Tribune Editor Harish Khare quits weeks after Aadhaar report

March 16, 2018 14:33

Harish Khare, editor-in-chief of The Tribune, the independent, Chandigarh-based newspaper known for punching above its weight on the national media scene, is on his way out, The Wire has learned. Word of his departure comes weeks after The Tribune's expos of a security flaw in the Aadhaar database that allowed middlemen to access key personal information about all those enrolled in the government's 'voluntary' universal ID scheme database. The story won Khare and his team plaudits from privacy advocates and the media fraternity but also led to the filing of criminal charges against the reporter, Rachna Khaira, as the UIDAI scrambled to limit the damage. Read more

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