-Scroll.in The shock move devastated India’s informal economy. Many small businesses never recovered, as a supply chain at the intersection of diamonds and plastic shows. Up till 8.30 pm on the night of November 8, 2016, Muniram Yadav was blissfully unaware of the announcement that had shaken the country just thirty minutes before. He was engrossed in work, in a tiny workshop in Mumbai’s Sakinaka suburb, supervising four labourers as they carried...

-TheNewsMinute.com The film is based on real events, and the character Sengani played by Lijomol Jose, is based on Parvathi. Actor, director and choreographer Raghava Lawrence has announced that he will build a house for Parvathi, whose life events inspired the recent Tamil film Jai Bhim. The film, which has won wide critical acclaim, tells the story of a landmark legal battle led by Sengani (based on Parvathi) and lawyer Chandru, when...

-National Herald Five 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 black...

&NBSp;-Scroll.in There must be consultation and greater co-ordination between the Reserve Bank as the regulator of money supply and the government as the sovereign. While the entire Indian economy was disrupted by the demonetisation exercise announced on November 8, 2016, removing high-value currency notes overnight, it simultaneously stirred a serious controversy on the role of Reserve Bank of India as the principal regulator of money supply in India. In understanding the controversial conduct...

-Press release by the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat dated 8th November, 2021 In a recent&NBSp;letter to Shri. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the Right to Food Campaign Secretariat -- a civil society organisation working on food and nutrition security in the country -- has recommended&NBSp;for further extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) till May 2022.&NBSp; Against the backdrop of uncertainty over livelihoods...