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SC Rejects Pleas Seeking Review of 2018 Aadhaar Verdict
20 Jan 2021
Justice D Y Chandrachud, one of the five-judges of the bench, dissented with the majority verdict and said that the review petitions be kept pending until a larger bench decides the question related…
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Nearly Rs 5,000 Crore NREGA Wage Payments Rejected in Past 5 Years: Report
19 Nov 2020
Despite DBT, 45% of the respondent workers had to visit banks multiple times, mainly due to biometric glitches, while 57% reported their passbooks don't get updated.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Aadhaar Project Unconstitutional in Design and Implementation, Says Report
03 Oct 2020
The Aadhaar Tribunal jury expressed that a welfare state is constitutionally bound to provide benefits and services to citizens which cannot be made conditional either on a particular means of…
Newsclick Team
India, COVID and the Right to Food
15 Jul 2020
Professor Dipa Sinha, from Ambedkar University -Delhi (AUD) and the Right to Food Campaign-India, speaks on the impacts of the COVID lockdown in India on the food and nutrition status of the working…
Rosamma Thomas
Rajasthan HC Ruling puts Question Mark over ID Proof for Access to Services
23 Apr 2020
Even though Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act last year, there are no rules for its implementation as yet.
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: India’s National Social Registry and Kerala’s Response to the Coronavirus
20 Mar 2020
In this episode, we talk to Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava who has written a series of stories on the Modi government’s plan for a massive all-India database of citizens which has grave implications for…
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Brace Yourself, Govt Plans to Peek into Every Detail of Your Life
17 Mar 2020
The proposed National Social Registry, seeded by Aadhaar, is expected to be in place by 2022 and will be able to zero-in on details ranging from citizens’ movements to births, deaths and marriages in…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Delhi Violence: Activists Oppose Aadhaar in Compensation Forms
04 Mar 2020
With most of their possessions reduced to ash, scrambling for Aadhaar cards would be the last thing the victims need.
Newsclick Report
Nearly 88% of Cancelled Ration Cards in Jharkhand Were Genuine, Says Study
21 Feb 2020
The J-PAL study found only that about 12% of the cancelled cards belonged to “ghost” or fake beneficiaries.
Amey Tirodkar
Isalak, the David to a Goliath-Like Indian State, and its Struggles Against CAA-NRC
11 Feb 2020
With an unforeseen problem of proving their citizenship before them, the story of why a tiny village in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, passed a resolution against CAA-NRC.