-The Hindu The rankings serve as a trusted ready-reckoner for foreign investors looking to invest in a country Chennai: India’s leap in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings this year has slipped under the radar, in the cacophony over demonetisation and the RBI-Centre spat. The country has, in fact, been one of the biggest ‘improvers’ in the 2019 study, with its rank shooting up from 100 to 77, among 190 countries....

-PTI Says 7% growth not enough; centralisation of power a problem. Demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) are the two major headwinds that held back India’s economic growth last year, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has said, asserting that the current 7% growth rate is not enough to meet the country’s needs. Addressing an audience at the University of California in Berkeley on Friday, Rajan said for four years — 2012...

-The Hindu But forensic reports say notes are of poor quality, SECurity features not copied Two years after demonetisation, the fake currency notes seized so far are not of a high quality, a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has found. Another Home Ministry official said the network of same fake currency operators was still intact as two years ago, that pushed fake notes from the Bangladesh border. But there was not...

-Scroll.in On the SECond anniversary of the note ban, banker Meera Sanyal shares her experience of writing a book on the government’s great blunder. Some incidents are hard to forget – the death of a loved one, the moment one falls in love, the birth of a child. They remain etched in our memories with a vividness that transcends time. Occasionally, there is an incident that imprints itself on the collective memory...

-The Indian Express Two years after demonetisation came into effect on November 8, 2016, the BJP-led government continues to defend the move meant to "wipe out illegal money" while the Opposition terms the step as "ill-advised" and "Tughlaqi". Two years after demonetisation came into effect on November 8, 2016, the BJP-led government continues to defend the move meant to “wipe out illegal money” even as the Opposition terms the step as “ill-advised”...