There are reports from all over the country that the recent decision by the government to demonetise currency notes of Rs. 500/- and Rs. 1000/- denomination has affected everyone. However the consequence of this financial measure is lopsided and it will be mainly borne by the farmers, informal sector workers, women and the financially excluded.   Please check the links/ urls below this news alert to know everything about demonetisation. Till a few...

-The Hindu Riding on this wave, the mobile wallet major expects to process transactions worth Rs.24,000 crore by the end of this year. New Delhi: Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments company and an e-commerce platform, has said that post demonetisation of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 notes, it has touched a record five million transactions a day, against Rs.2.5-3 million transactions earlier. With banks and ATMs unable to meet a high demand for new currency,...

-The Hindu Business Line Villagers of Nageypur, which was adopted by the PM, allege corruption in the cleanliness drive The people of Nageypur, the model village in Varanasi adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are agitated. The village mainly has two problems—open defecation and clogging of water that flows from kitchens and toilets. Out of its 525 families, less than 200 in this village have pucca toilets. Understanding this, the Prime Minister’s Office offered...

-The Hindu Fears of Plastic in eggs dispelled by laboratories in the State, but BJP wants samples tested at Central units Kochi: It has been a great egg scare in Kerala after hoaxers floated the theory that eggs sold in supermarkets in the State were not natural and actually came from Chinese factories full of toxins and Plastic. The ‘Chinese eggs’ scare gained ground over the past few days after Malayalam media in...

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet Swachh Bharat initiative may be celebrating two years with much fanfare on Sunday but just a fifth of the respondents in a recent nationwide survey say local municipalities have improved garbage collection or cleanliness. The study found the hygiene has visibly improved in only four states – three of them ruled by the BJP while the rest of India reported marginal or no...