National Identity Cards

National Voters' Day 2024: On National Voters' Day, new voters are felicitated and handed over their Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC).

The government today withdrew a warning not to share photocopies of the national biometric identity card Aadhaar after the announcement caused widespread panic on social media.

A Chinese national has been arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly transferring huge amount of funds through online bank accounts opened with SIM cards procured against fake identity documents.

The Election Commission of India will formally launch the e-EPIC (Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card) programme on January 25, the National Voter's Day.

Pakistan has cancelled about 200,000 computerised national identity cards (CNICs) fraudulently held by Afghanistan refugees.

Taking a cue from India's Aadhaar initiative, Malaysia wants to bring changes in its national identity card system for target delivery of welfare schemes and government subsidies to avoid duplicity and fraud.

Sixteen Bangladeshi nationals were arrested while another four children detained in Mathura for illegally residing, police said yesterday, adding that they were found in possession of several government identity cards, including Aadhaar.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the government's Aadhaar scheme is"constitutionally valid" but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.The top court have its verdict on 27 petitions that challenged the constitutional validity of the national identity card and called ...

As Aadhaar was declared constitutionally valid with conditions by a majority verdict of the Supreme Court, one of the five judges said the national identity card scheme, in its current form, cannot be held to be constitutional. "Allowing private players to use Aadhaar will lead to profiling which could be used to ascertain political views of citize...

The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...

Aadhaar empowers marginalised sections of the society and gives them identity, which outweighs the harm, Supreme Court said, pronouncing the national identity card "constitutionally valid" in response to petitions raising violation of privacy. "One can't throw the baby out with the bathwater," said the judges, which asserted that private parties ca...

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

Pakistani authorities have suspended the national identity card and passport of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on orders by a special court hearing a treason case against him, acccording to a media report.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry has asked for the suspension of former President Pervez Musharraf's computerised national identity card (CNIC) and passport, a media report said on Friday.

You wouldn't know it watching him take care of his chickens on the family farm, but according to his birth certificate and official Mexican ID, Manuel Garcia Hernandez is 121 years old. Garcia, who may just be the world's oldest man, was born on 24 December 1896, according to his birth certificate from the Mexican state of Veracruz and his official...

National Voters' Day 2024: On National Voters' Day, new voters are felicitated and handed over their Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC).

The government today withdrew a warning not to share photocopies of the national biometric identity card Aadhaar after the announcement caused widespread panic on social media.

A Chinese national has been arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly transferring huge amount of funds through online bank accounts opened with SIM cards procured against fake identity documents.

The Election Commission of India will formally launch the e-EPIC (Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card) programme on January 25, the National Voter's Day.

Pakistan has cancelled about 200,000 computerised national identity cards (CNICs) fraudulently held by Afghanistan refugees.

Taking a cue from India's Aadhaar initiative, Malaysia wants to bring changes in its national identity card system for target delivery of welfare schemes and government subsidies to avoid duplicity and fraud.

Sixteen Bangladeshi nationals were arrested while another four children detained in Mathura for illegally residing, police said yesterday, adding that they were found in possession of several government identity cards, including Aadhaar.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the government's Aadhaar scheme is"constitutionally valid" but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.The top court have its verdict on 27 petitions that challenged the constitutional validity of the national identity card and called ...

As Aadhaar was declared constitutionally valid with conditions by a majority verdict of the Supreme Court, one of the five judges said the national identity card scheme, in its current form, cannot be held to be constitutional. "Allowing private players to use Aadhaar will lead to profiling which could be used to ascertain political views of citize...

The Supreme Court today said that the Aadhaar scheme which collects biometric data from every citizen and assigns a national identity card to them does not violate the right to privacy and is constitutionally valid. The government, which has been arguing for the mandatory use of Aadhaar for all major transactions, has said that it holds that privac...

Aadhaar empowers marginalised sections of the society and gives them identity, which outweighs the harm, Supreme Court said, pronouncing the national identity card "constitutionally valid" in response to petitions raising violation of privacy. "One can't throw the baby out with the bathwater," said the judges, which asserted that private parties ca...

A decision on whether Aadhaar, or the national identity card, violates the Constitution, will be declared by five senior most judges of the Supreme Court today. For a record 38 days, the Supreme Court heard some 27 petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar and called it a violation of the right to privacy of citizens.

Pakistani authorities have suspended the national identity card and passport of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on orders by a special court hearing a treason case against him, acccording to a media report.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry has asked for the suspension of former President Pervez Musharraf's computerised national identity card (CNIC) and passport, a media report said on Friday.

You wouldn't know it watching him take care of his chickens on the family farm, but according to his birth certificate and official Mexican ID, Manuel Garcia Hernandez is 121 years old. Garcia, who may just be the world's oldest man, was born on 24 December 1896, according to his birth certificate from the Mexican state of Veracruz and his official...