Demonetisation protests: Congress leaders court arrest outside RBI headquarters in Delhi

The party staged nationwide protests to mark the second anniversary of the note ban.

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· Nov 09, 2018 · 10:45 am

Impact of demonetisation on black money, fake notes won’t be significant, RBI told Centre: Report

The central bank gave its approval to the move but recorded six objections in a meeting convened by the Centre on November 8, 2016.

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· Nov 09, 2018 · 10:29 am

Demonetisation was a ‘shrewd scheme’ to launder black money of PM’s friends, alleges Rahul Gandhi

The Congress president says November 8 will go down in history ‘as a day of infamy’.

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· Nov 08, 2018 · 08:05 pm

Demonetisation led to formalisation of India’s cash-based economy, says Arun Jaitley

The finance minister claimed getting cash into the formal economy and making holders of cash pay tax was the broader objective of the exercise.

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· Nov 08, 2018 · 01:12 pm

Manmohan Singh on demonetisation: ‘Economic misadventures can roil the nation for a long time’

On the second anniversary of the note ban, the Congress called for an investigation into the exercise even as the BJP hailed it as a success.

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· Nov 08, 2018 · 11:55 am

Is the Centre-RBI crisis yet another outcome of demonetisation’s disastrous legacy?

If the note ban had been successful, would the government need to dip into the central banks reserves?

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· Nov 08, 2018 · 07:30 am

Demonetisation broke Maoists’ backbone, exposed ‘urban Naxals’, says BJP think tank’s study

The Public Policy Research Centre said its research team had visited Maoist-affected areas of Chhattisgarh to carry out the study.

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· Nov 01, 2018 · 01:06 pm

BJP, Congress, NCP leaders chair banks where the most demonetised notes were exchanged: Report

According to NABARD, demonetised notes worth Rs 22,270 crore were exchanged in 370 district cooperative banks. The top 10 such banks processed 18.82% of it.

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· Sep 18, 2018 · 11:08 am

In cartoons: A visual recap of demonetisation, from hasty execution to shifting goalposts

It’s a good time to look back at cartoonist Satish Acharya’s 2017 book ‘Rupee Or Not Rupee’.

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· Sep 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Centre looking into 60% of deposits in Jan Dhan accounts after demonetisation: Business Standard

The deposits can be termed illicit only after courts validate the findings of investigators, Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said.

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· Sep 05, 2018 · 10:59 am

Why did Niti Aayog VC point to Raghuram Rajan and NPAs instead of note ban for India's GDP drop?

Rajiv Kumar’s remarks go against the opinions of most economists, including the former Chief Economic Advisor.

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· Sep 04, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Demonetisation helped convert up to Rs 4 lakh crore of black money into white’: P Chidambaram

The Congress leader suggested that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was not taken into confidence when the decision was announced in November 2016.

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· Aug 31, 2018 · 10:25 pm