-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre whether its decision to bring in demonetisation was taken in absolute SECrecy while hearing a bunch of petitions questioning the Narendra Modi government’s rationale behind the implementation of the policy. “When you made the policy on demonetisation, was it confidential?” the top court asked. Chief Justice TS Thakur also asked why the Centre’s order granting limit of Rs 24,000 per day...
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Ranchi to produce organic fertilizer from vegetable, kitchen wastes -Sanjoy Dey
-Hindustan Times Ranchi: Kitchen waste and heap of vegetables dumped at wholesale markets will no longer be the food for stray animals in the city. The wastes will now be processed and converted into organic fertilizer under Swachh Bharat Mission. Taking a cue from Hyderabad, Ranchi civic body has installed low-cost fertilizer manufacturing units at Khadgara vegetable market on Tuesday to convert the wastes into organic fertilizer. The initiative was started as trial...
More »RBI says no notes shortage, outside Delhi hundreds face job losses -Malini Nair
-IANS Around 8.30 every morning, hundreds of workers arrive at the main bus depot in Noida Phase II, about 30 km from New Delhi. They fan out into the lanes of the neighbouring hosiery complex. With nothing more than a tiffin box in their hands, they begin their daily job hunt. Almost every factory gate has a board proclaiming "Avashyakta hai (wanted)". It lists the daily requirement of jobbers-tailors, finishers, 'pressmen' (as...
More »Post demonetisation 95% of ATMs re-calibrated, but only 35% of them functioning -Khushboo Narayan
-The Indian Express India’s largest public SECtor bank, the State Bank of India, has also seen a jump in PoS transactions from 3.5 lakh to 11 lakh a day with more people using debit cards. Mumbai: One month into demonetisation, there has been a significant increase in digital payments. According to AP Hota, managing director and chief executive of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), transactions through RuPay point of sale (PoS) machines have...
More »Expect all demonetised money to come back to system: Revenue SECretary Hasmukh Adhia -Khushboo Narayan
-The Indian Express Questions over cost of exercise; will tax black money hoarders, says Adhia Mumbai: THE government expects the entire money in circulation in the form of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 which have been scrapped to come back to the banking system so that the tax authority can trace the transactions and tax black money hoarders, Revenue SECretary, Hasmukh Adhia said on Tuesday. This, effectively, undermines the...
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