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"If 100 Died In Notes Ban Queues, Why Not Shaheen Bagh?": Shocker By BJP's Dilip Ghosh

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Tuesday January 28, 2020

Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday kicked up yet another controversy by questioning why nobody was dying at the Shaheen Bagh protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed that 100 people lost their lives waiting in line to withdraw money from banks during the demonetisation initiative over three ...

Priyanka Gandhi's Notes Ban Parallel As She Joins Protests At India Gate

India News | Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Friday December 20, 2019

Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday visited India Gate in Delhi to show solidarity with students who are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Law, whose passage in parliament last week has led to the eruption of violent agitations in several parts of the country.

Note Ban, Jan Dhan Yojana, GST, Mega Bank Mergers: A Recap Of Key Turning Points In 2010s

Business | Written by Peter Noronha | Friday December 20, 2019

An array of developments, ranging from GST and demonetisation to corporate tax rate cut and banking reforms, has transformed the economic landscape of the country.

"No Need To Worry": Minister Dismisses Reports On Banning Rs 2,000 Note

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 10, 2019

Dismissing reports that the government is set to withdraw Rs 2000 denomination note, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur today said there was no need to worry about it.

Tamil Nadu Sisters Who Lost Rs 45,000 In Note Ban Get Monthly Pension

India News | Written by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Saturday November 30, 2019

The Tiruppur district administration has approved the release of monthly old-age pension for two elderly women who lost over Rs 45,000 to the demonetisation initiative in 2016.

Mamata Banerjee, On Notes Ban Anniversary, Calls It "Futile Exercise"

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 8, 2019

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday described the notes ban as a "futile exercise" and said the BJP-led central government's move to ban high-value currency notes on this day in 2016 ruined the country's economy.

"Won't Let India Forgive Or Forget": Sonia Gandhi On Notes Ban Anniversary

India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday November 8, 2019

Congress president Sonia Gandhi sent across a scorching message to the central government on the third anniversary of its demonetisation initiative today, promising to ensure that the people neither forgive nor forget the "Tughlaqi blunder" that had brought the nation's economy to its knees.

"3 Years Since The Demonetisation Terror Attack": Rahul Gandhi Hits Out

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Friday November 8, 2019

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday likened demonetisation to a "terror attack" as he led the Congress in targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the third anniversary of the announcement of an overnight ban on high value notes that wiped out 86 per cent of currency.

"Didn't Slay Evils... Was A Disaster": Priyanka Gandhi On Demonetisation Anniversary

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday November 8, 2019

On the third anniversary of the centre's demonetisation policy, leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, describing demonetisation as a "disaster" that almost destroyed the Indian economy

Maharashtra Election 2019: "Economy Not Run By Ambani, Adani, But By Poor People": Rahul Gandhi

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 16, 2019

Maharashtra Elections 2019: In a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused it of pursuing wrong economic policies like the notes ban and GST, resulting in increased unemployment.

How Nobel Winner Abhijit Banerjee Described State Of Indian Economy

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday October 15, 2019

Abhijit Banerjee, Economics Nobel winner this year along with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, recently delivered a sharp critique of the Indian economy and rated the fall in consumption as "extremely serious".

India's Payment Apps Race To Catch Up With China In Squeezing Out Cash

Business | Suvashree Ghosh and Anto Antony, Bloomberg | Friday August 16, 2019

In India, digital payments have climbed more than five times since 2015 to 22.4 transactions per person in the year ended March, Reserve Bank of India figures show.

"BJP Will Beat Rajiv Gandhi's Record If...": Yashwant Sinha On Kashmir

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Tuesday August 6, 2019

Ending the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir would further alienate people of the state but if national elections were held any time soon, the populist step would win the BJP a bigger victory than even Rajiv Gandhi's landslide in 1984 following the assassination of mother Indira Gandhi, Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Monday.

BJP Buying Lawmakers With Notes Ban Cash, Alleges Digvijaya Singh

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday July 12, 2019

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday claimed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had made so much money during demonetisation that it was now "buying" MLAs.

Notes Ban, Aadhaar Spurred Digital Payments Growth: RBI

Business | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday June 8, 2019

The study revealed that over the years, the number of debit and credit cards also increased considerably in India.