The list of businesses affected was long: wedding planners, bands, ceremonial horse suppliers, tent providers and caterers interviewed across the capital reported facing a drop of up to 30 percent in business.
Banks are seeing temporary costs pile up, as they pay overtime to employees and hire additional security guards to manage crowds depositing old banknotes before a year-end deadline or swapping them for new ones.
Pawar has slammed Modi for dragging Indira Gandhi into demonetisation debate
Large deposits cannot be made multiple times
'"Nothing will happen in 50 days. The PM will give your money to the rich. Modi wants to waive off bank loans,' Rahul Gandhi said
RBI had last week said that Rs 12.44 lakh crore in demonetised notes have been collected at banks
Modi's demonetisation move has led to severe cash crunch as RBI has replaced barely a third of the higher-value notes
The former Union minister said there are four sources from where the cash is distributed in the country
He adds that the decision had also resulted in huge caches of black money being unearthed
The incident took place outside a bank in south-east Delhi's Jaitpur area
The recent demonetisation should be judged to have delivered some immediate gain if at least around Rs 2 trillion gets immobilised
Three men have been arrested, police said
Interview with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
Political parties have not been granted any exemption post demonetisation and introduction of Taxation Laws, says FM
For the first time in the history of India, Prime Minister has attacked the poor people of this country
Kejriwal asks Centre to make public details of money deposited by all political parties post-demonetisation
Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia says political parties can't accept old 500- and 1,000-rupee notes as donations as they have ceased to be legal tender
Sugar sales to decline by 9.5% in Oct-Dec
The accounts of each such political party is to be audited by a chartered accountant
The only time there was some respite from the war of words between the govt and the Opposition was when the obits were read