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Gill, Shreyas tons, Suryakumar blitz give India the series

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Moody’s Investors Service says world’s largest digital ID program often denies service to users; raises concerns about biometrics’ use, especially for manual labourers; warns of privacy and security risks

Moody’s Investors Service’s remarks on Aadhaar assume significance in view of the government’s adoption of Aadhaar for routing direct benefit transfers to beneficiaries of official welfare schemes, and in particular, the diktat to mandate Aadhaar-based payments for labourers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. File

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Part of old bridge on Bhogavo river collapses in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district; four injured

At least 12 injured after drainage slab caves in under weight of crowd in Rajkot

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