Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said demonetisation had broken the backs of terrorism, drug and fake currency smuggling and human trafficking....
An unexpected migrant-propelled baby boom in Sweden has forced the "ill-prepared" Nordic nation to send many expecting mothers to neighbouring countries to deliver, media report said on Tuesday. ...
South Korea's largest flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co. said that it has instructed its flight attendants to more actively consider the use of force, including tasers, during cases of in-flight violence, a media reported on Tuesday...
Demonetisation has led to channeling of public savings into the formal sector, which is likely to give a boost to credit from the banks, that may go for a differentiated interest rate policy on the basis of creditworthiness of borrowers, a top industry body said on Monday. "Demonetisation has created an enormous opportunity to channelise pu...
Cracks seem to have appeared in the opposition's concerted campaign against demonetisation as several parties have pulled out of a joint press conference called by the Congress here on Tuesday over the contentious issue. Many important partners of the anti-demonetisation campaign, such as Janata Dal-United (JD-U), the Left, Nationalist C...
A mere four days before the demonetisation deadline of December 30, by when the pains of customers are supposed to allay -- as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said -- bankers seemed to nurse no hopes of any comfort and expected long queues to slither into the new year and into the months that follow. "The rush is still there and ...
Continuing his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that demonetisation was against the poor since only one per cent people in India hold black money and that too is invested in real estate, land and Swiss banks. "The note ban is a step taken against the poor, farmers and the middle-cla...
Though mobile data plans in India are among the cheapest in the world and average retail price of smartphones is steadily declining, yet nearly 950 million Indians do not have an Internet connection, according to a joint study done by Assocham-Deloitte. "Internet penetration is increasing in India, the access to affordable broadband, smart devic...
Two days ahead of formal launch of protest against demonetisation, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his family have taken to social media to drum up support for the party's campaign against 'notebandi'. The Bihar's number one political family has been using Facebook and Twitter, for the first time, to denounce Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
Spooked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hint of raising taxes on stock market income, the key Indian equity market indices plunged further during afternoon trade on Monday. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading 71.90 points or 0.90 percent down at 7,913.85 points. The Sensex of the BSE, which opene...
