India's New ID Cards: Court to test legitimacy of new system
02:40
World
India's New ID Cards: Court to test legitimacy of new system
On Wednesday, India's top court begins hearing arguments over the legality of the country's proposed biometric identification programme. It's the most ambitious project of its kind in the world and is designed to log the entire population of 1.3 billion. But as Radhika Bajaj explains, since the system was launched in 2009, it's been beset with problems.
January 17, 2018
More Videos
America’s newest media moguls: the Ellisons
BBC–Trump legal row over ‘misleading’ edit
Yemeni children schooling in tents amid war ruins
Land, trees & lives: Many faces of Israeli occupation
Two nations celebrate 75 years of diplomatic ties
US-India ties on the brink of collapse
A bloody summer: the last 60 days of the Russia-Ukraine war
What’s in Columbia University’s $221M settlement with Trump?
Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices
What does Israel have to gain from “protecting” Syria’s Druze?