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Tigers are disappearing from the Indian sub-continent and the government is enrolling the help of stars, politicians and citizens to help in the cause to save the animals

Randeep Ramesh in Delhi GuardianUK Wednesday 16 September 2009 In India, Big Brother just wants to help. The country’s 1.2 billion citizens are to be issued with a biometric identity card in an attempt to improve the delivery of India’s inefficient public services – a move civil liberties’ activists are condemning as the act of a “surveillance society”. This month, the country began the ambitious scheme of issuing everyone with a unique identity number. Within the first five years of