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Govt grants patent to Bengaluru firm for first-of-its-kind system to manage Aadhaar data

Soumya Pillai - July 8, 2024

SISA says its newly patented system will help streamline automated detection, masking, and secure management of Aadhaar data across various platforms without user intervention.

Govt’s information wing cautions against sharing Aadhaar copy, retracts note 48 hours later

Regina Mihindukulasuriya - May 29, 2022

PIB's 27 May note had advised the general public not to share a photocopy of one’s Aadhaar with any unlicensed private entities.

Election Commission proposes making paid news and false affidavits electoral offences

PTI - February 18, 2020

CEC Sunil Arora, Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra also discussed linking of voters list or electoral roll with Aadhaar numbers to clean up duplicate entries.

Supreme Court transfers all pending social media-Aadhaar linking cases to itself

PTI - October 22, 2019

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to submit a report in January on the notification of rules by which social media misuse can be checked.

Linking Aadhaar with voter ID — Election Commission to decide within weeks

Sanya Dhingra - July 19, 2019

EC is in favour of the idea, but studying how recent amendments to Aadhaar Act may affect this linkage, says official.

Review petition in Supreme Court wants Aadhaar verdict re-examined

PTI - December 24, 2018

The petition has also sought an open court hearing in the matter.

Supreme Court’s balancing act on Aadhaar, and adultery law’s fall

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee - September 27, 2018

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Supreme Court to deliver landmark Aadhaar verdict tomorrow

Ritika Jain - September 25, 2018

Supreme Court will decide if Aadhaar is a breach of one’s right to privacy, and if the govt can make it compulsory for benefits & services.

Lucknow medical institute server not secure, ripe for data theft, says expert

Regina Mihindukulasuriya - September 6, 2018

Ethical hacker says server allows access to Aadhaar, PAN cards, and details of organ donors and recipients among others.

Aadhaar, 377, Babri: CJI Misra has to deliver 10 landmark judgments in 18 working days

Ritika Jain - September 3, 2018

Misra is just a month away from the end of his controversial tenure, but in that he could well alter India’s future.

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Keshav Padmanabhan - July 15, 2025

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

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Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export

Snehesh Alex Philip - July 18, 2025

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta - July 19, 2025

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.