Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Benerjee on Wednesday led a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi demanding a rollback of the policy of demonetisation from Prime Minister Modi, citing inconvenience caused to the general public. Now another TMC leader and West Bengal state power minister[Read More…]
As part of a high-level bureaucratic reshuffle, the government on Wednesday shifted coal secretary Anil Swarup to the Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) as Secretary, School Education and Literacy. He was replaced by Susheel Kumar who is at present serving as Secretary, Department of Border Management in the Home[Read More…]
Punjab Congress President, Captain Amarinder Singh announced on Wednesday that Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of Navjot Singh Sidhu, and Pargat Singh will join the Congress on November 28. In a tweet, Amarinder Singh said, “I am pleased to announce that Dr. Navjot Kaur Sidhu & Pargat Singh will formally[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh, the most populated state of the country is all set to go for elections in a few months. Ruling Samajwadi Party’s chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has formally launched the party’s election campaign from Ghazipur on Wednesday in order to woo the electorate. Early this month, UP chief minister Akhilesh[Read More…]
Advisor to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, Amitabh Mattoo, on Wedneday tendered his resignation citing personal reasons. “Yes, I have tendered my resignation due to personal reasons. I want to spend some time with my family,” Mattoo, who was appointed as an advisor in April this year with[Read More…]
Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has become the latest victim of demonetisation when a hospital in Mangaluru denied taking old currencies to settle the bill for the treatment of his brother, DV Bhaskar who later died. Bhaskar was undertaking treatment at the Kasturba medical college in Mangaluru. He was suffering[Read More…]
As the dates for the Punjab Assembly Polls get closer, uncertainty still looms large over the candidature of key contestants including that of sports person-turned politicians Navjot Singh Sidhu and Pargat Singh. The main political parties including Congress, BJP and AAP are burning midnight fuel to get former BJP MP[Read More…]
Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that the government will announce more steps to ease the cash crunch in rural areas. “The situation is normalising in the urban areas. In the next few days, the focus will be on the rural areas so that farmers have enough funds because[Read More…]
The NIA and state security agencies have so far arrested 68 supporters of dreaded terror outfit ISIS in various parts of the country, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday . “The National Investigation Agency and state security agencies have so far arrested 68 ISIS supporters/sympathisers,” Minister of State for Home[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked the people to directly convey their views to him on demonetisation via his App. He asked the public to participate in a survey where a number of questions have been posed with regard to scrapping of old ₹ 500 and ₹ 1000 currency[Read More…]
In a historical event, eight Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets touched down on Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, India’s longest expressway, as it opens to public on Monday. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was present when his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav opened the Agra-Lucknow Expressway at[Read More…]
The government on Monday allowed farmers to purchase seeds with the old ₹500 bank notes, declared illegal less than two weeks ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The new rule allows farmers to purchase seeds with old denomination bank notes of ₹ 500 from outlets belonging to the central or[Read More…]
Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis has said those opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on demonetisation were harming the country and people should come together to “win this decisive battle against black money”. “We are going towards a new economic independence. In this battle for economic independence, the person who stands[Read More…]
The Narendra Modi-led government claims that the demonetisation move is aimed at dealing with the menace of domestic black money but the party has failed to implement study of a task force constituted by it to retrieve the black money. Instead of implementing recommendations of its own task force, the[Read More…]
Senior BJP leader and union minister Uma Bharti said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was following the teachings of Karl Marx. “Ye Marxwadiyon ka agenda hai jo PM laagu kar rahe hain. Jo kabhi Lohia ne kaha, kabhi Kanshi Ram ne kaha. Balki sahi mein, Marx ne jo kaha, Pradhan[Read More…]
Indian Navy on Friday denied the Pakistani Navy claim that it had prevented an Indian submarine from entering its territorial water. “Indian Navy categorically denies the statement of Pakistani Navy as blatant lies,” Navy spokesperson Captain D K Sharma said. He added that the Indian Navy did not have any[Read More…]
As soon as people got to know that Sushma Swaraj is undergoing dialysis in AIIMS, the hospital is flooded with calls with kidney donation offers. The phone start ringing hours after Sushma tweeted about her kidney failure on Wednesday. “I cannot remember the exact number of calls that I have[Read More…]
BJP MLA from Ladpura in Rajasthan’s Kota district Bhawani Singh Rajawat has purportedly claimed that Ambani and Adani had prior knowledge of the demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000, as shown in a video released online. “Adani, Ambani atram-satram in sab ko pehle hi pata thha. Inko hint de diya gaya.[Read More…]
The government on Thursday announced that the central government employees up to Group ‘C’ now can draw salary advance up to ₹10,000 in cash that’ll be adjusted against their November salaries. Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech stated that interim provisions have[Read More…]
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a strong debate on government’s demonetisation scheme. Anand Sharma ,Congress deputy leader in Rajya Sabha ,led the opposition’ charge. “86% of the currency in the markets was 500/1000 notes, was scrapped by just one announcement. Was it all black?” Sharma asked. CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury[Read More…]
After leading a march of opposition parties to Rashtrapati Bhawan on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said now common people have to wait for cash to arrive in ATMs, which was initially meant to dispense cash whenever a user needed it. “Initially ATM meant ‘All time Money’ now[Read More…]
Goa government employees have demanded that their salary for the current month be paid in cash rather than be deposited in bank accounts, considering the difficulties faced to withdraw money. Goa Government Employees Association (GGEA), in a written communication to Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, said, “to make the withdrawal of[Read More…]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said Pakistan cannot be bullied by Indian “tactics” and its restraint should not be “misunderstood” as weakness, warning that his country was fully capable of defending against “any belligerence”. His remarks came a day after the Pakistan Army admitted that seven of its soldiers[Read More…]
A senior lawyer appointed to assist the Supreme Court in the 2012 Nirbhaya fatal gangrape case as “amicus curiae” has urged the judges not to send the four death row convicts to the gallows, saying they are too young to be hanged. The SC is hearing appeals of Mukesh (24),[Read More…]
A 45-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide as he was apparently upset over not being able to get his high-denomination notes exchanged for fresh ones due to serpentine queues in banks. The farmer Ravi Pradhan’s wife Pushplata claimed that he was in urgent need of money to help their two sons[Read More…]
