Bengaluru: Nandan Nilekani’s big idea, the Aadhaar number, is gaining both adherents and “allies” as the numbers of people with a unique identity grow rapidly – some 800,000 to a million people are e

The unique identification project was initially conceived by the Planning Commission as an initiative that would provide identification for each resident across the country and would be used primarily

In a significant move, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday agreed, in principle, to link four schemes of the Karnataka government to Aadhaar cards to be issued in 21 distr

Government has given nod to the project to merge Aadhaar and PAN databases in order to weed out the problem of fake PAN cards and to ensure an accurate biometric data.

The Nandan Nilekani-led Unique

If you have been waiting to get that 12-digit wonder number, buck up. The Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is rolling out Phase II of Aadhaar enrolment on April 25. The Government of Karnatak

To overcome the problem of inordinate delay in dispatch of Aadhaar cards to lakhs of people in the state, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India has decided to send Aadhaar unique id

Three districts in Andhra Pradesh — Ranga Reddy, East Godavari and Anantapur — have been selected for the implementation of ‘Aadhaar card-based payments’ for various government schemes within six mon

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday defended the Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) Adhaar project stating that it was an important national project

He may be under attack from all sides, within government and outside of it, but Nandan Nilekani, chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, isn’t about to let his detractors win.

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At a time when Home Ministry and Planning Commission are at loggerheads over carrying out bio-metric collections for the Unique Identification Number project, BJP on Saturday demanded that the mandate