-The Indian Express Urjit Patel to appear before PAC on January 28, list of 10 questions sent New Delhi: THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) headed by senior Congress leader K V Thomas, which has asked Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel to appear before it on January 28, has asked him 10 probing questions on the demonetisation issue — from the decision-making process to the level of RBI’s involvement, impact...
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With Reduced Access to Healthcare, Demonetisation Deaths Are Likely Far Higher Than Reported -Bharat Dogra
-TheWire.in According to doctors working in hospitals providing low-cost treatment, the number of patients has reduced by about 30% since demonetisation. The recent debate on demonetisation-related deaths has taken place mainly in the context of people who died while waiting in bank queues or collapsed while standing in these queues and died soon after. In addition, there are those whose sudden death is being attributed to stress from not finding valid currency...
More »Do not want politics to shift to courts: Supreme Court
-PTI New Delhi: "We do not want politics to shift to the courts," the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while hearing arguments on whether a political party can file and pursue a public interest litigation (PIL). "The apprehension is that this will shift politics to the courts. We do not want this. We do not want politics to shift to the courts," a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V...
More »Demonetisation: Was RBI given enough time to discuss note ban, Manmohan Singh asks House panel -Anand Mishra
-The Indian Express Manmohan Singh also suggested that the panel — which is looking into the demonetisation decision — call government officials to depose before it hears RBI Governor Urjit Patel. New Delhi: During a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance on Thursday, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to know whether the RBI was given sufficient time to hold deliberations on the government’s demonetisation move. He also suggested that the...
More »Rights for the rightful owners -Brinda Karat
-The Hindu On the tenth anniversary of the historic passage of the Forest Rights Act, tribal resistance to defend their rights is growing even as government after government tries to dilute its provisions On this day 10 years ago the historic Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed in the Lok Sabha. Its conception and passage was the result of the decades of struggles and...
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