Cash Ban Impact In Up

Fitch said the recovery in global growth is strengthening and is expected to pick up to 2.9 per cent this year and peak to 3.1 per cent in 2018 - the highest such rate since 2010.

Polling was held in 73 assembly constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in the first of seven phases of what is billed as a semi-final before the 2019 national election. A turnout of 64.2 per cent was recorded, 3 per cent better than that registered in 2012 state elections. The pressure is on the BJP which swept the region in the 2014 n...

In Gajju Majra near Patiala, 32-year-old Harpreet Singh wakes up and heads straight to the bank. From 7 am, he waits in a queue along with his fellow farmers to withdraw money, so that he can buy fodder to feed his cattle and essential material for his crop. Almost two months after the notes ban, farmers in Punjab remain distressed by the cash crun...

With the government pushing farmers and the rural population to open bank accounts in the wake of the currency ban, the situation at this bank in rural Uttar Pradesh, however, has not improved even after 20 days since the cash ban was announced.

Leading hospitals in the capital such as Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SRGH) and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital have tied up with banks and post offices to set up extra counters and collect filled application forms to ease the process of exchanging banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.

The cancellation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, more than 80 percent of currency in circulation, threatens to push Asia's third-largest economy into a liquidity crisis.

Fitch said the recovery in global growth is strengthening and is expected to pick up to 2.9 per cent this year and peak to 3.1 per cent in 2018 - the highest such rate since 2010.

Polling was held in 73 assembly constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in the first of seven phases of what is billed as a semi-final before the 2019 national election. A turnout of 64.2 per cent was recorded, 3 per cent better than that registered in 2012 state elections. The pressure is on the BJP which swept the region in the 2014 n...

In Gajju Majra near Patiala, 32-year-old Harpreet Singh wakes up and heads straight to the bank. From 7 am, he waits in a queue along with his fellow farmers to withdraw money, so that he can buy fodder to feed his cattle and essential material for his crop. Almost two months after the notes ban, farmers in Punjab remain distressed by the cash crun...

With the government pushing farmers and the rural population to open bank accounts in the wake of the currency ban, the situation at this bank in rural Uttar Pradesh, however, has not improved even after 20 days since the cash ban was announced.

Leading hospitals in the capital such as Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SRGH) and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital have tied up with banks and post offices to set up extra counters and collect filled application forms to ease the process of exchanging banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.

The cancellation of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, more than 80 percent of currency in circulation, threatens to push Asia's third-largest economy into a liquidity crisis.