-The Hindu Business line THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A US Climate Prediction Centre forecast suggests that the moderate to heavy monsoon conditions would prevail over most parts of the country until the month-end. The latest spell, now almost a week old, is being mainly attributed to the influence of erstwhile typhoon Doksuri that rammed into the Vietnamese coast the other day. TYPHOON REMNANT Westward tracking storms or typhoons in the North-West Pacific/South China Sea have always had...
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Revisiting demonestisation: 'If the notes have come back, why not the lost jobs?' -Abhishek Dey
-Scroll.in In Delhi’s largest industrial area, many are still struggling to find work. “If 99% of the demonetised currency has returned [to the banking system], then why haven’t the jobs that demonetisation took away from us come back too?” asked Bajrang Yadav, 45, standing in a waterlogged lane outside his home in a slum cluster in West Delhi’s Mayapuri area last Sunday. Yadav was referring to the Reserve Bank of India’s annual report...
More »Demonetisation: In value, digital deals surge, then dip to 5-month -Sunny Verma & Pranav Mukul
-The Indian Express Demonetisation: On digital transactions, too, RBI data shows that the volume of electronic payments, after peaking in December 2016 at 957.50 million transactions compared with 671.49 million in November, has been on a decline. New Delhi: When it launched the currency withdrawal in November, the NDA government had outlined four key objectives of the demonetisation exercise: detection of black money, elimination of fake currency, squeezing funds available for...
More »North Block verdict: Wilful neglect -Imran Ahmed Siddiqui
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Union home ministry sources today blamed the Haryana government's "wilful neglect" and "abject surrender to lumpen elements" for yesterday's mayhem by Dera Sacha Sauda followers. "Initial assessment reports from the ground suggest a complete administrative and police failure. There was no leadership and no instruction from the police brass to deal with the mob. The will was lacking," a senior ministry bureaucrat told The Telegraph . "It points to...
More »Fact check: From LPG subsidies to maternity leave, comparing Modi's I-Day claims with the data -Nitin Sethi & Nayantara Narayanan
-Scroll.in The prime minister’s Independence Day speech was more of a laundry list of achievements, with few new announcements. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Tuesday was not only his shortest Independence Day address so far, it also had little by way of major announcements. Aside from a few one-liners calling for Indians to change their attitudes and for a different approach to Kashmir, Modi’s annual speech from the Red Fort...
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