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Congress says demonetisation of high-value currency notes in 2016 was India's "greatest organised loot" and demands White Paper from Modi government

Maharashtra BJP MLA Ram Kadam added Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarakar to mix as he suggested four new currency notes in a race set off by Arvind Kejriwal's demand to put Hindu deities' images on the notes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged cooperation between the world's democracies to ensure cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin do not "end up in the wrong hands," delivering the comments while his government drew up new rules for digital currencies.

The sudden move to ban high-value currency notes in 2016 was not a "jhatka" (shock) as people with black money were warned a year earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview to news agency ANI on Tuesday, defending demonetisation.

Cutting across party lines, opposition leaders united on Thursday to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his controversial decision to ban large currency notes on the second anniversary of the decision.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley posted a strong defence of demonetisation today as opposition parties seized the second anniversary of the move to rip into the government and even demand an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a Facebook post, the minister described PM Modi's overnight ban on higher currency notes on November 8, 2016, as a "...

Individual investors started returning to collective investment vehicles after the 2014 general elections, hoping for a reset to an economy held back by corruption scandals and policy paralysis. They doubled down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock November 2016 currency ban pulled 86 percent of people's cash into bank accounts.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to weed out black money through a ban on high-value currency notes haven't yielded the desired results.

Over 99 per cent of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the November 2016 demonetisation have returned to the banking system, the Reserve Bank of India said today after completing what it calls the "humungous task" of counting the banned cash. The central bank's annual report says only a fraction of the currency was ...

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...

Rahul Gandhi, at an interaction with members of the Indian community in Malaysia, took a stinging swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden decision to demonetise high-value currency notes in 2016. The Congress president has been a consistent critic of the notes ban decision and the way it was implemented, forcing millions of Indians to stand ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted a seven-minute film early on Wednesday morning that he said encapsulates "the benefits of demonetisation," also stating that "125 crore Indians fought a decisive battle and WON." A year ago today, the Prime Minister had suddenly banned high value notes yanking 86 per cent of the currency in circulation at the ti...

The biggest blow for PM Modi, who faces re-election early 2019, is that growth has slowed to levels last seen during his predecessor's administration.

Growth in Asia's third-largest economy has been slowing for the past five quarters, blamed by experts on a chaotic roll out of the goods and services tax and a surprise ban on currency notes to pin down tax evaders.

Indians have returned almost all of the estimated Rs 15.44 lakh crore ($242 billion) in currency banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a shock move in November, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report on Wednesday. The Finance Ministry, in a statement, said a "significant portion" of it could be black money. The tax authoritie...

Congress says demonetisation of high-value currency notes in 2016 was India's "greatest organised loot" and demands White Paper from Modi government

Maharashtra BJP MLA Ram Kadam added Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarakar to mix as he suggested four new currency notes in a race set off by Arvind Kejriwal's demand to put Hindu deities' images on the notes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged cooperation between the world's democracies to ensure cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin do not "end up in the wrong hands," delivering the comments while his government drew up new rules for digital currencies.

The sudden move to ban high-value currency notes in 2016 was not a "jhatka" (shock) as people with black money were warned a year earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an interview to news agency ANI on Tuesday, defending demonetisation.

Cutting across party lines, opposition leaders united on Thursday to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his controversial decision to ban large currency notes on the second anniversary of the decision.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley posted a strong defence of demonetisation today as opposition parties seized the second anniversary of the move to rip into the government and even demand an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a Facebook post, the minister described PM Modi's overnight ban on higher currency notes on November 8, 2016, as a "...

Individual investors started returning to collective investment vehicles after the 2014 general elections, hoping for a reset to an economy held back by corruption scandals and policy paralysis. They doubled down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock November 2016 currency ban pulled 86 percent of people's cash into bank accounts.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to weed out black money through a ban on high-value currency notes haven't yielded the desired results.

Over 99 per cent of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the November 2016 demonetisation have returned to the banking system, the Reserve Bank of India said today after completing what it calls the "humungous task" of counting the banned cash. The central bank's annual report says only a fraction of the currency was ...

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...

Rahul Gandhi, at an interaction with members of the Indian community in Malaysia, took a stinging swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden decision to demonetise high-value currency notes in 2016. The Congress president has been a consistent critic of the notes ban decision and the way it was implemented, forcing millions of Indians to stand ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted a seven-minute film early on Wednesday morning that he said encapsulates "the benefits of demonetisation," also stating that "125 crore Indians fought a decisive battle and WON." A year ago today, the Prime Minister had suddenly banned high value notes yanking 86 per cent of the currency in circulation at the ti...

The biggest blow for PM Modi, who faces re-election early 2019, is that growth has slowed to levels last seen during his predecessor's administration.

Growth in Asia's third-largest economy has been slowing for the past five quarters, blamed by experts on a chaotic roll out of the goods and services tax and a surprise ban on currency notes to pin down tax evaders.

Indians have returned almost all of the estimated Rs 15.44 lakh crore ($242 billion) in currency banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a shock move in November, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report on Wednesday. The Finance Ministry, in a statement, said a "significant portion" of it could be black money. The tax authoritie...