-The Indian Express Farmers are facing the heat from both collapse of demand and inability to purchase inputs post-demonetisation. Junnar (Maharashtra): The last one week and more has brought nothing but bad news for Vasant Pimpale. This farmer from Pargaon Tarfe Ale, a village in Pune district’s Junnar taluka, has already lost 11 tonnes of green chilli grown on eight out of his 15-acres holding. The loss hasn’t been courtesy drought, flood...
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Netas using co-op banks for backdated FDs, DDs -Partha Sinha
-The Times of India MUMBAI: A few cooperative banks, mostly in rural areas, have found a new way to bypass banking system norms put in place by the government to fight the black Money menace. Since PM Narendra Modi launched the demonetisation drive on November 8, these cooperative banks, which are yet to be computerised and still use physical ledger books, are taking cash from customers and opening backdated fixed deposits...
More »Amid black cash hunt, Supreme Court moved on political gifts -J Venkatesan
-The Asian Age Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the CVC. New Delhi: Common Cause organisation has approached the Supreme Court regarding bribes paid to prominent politicians by corporate groups, as revealed during the raids by income tax department and the CBI in 2013 and 2014. Advocate Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the chief...
More »You have been warned -Pratap Bhanu Mehta
-The Indian Express Demonetisation politics unfolds as a vast morality play. Its imagination unleashes the state on you, in the name of protecting your own virtue. The so-called demonetisation is a watershed event for India. It signifies the arrival of a new kind of politics that will redefine the relationship between citizen and state. The scale of this event is so unprecedented that we are struggling to see where all the chips...
More »Why Demonetisation Will Not Eliminate Black Money or Corruption -Abusaleh Shariff and Amir Ullah Khan
-TheWire.in Demonetisation will only affect those who conduct transactions in cash, are not a part of the formal banking system or have not converted their cash into assets. The government’s demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes is a contentious issue, but is understandable. Such schemes may have not worked in the past, but a political commitment had to be honoured. The question is not whether the government is right for...
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