Page 25 - Demonetisation

Economics Nobel winner supported demonetisation but not new currency

Thaler today won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Demonetisation helped reduce terror activities in Kashmir: Arun Jaitley

The demonetisation has resulted in a sharp reduction in insurgent and terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir where stone throwers were no longer active in the last 8-10 months, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. He made the remarks while refuting the impression that transformational initiatives like 'Swachh Bharat', GST and demonetisation have not resulted in any changes on the ground. The finance minister said following the demonetisation, there has been sharp reduction in insurgent and terror activities in states like Jammu & Kashmir and Chhattisgarh. The terror funding itself has gotten squeezed, Jaitley said in a keynote address via video conference - to the Berkeley India Conference yesterday ahead of his visit to the US to interact with the corporate world and attend the annual meeting of IMF and World Bank in Washington DC. "You are having terrorist incidents (now), but the fact that you were finding 5,000-10,000 stone throwers being provided with money by ...

Demonetisation: Heat on tax dept to prove Rs 3 lakh cr unaccounted cash

MoS finance will visit Mumbai on Monday to discuss how to take stock of unaccounted bank deposits

Demonetisation a dud

Sushma Swaraj and her fellow party leaders are oblivious to the sufferings of the public

Demonetisation: Govt employees under CVC lens over deposit of old notes

The CBDT is looking into certain suspected deposits made by various individuals, CVC chief Chowdary said

Mundra defends demonetisation, says hopes of money not returning unmet

He said that there was an expectation that good portion of money might not come back, due to demonetisation, which was unmet

No machines used for counting scrapped notes, says RBI in RTI reply

RBI, however, refused to reveal number of personnel deployed for counting the notes in RTI

Nobody knows how the idea of note ban crept into Modi's mind: Rahul Gandhi

May be Modi didn't like the design of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, says Rahu Gandhi

Demonetisation helped thieves convert black money to white: Rahul Gandhi

He alleged that the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were busy dividing society

Had come back to India to exchange scrapped notes: Raghuram Rajan

Rajan said he was asked about his views on demonetisation by the government in February 2016

GDP slowdown not linked to demonetisation: Amit Shah

Fall in GDP was temporary and due to technical reasons, says Amit Shah

Lessons learnt and unlearnt

The govt has claimed that number of 'suspicious' cash deposit transactions has gone up by six times

Rs 2.89 lakh cr deposited post note ban by 0.97 mn people under I-T radar

I-T says 14,000 properties of over Rs 1 crore each under scrutiny as owners have not filed returns

Reading beyond sweet little lies: Demonetisation failed, let's admit it

Despite frenzy of distractions, an unimpassioned look at numbers reveals that little was achieved

Demonetisation: An interim assessment

If there's truth in allegation that it was a hasty decision, declaring it failure may be equally so

Modi govt has no clue about economy: Chidambaram

Govt cannot deliver on growth and jobs in 1,200 days in power, says Chidambaram

No information on black money removed by note ban: RBI to Parl panel

The RBI has been facing flak from the opposition parties for demonetisation

Demonetisation: An assessment after nine months

Demonetisation achievement is that it has brought social revolution against black money & corruption

Demonetisation doubts

Three questions the govt must answer after RBI revealed number of demonetised notes that it got back

Demonetisation: Did enough money come back to RBI?