-The Indian Express The Indian Express checked one of the websites, which was found to be active hours after the arrests. Investigation into two women arrested for allegedly duping more than 350 people on the pretext of providing health insurance at a low premium has revealed they were procuring database of customers from employees of call centres after paying 5 paise to 50 paise per contact. Last week, two women identified as...
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Demonetisation triggers 1400 per cent rise in suspicious transaction reports: Financial Intelligence Unit
-PTI The elite financial snooping unit of the country has compiled comprehensive data of such instances, including fake currency deposits, for the year 2017-18. NEW DELHI: The 2016 demonetisation of two high-value currencies has led to an all-time high generation of over 14 lakh suspicious transaction reports (STRs), a record 1,400 per cent jump over the past, by banks and other financial institutions in the country, a latest FIU report has found. The...
More »Demonetisation: A circus, clowns and a silver bullet -James Wilson
-National Herald Two years after the disastrous demonetisation, the Prime Minister and his Finance Minister—even the fawning media— no longer speak of the ‘Demonetisation Dividend’. There has been none Two years back, on November 8, at around 8.30 pm, the Prime Minister of India, with his characteristic love for drama, unleashed on the country what he had then claimed was the one silver bullet which would eliminate the triple evils of...
More »Demonetisation achieved objectives quite substantially: Government
-PTI New Delhi: The government said demonetisation of high-value currency notes in November 2016 achieved the objectives “quite substantially” even as the Reserve Bank of India reported most of the demonetised currency was back with the banks. The RBI annual report released on Wednesday said 99.3% of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 junked notes came back to banks. “I think demonetisation has achieved its objective quite substantially,” economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra...
More »99.40% of demonetised notes returned: RBI
-The Hindu Business Line Value of banknotes in circulation increased to Rs 18.03 lakh crore as at end-March 2018 Mumbai: Close to 99.40 per cent of specified bank notes (SBNs) of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denominations, which were scrapped in the November-December 2016 period, have been returned from circulation, according to the Reserve Bank of India's annual report. The report pegged the total SBNs returned from circulation at Rs 15.31 lakh crore....
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