Activists stage demonstration against irregularities in issuing social security cards

September 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chief Nandan Nilekani said on Wednesday that at least 60 crore people would get their identity cards in next five years. "We expect to give Unique Identification Numbers (UIDs) to at least 600 million citizens in the next 4-5-years.

August 31st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Kin of missing people staged a demonstration in Srinagar to mark International Day of Disappeared Persons. Protestors, gathering under the banner of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), sat all day long with banners, placards and photographs, demanding whereabouts of their untraced relatives.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Activists of the Rashtrawadi Sena Party on Wednesday staged demonstration against former senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jaswant Singh showering encomium on founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in his book. Led by its head and founder, Jai Bhagwan Goyal, the activists held demonstration amidst sloganeering here.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The UPA Government on Tuesday said that it is yet to take a decision on issuing national Identity cards to usual residents in the country. Addressing the Parliament, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that based on the experience of the pilot project on multi- purpose National Identity Card, the Government has proposed to create a National Population Register (NPR) in the country along with 2011 census.

July 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Hundreds of activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) staged a demonstration here against the alleged atrocities by security personnel in Lalgarh and also against the recent fuel hike by the Central Government. Shouting slogans against the Congress Party, they demanded roll back of fuel price hike.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - About 120,000 residents of 3,331 coastal villages will be given identity cards in the first phase of a scheme that will eventually cover the entire country, the Rajya Sabha was informed Wednesday. "In nine states and four union territories, we have identified 3,331 coastal villages where identity cards will be distributed to all usual residents over the age of 18," Home Minister P.

July 5th, 2009 MYSORE - Railway recruitment examination centre were attacked by the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (Pravin Shetty Group), demanding more preference Kannadigas in railway jobs here today. The activists entered the examination hall in Yuvaraj College, and shouted pro Kannada slogans.

June 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Activists of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) took out a candlelight march here last night to protest against the alleged rape and murder of two Kashmiri women at Shopian area last month. Holding placards for justice, supporters marched raising pro-freedom slogans and later staged a sit-in demonstration demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Protests continued in India over racist attacks on Indian students in Australia, as activists under the banner of Non-Aligned Students and Youth Movement (NAYSM) staged a mass demonstration in the national capital on Thursday. "We are holding this demonstration and later we will be going to Australian High Commission to submit a memorandum to condemn the racial attacks on Indian students in Australia," said Subash Chaudhary, Chairman of NAYSM.

June 11th, 2009 JAMMU - Investigations by the Crime Branch of Jammu and Kashmir police into the SIM card scam has resulted in deactivation of 36,000 SIM cards by Reliance Communication in Jammu. It is alleged that the distributors of the company issued SIM cards without the mandatory prior verification and in some cases even by forging documents.

May 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - The principal of a Hyderabad college Tuesday testified before the court hearing the Mumbai terror attacks case that the seven identity cards of his institution, recovered from Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab and his nine associates, were forged. Principal C.

May 11th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Britain is set to eliminate the problem of illegal workers during the current decade through implementation of its ongoing project on issuing national identity cards to protect jobs for all the legal citizens, a British official said here Monday. 'Within the current decade the national identity card with a British national will also become as familiar as a passport required to travel abroad,' Henry Bloomfield, deputy director of science & innovation (identity & passport service) of the British government said while delivering a key-note address at the two-day international conference on security and identity management (SIM 2009) which began at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) here Monday.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - BJP leader L K Advani has said the NDA, if voted to power, would enact a law to make multi-purpose national identity cards mandatory for citizens to strengthen national security. Unveiling the IT Vision Document of the party for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, Advani said security was NDA's main concern for making national identity cards mandatory.

February 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Activists of Kashmiri women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Faith) raided some restaurants here Saturday to foil Valentine's Day celebrations, saying it was un-Islamic. The group's chief, Asiya Andrabi, headed a small group of her activists who visited some hotels and restaurants in the city centre Lal Chowk area.

January 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Activists of Raj Thackeray's Maharashta Navnirman Sena (MNS) exchanged blows with the security staff of the Mumbai University when the latter refused them entry into the campus to meet the authorities. 'Our workers had taken an appointment and gone in a delegation to meet the varsity officials, including the registrar, to discuss certain academic issues when the university's security officials at the Fort Campus in south Mumbai refused them entry,' said MNS spokesman Shirish Parker.