Black Money Debate

On day two, today, the Lok Sabha will debate cases of fraud and scams in the banking sector under Rule 193 which does not entail voting at the end of the discussion. The Congress has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on steps being taken by him to bring back the accused in bank frauds, and alleged that the pe...

As the opposition scaled up its attacks on the government after the Reserve Bank of India revealed that only 1 per cent of demonetised currency did not return to the system, the government appears to have shifted the goalpost.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shifting the debate from black economy to cashless economy following demonetisation, Delhi's ruling AAP said on Monday.

After a short but precise speech in which Dr Manmohan Singh said the government's mishandling of the ban on high-denomination notes amounts to "organised loot, legalised plunder," Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked over to his predecessor and shook hands when parliament broke for lunch.

Amid raging debates over demonetisation, black money and a withdrawal limit of Rs 2.5 lakh for weddings, a man in Gurugram has arranged a "helicopter palanquin" to bring home his wife on Thursday.

After Parliament was disrupted over demonetisation, the Government today accused the opposition of finding excuses to scuttle a debate on the issue as it was boomeranging and going against them.

Left leader Sitaram Yechury borrowed from a meme being shared on social media to take a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he criticised the way the government has pulled Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes to combat black or untaxed money.

Ram Gopal Yadav, opposition leader, advised the government today to send its ministers to a village soon. "The women, they will hit you on the head with a rolling pin," he said in parliament about public sentiment on the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

As parliament debated the currency ban, union minister Piyush Goyal of the BJP thanked the opposition Congress for bringing up the surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army across the Line of Control against terror bases in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September.

A united opposition launched a vigorous attack on the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of parliament's winter session. All the action was in Rajya Sabha, where the Congress dared PM Modi to make an intervention tomorrow. Other parties demanded a probe into what they called a "leakage" of the information of the currency b...

Sonia Gandhi today made a rare dash towards the Speaker's Chair in the Lok Sabha to join her Congress lawmakers in protest after a BJP lawmaker alleged that the Indian Premier League or IPL involved her family's black money - the term given for untaxed money parked in foreign accounts.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been accused by a BJP lawmaker of sending him a "threatening" SMS for a swipe at him during a debate in Parliament on black money, or untaxed money parked in foreign accounts.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been accused by a BJP lawmaker of sending him a "threatening" SMS for making allegations against him during a debate on black money, or untaxed money parked in foreign accounts, in Parliament.

On the second day of the ongoing debate on black money in Parliament, senior BJP leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the NDA had not promised to bring back black money stashed abroad within 100 days of coming to power - which had been the key charge of the Opposition.

The Government today insisted in Lok Sabha that it had never claimed that all the black money stashed abroad would be brought back within 100 days even as opposition continued to target it over the issue.

On day two, today, the Lok Sabha will debate cases of fraud and scams in the banking sector under Rule 193 which does not entail voting at the end of the discussion. The Congress has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on steps being taken by him to bring back the accused in bank frauds, and alleged that the pe...

As the opposition scaled up its attacks on the government after the Reserve Bank of India revealed that only 1 per cent of demonetised currency did not return to the system, the government appears to have shifted the goalpost.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shifting the debate from black economy to cashless economy following demonetisation, Delhi's ruling AAP said on Monday.

After a short but precise speech in which Dr Manmohan Singh said the government's mishandling of the ban on high-denomination notes amounts to "organised loot, legalised plunder," Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked over to his predecessor and shook hands when parliament broke for lunch.

Amid raging debates over demonetisation, black money and a withdrawal limit of Rs 2.5 lakh for weddings, a man in Gurugram has arranged a "helicopter palanquin" to bring home his wife on Thursday.

After Parliament was disrupted over demonetisation, the Government today accused the opposition of finding excuses to scuttle a debate on the issue as it was boomeranging and going against them.

Left leader Sitaram Yechury borrowed from a meme being shared on social media to take a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he criticised the way the government has pulled Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes to combat black or untaxed money.

Ram Gopal Yadav, opposition leader, advised the government today to send its ministers to a village soon. "The women, they will hit you on the head with a rolling pin," he said in parliament about public sentiment on the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

As parliament debated the currency ban, union minister Piyush Goyal of the BJP thanked the opposition Congress for bringing up the surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army across the Line of Control against terror bases in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September.

A united opposition launched a vigorous attack on the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of parliament's winter session. All the action was in Rajya Sabha, where the Congress dared PM Modi to make an intervention tomorrow. Other parties demanded a probe into what they called a "leakage" of the information of the currency b...

Sonia Gandhi today made a rare dash towards the Speaker's Chair in the Lok Sabha to join her Congress lawmakers in protest after a BJP lawmaker alleged that the Indian Premier League or IPL involved her family's black money - the term given for untaxed money parked in foreign accounts.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been accused by a BJP lawmaker of sending him a "threatening" SMS for a swipe at him during a debate in Parliament on black money, or untaxed money parked in foreign accounts.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been accused by a BJP lawmaker of sending him a "threatening" SMS for making allegations against him during a debate on black money, or untaxed money parked in foreign accounts, in Parliament.

On the second day of the ongoing debate on black money in Parliament, senior BJP leader and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the NDA had not promised to bring back black money stashed abroad within 100 days of coming to power - which had been the key charge of the Opposition.

The Government today insisted in Lok Sabha that it had never claimed that all the black money stashed abroad would be brought back within 100 days even as opposition continued to target it over the issue.