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Demonetisation: In value, digital deals surge, then dip to 5-month -Sunny Verma & Pranav Mukul

-The Indian Express Demonetisation: On digital transactions, too, RBI data shows that the volume of electronic payments, after peaking in December 2016 at 957.50 million transactions compared with 671.49 million in November, has been on a decline. New Delhi: When it launched the currency withdrawal in November, the NDA government had outlined four key objectives of the demonetisation exercise: detection of black money, elimination of fake currency, squeezing funds available for...

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99% of junked Rs 500/1000 notes returned to banks: RBI

-PTI As much as 99 per cent of the junked Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes have returned to the banking system, RBI said today, prompting opposition to question the efficacy of the government's unprecedented note ban decision to curb black money and corruption. The Reserve Bank, which has so far shied away from disclosing the actual number of junked currency deposited after November 8 last year, said in its Annual Report...

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Economy red flags go up -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury and R Suryamurthy

-The Telegraph New Delhi: India's growth juggernaut has started to lose steam. In the mid-year Economic Survey, chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian flagged big risks to economic growth and fiscal targets while asserting that the country had entered a "new phase of relatively low, possibly very low, inflation". In the first volume of the survey published in January, the government had forecast GDP growth in the range of 6.75 to 7.5 per cent...

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Non-availability of machines slowed down counting of withdrawn notes: Urjit Patel -AM Jigeesh

-The Hindu Business Line Remonetisation taking place at a good pace, RBI Governor tells House panel New Delhi: RBI Governor Urjit Patel told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance that the non-availability of the currency verification processing system (CVPS) machines is one reason why the counting of demonetised notes is not yet done. Though he painted a rosy picture of the digitisation process in the country post-demonetisation before the panel, figures presented by...

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It's DeMo effect, says Singh

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today directly linked the slowdown in growth to demonetisation, pointed out that private investments had almost dried up and expressed deep concern over a jobs crunch. The most authoritative Opposition voice on the economy was speaking at the Congress Working Committee meeting, five months after describing demonetisation as "organised loot and legalised plunder" and warning that growth would be severely affected. "India's GDP numbers...

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