The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Monday concerning Aadhaar card issuance. The petition seeks new Aadhaar cards only for children up to...

Ten years on, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has provided clean cooking fuel to over 10 crore women. This initiative has significantly i...

India's government has dropped a proposal to pre-install the Aadhaar app on smartphones. This decision follows opposition from smartphone m...

A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Supreme Court demands new Aadhaar cards be issued only to children under six. The petition also c...

Case filed in 2012 Karnataka HC former judge feared govt’s data gathering exercise would intrude into privacy of individuals

That, however, did not deter the former judge of the Karnataka High Court from continuing his fight against the controversial project.

The finance minister recalled that Nandan Nilekani gave a "forceful and persuasive" presentation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who decid...

BJP-led NDA gave it a legislative cover with iron wall to ensure data protection and privacy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

“The full potential of Aadhaar had not been realised at the time. There was no legislation, there was a draft law,” said Arun Jaitley.

About 42 per cent of households were unbanked before the Jan Dhan Yojana, which aims to give every household access to banking facilities.

The government, while opposing any stay on implementation of the Aadhaar scheme, said that around 115.15 crore people have already enrolled...

The Minister for Information Technology and Electronics sought to allay the opposition's fears that biometric and demographic data collecte...

Rejecting Rajya Sabha's five amendments, Lok Sabha passed the legislation that aims at better targeting of subsidies through the Aadhar.

The Bill that would make it essential for people to provide their unique identity number for availing government benefits was introduced on...

The Aadhaar Bill is all set to make the Aadhaar number mandatory for availing subsidy benefits of any government scheme, contrary to SC rul...

The move when passed will provide much needed backing to the scheme which has been several petitions filed in the country questioning its v...

Government is likely to introduce legislations on Aadhaar and bankruptcy code as money bills with a view to ensuring their smooth passage i...