Already starved of cash due to demonetisation, people across India suffered more pain amid stray violence on Thursday as queues outside banks and ATMs got longer after November salaries and pensions were credited....
The main reason given by the government for demonetising high denomination notes was to curb black money. Various estimates have been made of the quantum of such money -- which is not expected to be deposited in banks -- ranging from Rs 3 lakh crore to Rs 5 lakh crore....
State Finance Minister Thomas Issac told reporters that there was no financial crunch -- rather the crunch was of currency. Despite that, there were no reports of any untoward incident, he said....
In connection with search operations for black money, the government on Thursday clarified on the exemption limits for seizure of gold jewellery and ornaments as being 500 grams per married woman, 250 grams per unmarried woman and 100 grams per male member of the family....
The worst fears of the Uttar Pradesh Police that demonetisation will become a law and order issue is finally turning out to be a scary reality. With new currency notes still short in stock and people's patience running thin, there are increasing incidents of scuffles, stone pelting as well as threats being made to bank employees in the state....
The opposition on Thursday again disrupted Lok Sabha proceedings persistently demanding a discussion on demonetisation under a rule that entails voting, forcing Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to adjourn the house for the day shortly after noon. Soon after the house met, Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyay raised the issue of delay in landing p...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged the people of Uttar Pradesh to vote against the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections to avenge the demonetisation misery. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader also told a public rally here that the spiking of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes was the "biggest scandal in independent India" and was ...
The Trinamool Congress on Thursday raised in the Rajya Sabha the issue of alleged delayed landing clearance by Kolkata airport's Air Traffic Control (ATC) to a plane carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee despite it being low on fuel. After TMC MP Derek O'Brien raised the issue, all opposition members, irrespective of p...
A day after his Twitter account was hacked and expletives posted on it, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday tweeted to say he "loves all my haters and they are beautiful". "To everyone of you haters out there: I love all of you. You're beautiful. Your hatred just doesn't let you see it yet," Rahul Gandhi said on his ...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has sought a report from the Indian Consulate in Dubai about an NRI after local media reported about the man's desperate bid to return home. Jagannathan Selvaraj, 48, who hails from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, has walked over 1,000 kilometres over the last two years to attend court proceedings in a bi...
