-The Hindu Business Line Chennai tops in seizure of money, Delhi is a distant second New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has said that no counterfeit currency was seized by any of its agencies during searches conducted between November 8 and December 30. In a written response to questions posed by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, which is looking into demonetisation and its impact on monetary policy, the Ministry said an amount of Rs....
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The majority at the margins -Jayati Ghosh
-The Indian Express Protests by the people against inequality are producing governments that move exactly in the opposite direction We all know that the world is an unequal place, both across and within countries. We also know that across the world, people are expressing their anger and disgust at this inequality. This is increasingly revealed in extreme and often paradoxical political results. In the US, a vote against the establishment has just...
More »Government spends Rs 3.09 per Rs 500 currency note: RTI
-IANS RBI buys the currency notes from the Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) spends Rs 3.09 for each Rs 500 note as cost towards paper, printing and other charges, an RTI query has revealed. The information was given here on Friday to Mumbai Right To Information activist Anil Galgali on his query on the printing costs incurred by the government for printing Rs 500...
More »Give answers on note ban in writing, an unhappy PAC tells RBI governor -Amit Agnihotri
-Business Standard The governor did not give specific answers on who initiated the note ban New Delhi: Unsatisfied with the responses of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel to specific queries on demonetisation, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Friday asked him to furnish written replies to the concerns expressed by the members within two weeks and appear before the panel again. Patel, along with Deputy Governor R Gandhi...
More »Want to know how India's richest 1 percent are wealthier than the bottom 70 per cent? Read on -Leela Prasad
-The Indian Express Studying micro economies such as Bastar gives us the tools to highlight the rising inequality between the bourgeoise and proletariat. New Delhi: In Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar’s meticulously researched book, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar, the plight of the adivasis struggling to make ends meet paints a striking picture of the growing wage disparity in the “Maoist state”. Wages paid to the adivasis are strictly controlled...
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