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Aadhaar will include face recognition alongside iris or fingerprint scan as a means of verifying users, helping those who face issues in biometric authentication or have worn-out fingerprints, the authority in charge of the national identity card system said today. The face authentication will be enabled by July to help people facing difficulty in biometric authentication due to old age, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi today promised more economic reforms to further improve the ease of doing business in India as he invited Israeli companies to invest here. Speaking at an Indo-Israel business event, he referred to the further opening up of the single brand retail to foreign investment recently as also allowing foreign airlines to buy stake ...

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) here today. The two-day workshop is being organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Underlining the importance of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure,  Rajnath Singh said that it creates opportunities for economic growth and is at ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives Israeli counterpart Benzamin Netanyahu by breaking protocol at the airport on Sunday. Later, they attended a ceremony at the Teen Murti Memorial here to mark the renaming of Teen Murti Chowk as Teen Murti Haifa Chowk. The two leaders also laid a wreath and signed the visitor’s book at the memorial. The three ...

A Pawan Hans helicopter, which was heading to ONGC’s north field with seven persons onboard, went missing off the Mumbai coast today, official sources said. The Indian Navy has deployed a frigate and a surveillance aircraft to locate the missing chopper while the Coast Guard said that “some debris has been located”, but did not elaborate. The chopper, Dauphin N3, ...

In an unprecedented move, four senior most judges of the Supreme Court today called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things have taken place. Unless this institution is preserved, “democracy will not survive in this country,” the four judges said. Justice J Chelameswar, the second senior ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the events of the National Youth Festival(NYF) on 12 January 2018 through Video conferencing and will also address the gathering. The Festival will commence on the occasion of birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the youth icon of India. The inaugural function will be co-presided by Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath, and Union ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Supreme Court Collegium has approved the names of senior advocate Indu Malhotra and Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph for appointment as judges of the top court. Once the appointment letter issued, Malhotra would be the first woman advocate to be directly elevated from the Bar to the Bench as a Supreme Court Judge. Justice ...

Jigar Sanghvi, Kripesh Sanghvi, and Abhijeet Mankar, the co-owners of ‘1 Above’ pub, arrested in connection with the December 29 Kamala Mills fire that claimed 14 lives, were today sent to police custody for seven days. “They were produced at Bhoiwada court in Dadar today which remanded them to police custody till January 17,” Senior Inspector Ahmed Pathan of N ...

An expert team of IAF mountaineers had successfully scaled highest peaks of six different continents earlier and had recently embarked upon its culminating expedition to Mt Vinson in Antarctica to complete Mission Seven Summits. A five member team led by Gp Capt RC Tripathi VM(G) was flagged off by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa PVSM AVSM YSM VM ADC, Chief ...