Supreme Court strikes down a section of Aadhaar Act which allows mobile companies, banks and schools to demand Aadhaar.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday...
Individual rights need protection from both state and private digital players. The Srikrishna Committee draft bill recognises one dangerous actor but seems to have forgotten the other.
Justice B.N. Srikrishna committee wants journalists to follow ethical standards set by media associations and make a public commitment to this effect.
New Delhi: The Justice B.N....
Days before Supreme Court judgement on privacy, health and railway ministries had raised concerns over sharing citizens’ details for the new database.
Before the Supreme...
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Hopefully, Justice Chandrachud’s minority view that recourse to the Money Bill route was wrong will serve as a note of caution. Like the Mauritius route, a lot of dodgy stuff has been getting through, with the Speaker playing along …
The apex court has struck a fair balance. Indiscriminate recourse to Aadhaar – mobiles, bank accounts, etc – has been struck down. What should worry the government is that this programme is falling flat even on its most basic duty, viz, to prevent misuse or diversion under welfare / subsidy programmes such as the PDS. Recently, in a case from Uttar Pradesh, as many as 1.8 lac fraudulent transactions for diversion of food grains have come to light. It is also now clear that the data bases are easily hacked into.
Hopefully, Justice Chandrachud’s minority view that recourse to the Money Bill route was wrong will serve as a note of caution. Like the Mauritius route, a lot of dodgy stuff has been getting through, with the Speaker playing along …
Justice Chandrachud is a fine jurist. Far sighted, genuinely liberal, reflects the aspirations of a changing society.
The apex court has struck a fair balance. Indiscriminate recourse to Aadhaar – mobiles, bank accounts, etc – has been struck down. What should worry the government is that this programme is falling flat even on its most basic duty, viz, to prevent misuse or diversion under welfare / subsidy programmes such as the PDS. Recently, in a case from Uttar Pradesh, as many as 1.8 lac fraudulent transactions for diversion of food grains have come to light. It is also now clear that the data bases are easily hacked into.