Either the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is uncharacteristically cavalier with the demonetisation-related figures it has given out periodically since November 8 or, more worryingly, its number crunchers are getting their math mixed up....
The decision of demonetising higher currency notes was not taken in a hurry, Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has said, adding that the decision was taken in consultation with Reserve Bank of India (RBI)....
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday criticised the government move to exempt political parties from income tax while depositing demonetised currency notes and accused them of holding most of the black money. ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime needs to be implemented between April 1 and September 16, 2017, due to constitutional compulsions. ...
Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah on Saturday said that government understand people's difficulty due to demonetisation of higher currency notes, but these 50 days will provide relief from black money for the coming 50 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sought 50 days to ease the hardship. "We know line is there pe...
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano will arrive in Iran's capital Tehran on Sunday to discuss the implementation of Iranian nuclear deal, known as JCPOA, with the senior Iranian officials. Amano is scheduled to meet with the Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, and a num...
Police in Ranchi said on Saturday that four suspects were detained after a 19-year-old engineering student was found dead, stripped bare and her body charred -- the fourth incident of a woman being burnt alive in Jharkhand. The BTech student of an IT institute here was living at a rented house in Buty Basti with her sister who had g...
Five female airport workers along with a driver were killed after gunmen fired bullets on their vehicle in Kandahar city, capital of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, on Saturday, media reported. "The firing occurred at around 5.30 a.m. in Deh Khoja locality of the city. The victims were travelling to office before their minibus came under attack in ...
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said DMK President M. Karunanidhi would soon return home from hospital. Gandhi flew down here in a special aircraft to visit Karunanidhi admitted in a hospital. Speaking to reporters Gandhi said he met Karunanidhi and enquired about his health. He also conveyed Congress President Sonia Gandhi's wis...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime needs to be implemented between April 1 and September 16, 2017, due to constitutional compulsions....