Karnataka HC-appointed panel notes that by 2 May hospital's supply of oxygen 'was completely exhausted' — the day 24 of the 36 deaths occurred. Report submitted to HC last week.

24 patients, including those suffering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), at a government hospital in Karnataka died today. News agency ANI informed that the patients, who were undergoing treatment at the district hospital in Chamarajanagar, died of oxygen shortage and other accompanying reasons in the last 24 hours.

ಒಂದು ದಿನದ ಅವಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಆಕ್ಸಿಜನ್ ಲಭ್ಯತೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೇ 36 ಜನ ಪ್ರಾಣ ತೆತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದಕ್ಕೆಲ್ಲಾ ಆ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲಾಧಿಕಾರಿ ಹಾಗು ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯ ಮುಖ್ಯಸ್ಥರು ತಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಪಾಲನೆ ಮಾಡದಿರುವುದೇ ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು  ಆಕ್ಸಿಜನ್ ದುರಂತದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿ ವೇಣುಗೋಪಾಲಗೌಡ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಕಾನೂನು ಸೇವಾ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರದ ಸಮಿತಿ ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಗೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿರುವ ವರದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

Unfortunately, in their eagerness to quash Aadhaar, they seem even willing to embrace questionable storylines deliberately designed to bait and malign the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) prior to the Supreme Court hearings. For example, when the UIDAI filed a FIR in a case of alleged misuse of its grievance redress system to illegally obtain some people’s Aadhaar demographic data, it was quickly accused of muzzling the free press, when it was merely fulfilling its legal obligation to act on any reported misuse of data.

(Have you ever tried to delete highly personal and sometimes libellous information that show up when you Google your own name?)

hypocritical when they now suggest that everything was working just fine until Aadhaar came on the scene.

the movement against Aadhaar is led by a small group of Left-leaning activists, who are well known for advocating more and more government in people’s lives

So, this is the real news: not even a single biometric data, repeat not even a single biometric data, has been leaked in the last seven years since the first Aadhaar was issued. If that is not adequate security, what is?

Aadhaar is like a detergent which is going to clean whatever it is applied on. When Aadhaar was being used by the poor for getting their entitlements, it was deemed okay. Now that it is cleaning other systems to check things like benami properties and tax evasions, it is becoming too dangerous for many people.

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First, the Aadhaar number is not a secret number.

The entire list of electors in India is available online with all these details.

So, if one person shares his credentials with another for a consideration, can this be called a data breach that exposes the weakness of the system? This is not a breach of system, but a breach of trust.

one of the persons who had access to the search facility sold his credentials to somebody.

If all these breach claims were true, no part of Aadhaar data would have been left secure. The fact is that there has been no data breach till date.

I had written in this publication that there had been no data leak

Guessing is also difficult as every 12-digit number is not an Aadhaar number.

Yes, he can now enter an Aadhaar number and download the Aadhaar letter relating to the concerned person.

Aadhaar

India Stack

“I could place those who have opposed Aadhaar in three buckets,” says Jain. “1) Those who don't understand, they have constant fear that the government projects are not well thought through. They change their minds once we explain. 2) Those who oppose on the grounds of privacy, they are afraid that it could get too powerful. You have to respect that view, and make the system more secure. 3) Those who have their own agenda. There's nothing you can do about it. You can't reason with them. You just have to live with them.”

what’s possibly a First World problem.

The big question is whether we should pull the plug on the entire system because one can never be 100% sure that it wouldn’t happen; or should we think of ways to fix these issues while using it because it promises to make the lives of a large number of people significantly better.

Samsung launched a tablet with Iris scanner, which is more accurate,

It’s value neutral.

A tag on the vehicle, sensors at toll plazas, a charging system (prepaid/postpaid) built on the principles of interoperability and other enabling infrastructure should solve the issue.

When it comes to giving away cash—as in the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS)—the problem is even more complicated because cash is more fungible and has more uses than rice or sugar. The Aadhaar Payment Bridge solves this problem. It’s now possible to credit the payments directly to a beneficiary’s bank.

In Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, which has seen reforms based on Aadhaar, people have more choice. The ration subsidies are tied to their Aadhaar number, and they can get their rice, sugar and other rationed items from any PDS outlet they want. If they see one outlet giving them a poor deal, they vote with their feet, putting pressure on the entire system to get better.

There was a missing piece—public digital infrastructure. This is where the volunteers, who are keen on building software products in India, are making a difference.

But they are owned and controlled by Google and Apple. India Stack, on the other hand, is open. They are public goods.

In the broader market such competition typically leads to lower prices and better quality, and so it was with UIDAI. Prices came down.

the customer can be held to ransom because there is only one vendor.

open-API

Even if we believe that it can solve problems, can something credible and free be built by a bunch of volunteers?

y providing an open, public

physical authentication

The use cases extend to more prosperous Indians too—for example, easing road toll collection to decongest traffic and reduce waiting time at the toll booth.  

Most of them have been created by Google, Facebook or Microsoft. The closest any of these come to Aadhaar is Android which reached a billion in five years, eight months.

including their biometrics, to American tech companies and foreign governments anyway,

cash and grain

tried to defame the programme

Recently, there was a spate of claims that the Aadhaar database was leaking information. That was not true though. A banking official had released the information, which was a criminal act. The fact remains that data can be stolen.

others do not

, especially when they appear to accomplish things in years that activism has not for decades

Reacting to such concerns, the Supreme Court has stated that Aadhaar should not be made mandatory to receive benefits. Meanwhile, over the years, the processes of the Aadhaar system have been improving.

Aadhaar system to make tax evasion difficult. “There are 250 million PANs (permanent account numbers),” Nilekani says, but only about 40 million who file returns.

People who fear Modi find this ominous. They say that the technology of Aadhaar makes it easy for a strongman like him to spy on his rivals and citizens. “The end of privacy,” they write in articles that have Modi appearing to peer into your private lives.

When the Unique Identification programme was launched in 2009 during the Congress regime, everyone thought it was only for the poor.

ಕೆಲವರು ನಾರೀ ತುನಾರಾಯಣಿ(ಹೆಣ್ಣು ದೇವರಿಗೆ ಸಮಾನ) ಎನ್ನುತ್ತಾ ಮೋದಿಯವರನ್ನೇ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಲು ಮುಂದಾದರೆ

ಸಿಖ್ಖಳಾದ ಗುರ್‌ಮೆಹರ್‌ಗೆ ಸಿಖ್ಖಪಂಥದ ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ಗುರುಗೋವಿಂದ್ ಸಿಂಗ್, ಅವರ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಕೊಂದವರ ಮತ ಇವೆಲ್ಲ ಗೊತ್ತಿರಲೇಬೇಕು ಅಲ್ಲವೆ?

However, even VVPAT is not a foolproof system. It can be prone to the same risks as the EVMs are.

VM to be connected to Internet but EVMs have no internet connection. So, hacking an EVM is not possible.

t such chips can be inserted in

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"I am not very pessimistic, but it is a challenging task and I tend to believe that 60-65 per cent of them are just not trainable," Capgemini India's chief executive Srinivas Kandula said. "A large number of them cannot be trained. Probably, India will witness the largest unemployment in the middle level to senior level."

As for budget dates, it is plain silly to claim that all normal governmental activities should be abandoned when the czars of the EC do their jobs.

He obviously does not read too many newspapers or he would have known without the government having to inform him.

Marathas defeated the Mughal empire centuries late

However, similar books as Shashi Tharoor’s exposing British rule in India as tyrannical could also be written about the Mughals and other Islamic invaders. Mughal rule commonly practised genocide of Hindus and destruction of temples, not merely by Aurangzeb. Such studies could be made on Tamerlane’s genocide of north India and on the older Delhi Sultanate overall – notably Alauddin Khilji, who pillaged India north and south. They could be written on many Islamic invaders and rulers in India over the centuries, some of whom are portrayed as heroes in Indian history books today. But most scholars would not dare conduct such research, as political motives override their willingness to tell the truth.

British and the Mughals that took shape only under Nehru.

From Swami Vivekananda’s Yoga-Vedanta revival, to Lokmanya Tilak’s back to the Gita message, to Sri Aurobindo and his honouring of the Vedas, to the Ram Rajya ideal that extended to Mahatma Gandhi, this respect for India’s past was prominent and proud. Images of Bharata Mata, and songs like Vande Mataram expressed such inspiration

could also be written about the Mughals and other Islamic invaders.

Hindus never convert people

how technology is being effectively used to end the menace of corruption and black money

Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM), a government app,

How could USCIRF outsource a report harshly critical of India, one of the most important democratic allies of the US, to an activist with a history of supporting separatist causes against India that too often employ terrorism against innocent civilians? How can USCIRF give its imprimatur to a report citing debunked sources and smearing the Hindu religion?

left tens of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs dead

Beyond the litany of attacks against India and the Hindu religion in the latest USCIRF special report, what should alarm any observer, is the document’s authorship.

Attacking Hinduism And India

for the first time in USCIRF’s history, the commission makes the overtly Hinduphobic declaration that caste-based discrimination is rooted in Hindu scripture.

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