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SC declines interim stay on linking Aadhaar with bank accounts, mobiles

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Constitution Bench of SC to take up all Aadhaar-related pleas in the last week of November LATEST NEWS :  The Supreme Court on Friday refused to place an interim stay on mandatory linking of Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts and mobile telecom services, saying all Aadhaar-related pleas will be taken up for final hearing by the court’s constitution Bench in the last week of November. The apex court issued a notice to the Centre on pleas challenging the government’s bid to get bank accounts and mobile numbers linked with Aadhaar . The Supreme Court also clarified that banks would have to indicate in their messages to customers that December 31 is the last date for linking of Aadhaar with accounts. The final date for linking of Aadhaar and mobile phones is February 6, 2018, and telecom service providers would have to inform their customers about this. Also read this : Amtek Auto zooms 20% as Bharat Forge participates in acquisition process

India's Aadhaar rivals growth of Windows, Android, Facebook: Satya Nadella

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Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people, rivaling the growth of other platform innovations LATEST NEWS : India's Aadhaar   identity   system   opponents   the   boom   of   different   platform   innovations   like   home windows , Android or   facebook , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has   said . Nadella, in his   book   'Hit Refresh', which   changed into   launched   for the duration of   the continued   Microsoft Ignite 2017   conference , has praised India's   leap   forward   in the   digital   and technological   area . "Aadhaar now has scaled to over   one thousand million   humans , rivaling the   increase   of   different   platform   improvements which includes   windows , Android or   fb , the 50- yr - vintage   wrote in his   ebook   that hit the   book ...

'Aadhaar-less citizens can be eliminated': Fears around misuse by state coming true

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Social activist Shabnam recorded a policeman telling her those without Aadhaar could be 'eliminated' LATEST NEWS : If the threats made by one police officer in Delhi are true, the government seems to have launched a ‘surround and eliminate’ campaign against people whose addresses are not known and who do not possess Aadhaar numbers or cards . Incredible though it sounds, a police officer told social activist Shabnam Hashmi that this is now a standing instruction to all police stations. Moreover, the officer –  accused of threatening and abusing Hashmi when she called him on the night of July 14 to know why the husband of a woman, who learns stitching at a training centre run by the NGO Pehchan at Jaitpur in south-east Delhi, had been summoned at a late hour – insisted that police personnel were well within their rights to act in this way. The police may brush aside this assertion as the concerned officer’s personal opinion, or they may choose to even deny the veraci...