Home Ministry to assist UIDAI in bio-metric data-collection

As per the Union Cabinet, the Home Ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will together collect biometric data of 1.2 billion Indians. What was the issue? Home Ministry and the UIDAI were debating over the issue of ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Current Affairs : January 27-28, 2012

IGNOU bags best teaching practices award The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has received an award for the best teaching practices at the India Today Aspire Education Summit 2012. India, Canada take vow to fasttrack CEPA On the sidelines ..

Month: Current Affairs - February, 2012

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Conflict b/w UIDAI and NPR resolved

To end the conflict b/w the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and National Population Register, a Cabinet Committee has worked out a halfway house which will lead in the Biometric Data of all residents of India being captured by ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Current Affairs: August 3, 2011

Brahmasree Malliyoor Sankaran Namboothiri passed away Eminent Sanskrit scholar and Bhagavatham proponent Malliyoor Sankaran Namboothiri passed away in Kuruppanthara, near Kottayam ‘Bhagavata-Hamsam’ Brahmasree Malliyoor Shankaran Namboothiri (91) was a well known proponent of ritual narration of Bhagavatam-stories Obama Signs Bill ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2011

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Current Affairs – July 8, 2011

‘News of the World’ Shut down ‘News of the World’: A British tabloid The tabloid shuts after 168 years of print following bedlam over phone hacking First edition: October 1, 1843 News International: Umbrella Company of the News Corporation’s British ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2011