Cash Clean Up

The Uttar Pradesh government is charging Rs 20 per quintal in cash in the name of unloading and cleaning charges for wheat procured from farmers and has not reimbursed them in the last three years, an MP in Rajya Sabha alleged.

It is a classroom with flow charts and diagrams on its walls. But instead of neat rows of students, two women dance to Bhojpuri music, surrounded by men appearing to thoroughly enjoy the show as they shower cash on the dancers. The video of a classroom at a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur turned into a dance bar has triggered an inqui...

Clean environment, 24X7 power and water supply are usually the top issues on voters mind in Uttar Pradesh's tourist capital Agra. But this year, demonetisation or the cash ban is a major issue as the move has badly hit the tourism industry.

In an attempt to clean up the murky world of political party funding, the government has announced that donations in cash, currently allowed up to Rs 20,000 without explaining the source, will now be capped at Rs 2,000.

Big deposits of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes in the days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's currency ban are coming under the scanner with the use of a new government software. Swacch Dhan is inspired by Swaach Bharat -- if one was about Clean India, the other is about Clean Money, a reflection of the government's anti-corruption drive. The November ...

Any move to clean up India's messy real estate market could prove to be a mammoth and messy task and would come even as the Modi government is facing mounting criticism of its handling of the cash crunch that followed the scrapping of higher denomination currency notes.

Faced with chaos after eliminating India's highest value rupee notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has roped in a billionaire from the ranks of his adversaries to help.

BJP partner Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena has suggested a Brexit-style referendum on the notes ban, also suggesting that the centre consider former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments in Parliament today seriously as they come from a "renowned economist".

Arvind Kejriwal, among the most voluble critics of the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, has said "it is anti-national to support demonetisation in (its) current form."

There are instances where ironically, people filing their income tax returns and living a clean life are forced to withdraw cash from their legitimate bank accounts cash for such transactions, according to industry chamber Assocham.

States are gearing up to sell up to Rs 49,000 crore in debt to foreign investors for the first time, stepping up competition for funds that could force the country's spendthrift provinces to clean up their books and tighten spending controls.

The Uttar Pradesh government is charging Rs 20 per quintal in cash in the name of unloading and cleaning charges for wheat procured from farmers and has not reimbursed them in the last three years, an MP in Rajya Sabha alleged.

It is a classroom with flow charts and diagrams on its walls. But instead of neat rows of students, two women dance to Bhojpuri music, surrounded by men appearing to thoroughly enjoy the show as they shower cash on the dancers. The video of a classroom at a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur turned into a dance bar has triggered an inqui...

Clean environment, 24X7 power and water supply are usually the top issues on voters mind in Uttar Pradesh's tourist capital Agra. But this year, demonetisation or the cash ban is a major issue as the move has badly hit the tourism industry.

In an attempt to clean up the murky world of political party funding, the government has announced that donations in cash, currently allowed up to Rs 20,000 without explaining the source, will now be capped at Rs 2,000.

Big deposits of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes in the days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's currency ban are coming under the scanner with the use of a new government software. Swacch Dhan is inspired by Swaach Bharat -- if one was about Clean India, the other is about Clean Money, a reflection of the government's anti-corruption drive. The November ...

Any move to clean up India's messy real estate market could prove to be a mammoth and messy task and would come even as the Modi government is facing mounting criticism of its handling of the cash crunch that followed the scrapping of higher denomination currency notes.

Faced with chaos after eliminating India's highest value rupee notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has roped in a billionaire from the ranks of his adversaries to help.

BJP partner Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena has suggested a Brexit-style referendum on the notes ban, also suggesting that the centre consider former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments in Parliament today seriously as they come from a "renowned economist".

Arvind Kejriwal, among the most voluble critics of the ban on 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, has said "it is anti-national to support demonetisation in (its) current form."

There are instances where ironically, people filing their income tax returns and living a clean life are forced to withdraw cash from their legitimate bank accounts cash for such transactions, according to industry chamber Assocham.

States are gearing up to sell up to Rs 49,000 crore in debt to foreign investors for the first time, stepping up competition for funds that could force the country's spendthrift provinces to clean up their books and tighten spending controls.