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Last Updated: 2009-11-14T13:52:58+05:30
Infosys co-founder and the chief of India's Unique Identification Database Authority, Nandan Nilekani, will help in improving Bihar’s e-governance system.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar revealed at a function in Patna on Friday that Nilekani will be visiting Patna on November 17 ... |
Last Updated: 2009-11-13T17:06:49+05:30
Personalization is possible in every aspect possible, including your mobile numbers or car numbers, but when it comes to Unique Identification Number, this option is not a feasible one. This has been clarified by UID Chief Nandan Nilekani, while addressing the BangaloreIT.Biz 2009 conference in ... |
Last Updated: 2009-11-04T10:42:19+05:30
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who now leads the Unique Identification Database Authority of the nation, will become the first India to be honoured with the Legend in Leadership Award of Yale University.
The award of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute will be presented to ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-31T08:48:49+05:30
Unique Identity Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani has mentioned that the first unique identity of India will be issued in 2010.
"According to the present status of the project, the first UID issuance will take 12 to 18 months from the date of sanction of the project in ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-16T12:11:55+05:30
Government may be using all the 10 fingerprints or opt for iris scanning for gathering data during 2011 census for the National Population Register. This will make the access of data easier for the Unique Identification Number project.
The Unique Identification Number (UID) scheme, which ... |
Last Updated: 2009-10-15T12:18:49+05:30
UID chief Nandan Nilekani has urged India to come up with a ‘policy on privacy’ stressing that it is important because of increasing fear of people about disclosing personal details in public.
The issue of privacy came up when Nileknai was asked about data related to ... |
Last Updated: 2009-09-27T18:10:44+05:30
Unique Identification Authority chief Nandan Nilekani said on Saturday that mobile phones will be used for verifying the credentials of a person. The mobile numbers will now be used for authentication at the banks, for availing gas connection as well as while looking out for rural ... |
Last Updated: 2009-09-03T10:03:26+05:30
Unique Identification Authority of India Chief, Nandan Nilekani, has announced that the UID will be made available for the Delhi citizens within a span of three years.
"Delhi as a state is much ahead in this respect than other states. With utilisation of this database (of Mission ... |
Last Updated: 2009-07-23T16:28:31+05:30

Nandan Nilekani assumed his position as the chairman of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India today and started work on the government's ambitious project to provide a single identity number and card to each of the country's 1.17 billion people.
Nilekani, who met the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-07-23T09:49:04+05:30

Nandan Mohan Nilekani will formally assume the position as the chairperson of the newly formed Unique Identity Authority at Yojana Bhavan, the headquarters of the Planning Commission, in New Delhi on Thursday.
Nilekani, 54, will enjoy the rank of a cabinet minister.
The authority ... |
Last Updated: 2009-07-15T11:30:59+05:30
The UID head, Nandan Nilekani, on Tuesday approached the petroleum and natural gas ministry to tap the massive database of oil and cooking gas consumers that covers nearly half the population. The ministry assured full cooperation to the former Infosys co-chairman.
Nilekani met the ... |
Last Updated: 2009-07-13T16:52:17+05:30
According to Nandan Nilekani, chairperson of the newly set-up Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI), the aim of the project is to provide each Indian an identity card. He also added that this will help to eliminate fraud.
The new authority would help end ID card duplication by ... |
Last Updated: 2009-06-25T16:10:25+05:30
Infosys Technologies co-chairman Nandan M. Nilekani, 54, has resigned from the top post and the company board following his appointment as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) by the central government.
The UIDAI, an entity under the Planning Commission, ... |
Last Updated: 2009-06-25T14:59:28+05:30
The government on thursday appointed Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of software giant Infosys, as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority - constituted to provide identity cards to Indian citizens.
Nilekani, who has been given the rank and status of a cabinet minister, will ... |
Last Updated: 2008-11-25T16:51:51+05:30
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who has been a key player in India’s growth story and was chosen by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world has taken on a new role as an author, who's Imagining India, focusing on the key issues the country needs to ... |