-The Economic Times MUMBAI: As India struggles with demonetization, individuals and businesses are using old currency notes to settle debts while income tax officials are at a loss how to go about imposing 200% penalty -- as announced by a senior finance ministry official -- on such funds flowing into banks. Firms are clearing dues to suppliers, depositing cash in bank accounts to repay old loans, and buying memberships of clubs, SPAs...
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Demonetisation: Zero balance accounts suddenly awash with cash in Andhra, Telangana
-TheNewsMinute.com The normal deposits ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 5000 have recently increased to Rs 10000. Due to the recent demonetisation of higher value notes, people in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are finding new ways to escape the system. Telangana has witnessed a sudden decrease in the number of ‘Zero Balance Accounts’ of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna from 26 lakh to 23.6 lakh. Nearly 2.5 lakh accounts were suddenly awash...
More »Passports don't need details of spouse or father: Panel to MEA -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express In its report submitted to the MEA, the panel has said that in keeping with global practices, the ministry must consider doing away with these details. New Delhi: IN VIEW of complaints, especially from women, of procedural harassment in passport offices, an inter-ministerial panel has recommended that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) should do away with the practice of printing details of a person’s father, mother or spouse...
More »Share of Muslims in jail bigger than in the population, show NCRB data -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express In Maharashtra, roughly every tenth person is Muslim, as opposed to almost every third inmate in its prisons. Muslims make up 15.8% of all convicts and 20.9% of all undertrials in jails across the country. This is higher than their share in the country’s population, which is 14.2%. But in some states, this gap is far wider. According to latest data on prisons by the National Crime Records Bureau...
More »Delhi's homeless - remembered only in winter -Bharat Dogra
-TheHoot.org Every winter stories are run about how the homeless need more shelters. During the monsoon and the heat – media silence. On World Homeless Day, BHARAT DOGRA argues for less seasonal coverage The homeless constitute the poorest section of our urban population and they live pretty close to where the media is based. Some of the highest concentrations of homeless people are within a 10 kms radius of the media hub...
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