-The Hindu To prevent further damage to the economy and to relieve distress, demonetisation should be revoked immediately Without adequate preparation or thought, the monetary authorities and the government have taken a drastic step declaring as worthless over 86 per cent by value of the currency notes in circulation with the public. A prior large increase of lower denomination notes should have been ensured through banks and ATMs, so that overall money...

-HuffingtonPost.com As the poor struggle, black money owners are finding a variety of ways to save their wealth. In Pali in Rajasthan, a family couldn't take their ill infant to the hospital because the ambulance wouldn't accept Rs 500 or 1,000 notes. By the time they could get someone to give them Rs 100 notes, the newborn had died. This is one of several such deaths after the government de-legalised Rs 500...

-The Telegraph The death of more than 50 dengue patients in eight city hospitals this year offers a peek into the severity of the menace but the extent of the crisis remains unknown in the absence of figures from the government. To put things in perspective, the disease caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito had claimed less than 20 lives across the state last year. The Mamata Banerjee government's decision to prefer secrecy...

-Scroll.in But the district health administration refutes claims of a 'mystery virus'. The causes of death were different in each case, they say. Just 10 minutes of rain in Sarfabad village in Noida township caused floods in its bylanes. Children who decided that it was time to play wading in the blackish sewage water. The roads are lined with mounds of garbage. On Friday, civic authorities had removed silt from the gutters...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The road transport and highways ministry will install speed guns (equipment to record the speed of as well as film a moving vehicle) on national highways and deploy advanced ambulances with vehicle-cutting equipment on certain stretches for the immediate rescue of accident victims. Announcing the government's plans to crack down on speeding on highways, Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said errant drivers will...