India Today

Every Move You Make

India is on the threshold of setting up a gigantic national Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS), which the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under the home ministry, has laboured to insist will be used exclusively for criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organisations and units across the country. The contract bids, invited in July, were to close earlier this month. Possibly the world's largest facial recognition project, the proposed AFRS will use images from sources like CCTV cameras, newspapers and raids to identify criminals by

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from India Today

India Today8 min read
The Real Pawar Struggle
For the 6,200-odd voters of Katewadi, a village in the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency that goes to the polls on May 7, the decision on who to vote for is not incumbent on any discussion on the merits and demerits of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
India Today1 min read
Action Notes
↘ Project BJP as anti-Bengal by highlighting cessation of central funds under NREGA, PMAY-G ↘ Hold on to women beneficiaries of state welfare schemes ↘ Clearing part of due wages under NREGA till Dec. 2021, promise to pay PMAY-G money ↘ Consolidating
India Today2 min read
Centennial Man
K.G. Subramanyan was one of the most important artists of the post-independence Indian Modernists. Differently from the Progressives of Bombay and others, KG (as he was widely known) was also a bridge between Santiniketan Modernism and the energetic

Related Books & Audiobooks