Plastic Currency

US dollars worth Rs 42.25 lakh was found hidden inside plastic thread rolls at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.

A school in Nigeria is accepting plastic bottles in lieu of school fees from parents. The Recycle Pay project allows parents to use plastic waste as currency to pay their children's school fees.

As the Dera Sacha Sauda's headquarters in Haryana's Sirsa were searched over a week after the sect's leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was jailed for rape, plastic money used by the self-claimed spiritual guru's followers was discovered.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been authorised to conduct field trials for printing plastic notes of Rs 10 denomination.This information was shared by Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal in a written reply with the Lok Sabha. Plastic notes will have a longer life span.

In February 2014, the government had informed Parliament that one billion plastic notes of Rs 10 denomination would be introduced in a field trial in five cities selected for their geographical and climatic diversity.

Government today informed Parliament that a decision has been taken to print plastic currency notes and procurement of material has started.

In case the growing number of local stores and even vegetable/fruit vendors accepting app-based payments or plastic currency isn't evidence enough, here's definitive proof the country's really trying to embrace the concept of cashless transactions. A man in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, apparently paid for using a restroom by cheque, making it out to 'Publi...

More than 12,000 people signed a petition today demanding the withdrawal of Britain's newly- issued plastic five-pound banknotes that are manufactured using animal fat.

Plastic and textiles firm Sintex Industries on Thursday said it will raise up to Rs 1,538 crore via foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) and non-convertible debentures (NCDs).

Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote "Money, Money, Money," considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins.

The RBI for long had been planning to launch plastic currency notes after field trials. It had also received tender bids for one billion notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday made a case for greater use of plastic currency even as he stressed that development of new facilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in reducing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today made a case for greater use of plastic currency even as he stressed that development of new facilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in reducing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday pitched for greater use of "plastic money" and cheques saying that it would discourage use of unaccounted wealth and help in tackling the menace of black money.

Plastic currency notes would be launched in India in 2015 after field trials, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday.

US dollars worth Rs 42.25 lakh was found hidden inside plastic thread rolls at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.

A school in Nigeria is accepting plastic bottles in lieu of school fees from parents. The Recycle Pay project allows parents to use plastic waste as currency to pay their children's school fees.

As the Dera Sacha Sauda's headquarters in Haryana's Sirsa were searched over a week after the sect's leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was jailed for rape, plastic money used by the self-claimed spiritual guru's followers was discovered.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been authorised to conduct field trials for printing plastic notes of Rs 10 denomination.This information was shared by Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal in a written reply with the Lok Sabha. Plastic notes will have a longer life span.

In February 2014, the government had informed Parliament that one billion plastic notes of Rs 10 denomination would be introduced in a field trial in five cities selected for their geographical and climatic diversity.

Government today informed Parliament that a decision has been taken to print plastic currency notes and procurement of material has started.

In case the growing number of local stores and even vegetable/fruit vendors accepting app-based payments or plastic currency isn't evidence enough, here's definitive proof the country's really trying to embrace the concept of cashless transactions. A man in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, apparently paid for using a restroom by cheque, making it out to 'Publi...

More than 12,000 people signed a petition today demanding the withdrawal of Britain's newly- issued plastic five-pound banknotes that are manufactured using animal fat.

Plastic and textiles firm Sintex Industries on Thursday said it will raise up to Rs 1,538 crore via foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) and non-convertible debentures (NCDs).

Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote "Money, Money, Money," considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins.

The RBI for long had been planning to launch plastic currency notes after field trials. It had also received tender bids for one billion notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday made a case for greater use of plastic currency even as he stressed that development of new facilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in reducing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today made a case for greater use of plastic currency even as he stressed that development of new facilities at Hoshangabad and Mysore would help in reducing reliance on imports for printing of currency notes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday pitched for greater use of "plastic money" and cheques saying that it would discourage use of unaccounted wealth and help in tackling the menace of black money.

Plastic currency notes would be launched in India in 2015 after field trials, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday.