The Biggest Stories of November 16, 2016
The first day of winter session of Parliament saw government on back-foot defending demonetisation as a united opposition cried financial anarchy; The Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee led protest against the demonetisation move to the President with BJP ally in Maharashtra Shiv Sena in close tow; A big fat Reddy wedding hosted 50,000 guests in Bengaluru. The IT department, however, kept a probing eye towards the lavish wedding; Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that loan to Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher is a write-off only in the books and that the probe on the company is still on; The founder of e-commerce giant, Flipkart, Sachin Bansal joined the demonetisation debate saying the cash clean up idea is very good and a wake-up call for consumers to go digital; Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj tweeted that her kidneys have failed and she is waiting for a transplant. Offers of kidneys poured in on Twitter; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.
