-The Asian Age Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the CVC. New Delhi: Common Cause organisation has approached the Supreme Court regarding bribes paid to prominent politicians by corporate groups, as revealed during the raids by Income Tax department and the CBI in 2013 and 2014. Advocate Prashant Bhushan has filed this application in the pending petition challenging the arbitrary appointment of the chief...
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Demonetisation move leaves farming community shaken -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Scarcity of ?100 notes hits kharif harvesting; decline in demand worsens situation Hyderabad: Ram Singh (name changed), a 45-year-old farmer near Ranjim, a tehsil in Chhattisgarh, stood impatiently in the long queue, waiting for his turn to swap a bunch of old notes for new. “I don’t want the new notes. I’m desperately looking for ?100 notes that I need to pay to the labourers that I have...
More »Artificially created distress -Utsa Patnaik
-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...
More »13 Ways In Which Indians Will Convert Their Black Money Into White Even After Demonetisation -Shivam Vij
-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...
More »Motive behind demonetisation is justifiable but there may be collateral damage
There are reports from all over the country that the recent decision by the government to demonetise currency notes of Rs. 500/- and Rs. 1000/- denomination has affected everyone. However the consequence of this financial measure is lopsided and it will be mainly borne by the farmers, informal sector workers, women and the financially excluded. Please check the links/ urls below this news alert to know everything about demonetisation. Till a few...
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