Mumbai | Mumbai Police have arrested a 23-year-old youth for marrying a minor girl after allegedly tampering with her real date of birth on her Aadhaar card to prove she is a major, officials said here on Thursday. The fraud came to light after the youth and the girl got married on April 11 at the […]
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Aadhaar unites 21-year-old specially-abled man, missing for 6 years, with family
New Delhi | Aadhaar has united a 21-year-old specially-abled man, missing since 2016 from Bihar, with his family. The man, identified through Aadhaar, was found in Nagpur in Maharashtra. The youth went missing in November 2016 from Khagaria district of Bihar. The disabled man (deaf and dumb) was traced via Aadhaar in Nagpur in August 2022. […]
Govt issues clarification on Aadhaar card usage
New Delhi | The UIDAI on Sunday clarified that Aadhaar has features for protecting and safeguarding the identity and privacy of the holder. The clarification comes in the wake of the press release dated May 27, 2022 by the Bengaluru Regional Office, UIDAI, which had advised not to give photocopy of Aadhaar card to anyone […]
Non-linking of PAN-Aadhaar by March 31 to attract penalty
New Delhi | Non-linking of PAN with Aadhaar number by March 31, 2022 would attract a penalty, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. As per the Ministry, non-linking of PAN-Aadhaar will lead to a penalty of Rs 500 up to three months from April 1, 2022 and a fee of Rs 1,000 thereafter. Nevertheless, the […]
Aadhaar card reunites speech impaired boy with his mother after 6 years
Bengaluru | In a joint operation, authorities in Karnataka and Maharashtra managed to reunite a speech impaired boy with his mother after six years with the help of fingerprints on an Aadhaar card. The boy, B. Bharath Kumar, had gone missing in 2016 from a market when his mother, Parvathamma, was selling vegetables. Parvathamma had lodged […]
SC notice on plea for making Aadhaar not mandatory for getting Covid vaccine
New Delhi | The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a plea seeking directions to not insist on the production of Aadhaar card as the only proof of identification for Covid-19 vaccination. A bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud asked the counsel for the petitioner, “Don’t go by newspaper articles. Have […]
Deadline for PAN-Aadhaar linkage extended till March 2022
New Delhi | Centre has extended the deadline for linking Aadhaar with PAN by six more months, till March 2022. The earlier deadline was till September 30. Accordingly, the decision came as a relief measure for tax players during pandemic era. “The Central Government, in continuation of its commitment to address the hardship being faced by […]
No denial of vaccine or essential services for want of Aadhaar: UIDAI
New Delhi | The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Saturday said in a statement that no one will be denied vaccine, medicine, hospitalisation or treatment for want of Aadhaar. The statement has come in the present Covid-19 pandemic situations against certain reports suggesting that vaccination and a few other essential services like hospitalisation were […]
Deadline for Aadhaar-PAN linking extended till Jun 30
New Delhi | In a relief for taxpayers, the Centre has again extended the deadline for linking of Aadhaar number with the Permanent Account Number (PAN) till June 30 this year. The previous deadline ended on Wednesday, March 31. In a tweet, the Income Tax Department said that the decision has been taken in the wake […]
Higher TDS if PAN not linked with Aadhaar by today
New Delhi | As per the directives of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), it is mandatory for all Permanent Account Number (PAN) card holders to link their Aadhaar with PAN on or before March 31. ‘If your Aadhaar is not linked then your PAN will be considered inoperative and this will have an impact […]