25 Jan 2018

24 Jan 2018

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was today found guilty in the third fodder scam case, for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs33.67 crore from Chaibasa treasury in 1992-1993

23 Jan 2018

India was ranked 62nd among 74 emerging economies on World Economic Forum's Inclusive Development Index, well behind all its BRICS peers and even Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal

23 Jan 2018

The Supreme Court will examine all cases related to the death of Justice Loya, while transferring to itself two cases field in the Bombay high court seeking an SIT probe into the death of the judge, who hearing a controversial encounter death

22 Jan 2018

A former joint secretary in the ministry of defence, Om Prakash Rawat was appointed an Election Commissioner in August 2015. He will be the 22nd Chief Election Commissioner of India

22 Jan 2018

18 Jan 2018

While the petitioners raised objections on the scale of the project, its intent, and the actual legality of the Aadhaar architecture, the bench wondered why it can’t be used to plug leaks in social welfare schemes

17 Jan 2018

16 Jan 2018

With Aadhaar set to get new features including facial recognition, talks are on with the concerned authorities on whether the 31 March deadline for linking it to various services needs to be extended

15 Jan 2018

15 Jan 2018

There is a growing body of evidence that the government’s stringent Aadhaar requirements may be depriving millions of Indians of essential services and also leaving them vulnerable to fraud. By Jagdeep Worah

13 Jan 2018

13 Jan 2018

12 Jan 2018

12 Jan 2018

Addressing the media, four of the most senior judges of the Supreme Court after the Chief Justice— Justices J Chelameswar, Kurian Joseph, Ranjan Gogoi and Madan Lokur — say the SC needs to be preserved if democracy were to survive in the country

12 Jan 2018

The Supreme Court has set up a three-member special investigation team (SIT) headed by former Delhi High Court judge Justice S N Dhingra to supervise a further probe into 186 cases from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

11 Jan 2018

10 Jan 2018

In a bid to address privacy concerns, UIDAI today introduced `Virtual IDs’ for Aadhaar-card holders, enabling them to generate IDs from its website for various uses, including SIM verification, instead of sharing the actual 12-digit biometric ID

10 Jan 2018

Asking if everyone ‘should wear our patriotism on our sleeves’, the Supreme Court ruled that it would be up to theatre owners whether or not to play the national anthem before screening a film

10 Jan 2018

‘For the first time … there is a readily available single target for cyber criminals as well as India’s external enemies’, says a white paper by an arm of the RBI, while also flagging that the economic benefits of Aadhaar are unclear

09 Jan 2018

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower on the US National Security Agency’s global surveillance programme, has come out strongly in support of the Indian journalist who exposed the easy accessibility of Aadhaar data, and who now faces police action for his efforts

08 Jan 2018

The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has registered a First Information Report against The Tribune newspaper and its reporter Rachna Khaira after the paper published a story on the ease with which anyone’s Aadhaar data could be obtained via WhatsApp

08 Jan 2018

Lalu Prasad has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail and Rs5 lakh penalty in one of the 1996 fodder scam cases

05 Jan 2018

Edward Snowden, the man who blew the whistle on the US National Security Agency’s global surveillance programme, sees India’s Aadhaar system as “abuse” that is an outcome of the natural tendency of governments to keep tabs on citizens

05 Jan 2018