-The Financial Express A whopping 60% Indians said that black money in the country has not died; in fact, its circulation is going to only increase before the 2019 General Elections, a survey by LocalCircles showed. Two years of demonetisation: Two years ago, when 125 crore Indians glued to their television screens desperately awaiting a surprise address by the Prime Minister of India, little did they know that he was going to...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 2481
Havoc unleashed by demonetisation evident to everyone now, says former PM Manmohan Singh
-ThePrint.in In a statement issued on the second anniversary of demonetisation, former PM Manmohan Singh urged against ‘unorthodox, short-term economic measures’. Today marks the second anniversary of the ill-fated and ill-thought demonetisation exercise that the Narendra Modi government undertook in 2016. The havoc that it unleashed on the Indian economy and society is now evident to everyone. Notebandi impacted every single person, regardless of age, gender, religion, occupation or creed. It is often...
More »Explained: How 100 frauds hit banks -Rahul Tripathi
-The Indian Express CVC report analyses 100 major frauds on public sector banks, committed by borrowers from 13 sectors. Among them, an aviation firm that got loans based on its brand name in spite of a poor credit rating; and jewellers who allegedly inflated value of diamonds and submitted fake details on debtors. New Delhi: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) recently came out with a report that analyses the top 100 bank...
More »Govt wants Rs 3.6 lakh crore from RBI, a third of its reserves, central bank says no -Sunny Verma
-The Indian Express Last Wednesday, the finance ministry said that the autonomy for the RBI “is an essential” and both the government and the RBI have to be “guided by public interest and the requirements of the Indian economy”. New Delhi: AT the heart of the RBI-government standoff is a proposal by the Finance Ministry seeking to transfer a surplus of Rs 3.6 lakh crore, more than a third of the...
More »Demonetisation: A circus, clowns and a silver bullet -James Wilson
-National Herald Two 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...
More »
