New Delhi: Trouble and hardship is looming for those earning Rs 2.5 lakh per annum but have not provided PAN and Aadhaar details to the employer. This is consequent to the Income Tax Department asking employers to deduct 20 per cent salary as Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) from all employees who fail to furnish PAN […]
New Delhi: Aadhaar, hartal, chawl, dabba, hartal and shaadi are among the 26 new Indian-English words that have made it to the latest edition of the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (OALD). These new inclusions take the number of Indian-English words to 384 in the 10th edition of the dictionary which features a staggering 86,000 words, […]
New Delhi: Union Law Ministry has been working on a Cabinet note to prepare a new law after considering the Election Commission’s proposal to give it statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar numbers of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in the electoral rolls. The Ministry, sources said, is working to amend […]
New Delhi: The Income Tax (I-T) department has extended the deadline for linking PAN with Aadhaar by three months to March 31, 2020. As per earlier notification, the cut-off date was December 31, 2019 after it was extended for three months in September. “The due date for linking of PAN with Aadhaar as specified under sub-section […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre on a plea seeking examination of the constitutional validity of amended Aadhaar law and the associated regulations allowing private entities to use the unique identification as proof of identity for opening bank accounts and mobile phone connections. A bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde […]
New Delhi: The government has amended rules that will allow citizens to use their Aadhaar number for know-your-customer (KYC) requirements even if their current address does not match with the address mentioned in their Aadhaar card. Such people can now get their identities verified by using their Aadhaar card and get their KYC verified by proving […]
Lucknow: All urban properties in Uttar Pradesh will now be linked to the Aadhaar cards of the owners. The Yogi Adityanath government is preparing to implement the Urban Properties Ownership Record (UPOR) Scheme, on the pattern of Karnataka. “This scheme will help in identifying ‘benami’ properties, multiple properties and will also increase tax collection in […]
New Delhi: A public interest litigation was filed in the Supreme Court seeking to link social media sites including Twitter and Facebook with Aadhaar to weed out duplicate and fake accounts and control fake news. The plea has been filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay who has sought direction to the Central government to […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file an affidavit within three weeks detailing statutory guidelines to balance online privacy, state sovereignty and the reputation of an individual. A Bench, headed by Justice Deepak Gupta, gave the order while hearing a case on linking of Aadhaar with Facebook and regulating of […]
New Delhi: The Information Technology Ministry may not be in favour of linking Aadhaar with social media profiles under the reasoning that it clashes with earlier judgements on privacy and use of the biometric identification card has to be carefully thought over before any decision to let it be used on public platforms like social […]
