Note-bandi

'Bandi' appears to be the 'mantra' of this government. First it was 'note-bandi', now it's 'log-bandi'. The poor suffered the most then; the poor are suffering the most today. Yet, we are expected to stand up and clap!

November 8, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock decision to ban high-denomination notes will be celebrated by the BJP as "anti-black money day", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced.

Two months into Narendra Modi's demonetisation, the Opposition looks like it is still flailing for a response - at least in the short term. Speaking at the giant rally in Lucknow that revitalised his party's campaign, the Prime Minister wasn't shy about repeating the virtues of note-bandi, as he saw them: it was, he said a transfer from the corrupt...

A house of a Bengal BJP leader was bombed late last night allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress workers, hours after the BJP's Kolkata office was attacked after the arrest of a senior leader of the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party for his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam that bankrupted lakhs of small investors in Bengal. After ...

The BJP office in Kolkata was attacked this evening, minutes after one of the most senior leaders of Mamata Banerjee's party was arrested for alleged involvement in a ponzi scheme that bankrupted lakhs of small investors in Bengal.

'Bandi' appears to be the 'mantra' of this government. First it was 'note-bandi', now it's 'log-bandi'. The poor suffered the most then; the poor are suffering the most today. Yet, we are expected to stand up and clap!

November 8, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock decision to ban high-denomination notes will be celebrated by the BJP as "anti-black money day", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced.

Two months into Narendra Modi's demonetisation, the Opposition looks like it is still flailing for a response - at least in the short term. Speaking at the giant rally in Lucknow that revitalised his party's campaign, the Prime Minister wasn't shy about repeating the virtues of note-bandi, as he saw them: it was, he said a transfer from the corrupt...

A house of a Bengal BJP leader was bombed late last night allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress workers, hours after the BJP's Kolkata office was attacked after the arrest of a senior leader of the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party for his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam that bankrupted lakhs of small investors in Bengal. After ...

The BJP office in Kolkata was attacked this evening, minutes after one of the most senior leaders of Mamata Banerjee's party was arrested for alleged involvement in a ponzi scheme that bankrupted lakhs of small investors in Bengal.