Narendra Modi Demonetization

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for accusing the Congress of doing "nothing" while in power, party president Rahul Gandhi said Saturday nobody had committed the "foolishness" of the notes ban and the "Gabbar Singh Tax" in the last 70 years.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board had warned about the short-term negative effect of demonetization on growth and had noted that it would have no material impact on the campaign against black money.

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, which is being wooed by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, on Monday criticized the Narendra Modi government on various fronts including demonetization, GST, unemployment and farm distress.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for alleging that India made little or no progress during decades of Congress rule, saying this was an insult to the people who built the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today answered Rahul Gandhi's attacks on his government over demonetization, saying since he and his mother Sonia Gandhi are out on bail, they should not be questioning anyone's honesty.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and former party president Mulayam Singh Yadav presented a united front at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday, downplaying estranged leader Shivpal Yadav's contention that he enjoys the party patriarch's support.

The Indian central bank's final tally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2016 demonetization drive, intended to take money derived from tax evasion out of circulation, showed that 99.3 percent of outlawed high-value banknotes had been returned.

In all of India's economic history, it's hard to find anything quite as indefensible as demonetisation. In fact, its irrationality is world-beating - Narendra Modi promised to put us on the world map, and he has - just not the way we expected.

In the chaotic final months of 2016, angry citizens were slamming the Reserve Bank of India by calling it the "Reverse Bank." It's taken Governor Urjit Patel, who had only recently stepped into the top job, almost two years to reassert his authority and reestablish the institution's credibility with a couple of notable successes just this week.

Ahead of the national election next year, Uttar Pradesh's opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) has drawn an extensive campaign to target the ruling BJP. The campaign will be launched through a 50-km cycle rally on September 16. SP Chief and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has decided to highlight the after-effects of notebandi or demonetization, wh...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given a fresh lavender wash to the new Rs 100 note which will be in circulation by next month. Two years ago, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced demonetization of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, the powder blue Rs 100 note was left untouched. It was soon the most sought-after currency note in India till t...

A question under the RTI regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh into every citizen's bank account, has drawn a blank from the Prime Minister's Office. The application had asked for the exact date when the money will be deposited. The PM's Office has now responded that this cannot be considered "information" under ...

Reiterating his disapproval for NDA government's demonetization move, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha's on Monday compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a 16th century ruler who had demonetised currency during his reign in India. Tagging notesban as "tax terrorism", Mr Sinha said the country has gone back five centuries to repeat the mista...

Titled "Going Cashless?", the research report covering perceptions, usage and behavior, toward digital payments, pre and post demonetization, was conducted by the Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion at the Institute for Financial Management & Research (IFMR) in collaboration with researchers at Digital Innovation Lab, IIM Bangalore.

Two day before the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, IIM Indore achieved another milestone by becoming a 'Cashless-Campus' on November 6, 2017 with the inauguration of the renovated state-of-the-art Mess 2.

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for accusing the Congress of doing "nothing" while in power, party president Rahul Gandhi said Saturday nobody had committed the "foolishness" of the notes ban and the "Gabbar Singh Tax" in the last 70 years.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board had warned about the short-term negative effect of demonetization on growth and had noted that it would have no material impact on the campaign against black money.

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, which is being wooed by the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, on Monday criticized the Narendra Modi government on various fronts including demonetization, GST, unemployment and farm distress.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for alleging that India made little or no progress during decades of Congress rule, saying this was an insult to the people who built the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today answered Rahul Gandhi's attacks on his government over demonetization, saying since he and his mother Sonia Gandhi are out on bail, they should not be questioning anyone's honesty.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and former party president Mulayam Singh Yadav presented a united front at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday, downplaying estranged leader Shivpal Yadav's contention that he enjoys the party patriarch's support.

The Indian central bank's final tally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2016 demonetization drive, intended to take money derived from tax evasion out of circulation, showed that 99.3 percent of outlawed high-value banknotes had been returned.

In all of India's economic history, it's hard to find anything quite as indefensible as demonetisation. In fact, its irrationality is world-beating - Narendra Modi promised to put us on the world map, and he has - just not the way we expected.

In the chaotic final months of 2016, angry citizens were slamming the Reserve Bank of India by calling it the "Reverse Bank." It's taken Governor Urjit Patel, who had only recently stepped into the top job, almost two years to reassert his authority and reestablish the institution's credibility with a couple of notable successes just this week.

Ahead of the national election next year, Uttar Pradesh's opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) has drawn an extensive campaign to target the ruling BJP. The campaign will be launched through a 50-km cycle rally on September 16. SP Chief and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has decided to highlight the after-effects of notebandi or demonetization, wh...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given a fresh lavender wash to the new Rs 100 note which will be in circulation by next month. Two years ago, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced demonetization of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, the powder blue Rs 100 note was left untouched. It was soon the most sought-after currency note in India till t...

A question under the RTI regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh into every citizen's bank account, has drawn a blank from the Prime Minister's Office. The application had asked for the exact date when the money will be deposited. The PM's Office has now responded that this cannot be considered "information" under ...

Reiterating his disapproval for NDA government's demonetization move, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha's on Monday compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a 16th century ruler who had demonetised currency during his reign in India. Tagging notesban as "tax terrorism", Mr Sinha said the country has gone back five centuries to repeat the mista...

Titled "Going Cashless?", the research report covering perceptions, usage and behavior, toward digital payments, pre and post demonetization, was conducted by the Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion at the Institute for Financial Management & Research (IFMR) in collaboration with researchers at Digital Innovation Lab, IIM Bangalore.

Two day before the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation, IIM Indore achieved another milestone by becoming a 'Cashless-Campus' on November 6, 2017 with the inauguration of the renovated state-of-the-art Mess 2.