Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:39:14
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her fight against demonetisation would continue despite the “Centre’s tactics of browbeating my party.” Stating that TMC parliamentary party leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay has received three calls from CBI, she said “Nothing will deter us from the fight against demonetisation”.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:35:10
Banks can’t turn away customers depositing pre-2005 currency notes, including the junked 500 and 1,000 rupee bills, the Reserve Bank said on Monday.
In a clarification, the RBI said these specified bank notes (SBNs) would also include pre-2005 banknotes in the denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:28:54
Justifying demonetisation as a step taken for the betterment of the country, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it has helped in checking terrorism and naxalism.
"The decision on note ban has not been taken either for ourselves or for a handful of people but for the entire country so that there is no scope left for corruption," he said at BJP's 'Parivartan rally' at ITI ground in
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:26:12
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was fully prepared to deal with currency shortages post demonetisation and has enough currency in its chests to last "far beyond" December 30, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday.
"There was full preparedness. There was not a single day when RBI had not released adequate currency to banks. There was a certain level of currency that was to be released a
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:23:19
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday asked why the country's premier probe agencies are not showing the same urgency to convict the accused in all terror cases, a day after a special NIA court awarded death penalty to five IM operatives, including Yasin Bhatkal, in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts case.
In a series of tweets, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP questioned the NIA and also mounted a
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:26:34
Kumta: The significant muslim organization of Kumta, Jamat-Ul-Muslimeen hosted a grand conference on "Seerat-UnNabi Wa Islaahe Muashira" in Kumta on 19th December, Monday. The program held at the Yusuf Khan compound located at Muslim street in Kumta.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:01:20
India pulled the curtains down on England's winter of discontent in the manner befitting their dominance as the hosts clinched the five-match series 4-0 with an innings and 75-run victory in the fifth and final cricket Test here today. Spinner Ravindra Jadeja was the hero of the day as he returned exceptional figures of 7/48 to spell doom for England.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:57:36
Taking another swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the constant stream of announcements and notifications post demonetisation, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was changing the rules just like Modi changed his clothes throughout the day while addressing several rallies.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:47:43
The Council of Ministers on Monday reiterated its strong condemnation of the continuing brutality in the city of Aleppo where innocent people are exposed to killings, siege, starvation, displacement and the violation of human rights.
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