Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched another attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the currency spike, saying it had caused misery to the common man. Challenging Modi’s claim that the poor were now having a peaceful sleep and only the rich were “taking sleeping pills”, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader told […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday justified demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency and said as a result of the move, the poor were sleeping in ease and those who have stashed ill-gotten money are running from pillar to post, buying sleeping pills. Addressing an impressive gathering at Ghazipur, the Prime Minister said […]
Long serpentine queues were seem in front of banks and ATMs on the fourth consecutive day on Sunday as thousands of anxious people waited to deposit or exchange their spiked currency or take out cash. People formed queues in front of banks much before their scheduled time to open, to exchange ctheir Rs 500 and […]
Rumours of no salt stocks in Uttar Pradesh triggered a major law and order situation, leading to the death of a woman in Kanpur, police said on Saturday. In the panic buying around midnight, when the rumours spread like wildfire in Bakarganj Bazaar in Kanpur, Savita (52) too, rushed to buy some salt. In the […]
Acknowledging the hardship being faced by people back home following the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said more steps could be taken to curb black money as warranted. Addressing the Indian diaspora here, Modi said he had already opened several windows for people to come clean […]
Tens of thousands of anxious people massed outside banks and ATMs here on Saturday for a third day to deposit or exchange their spiked currency or take out cash. Serpentine queues started forming outside all banks much before they opened, armed with their old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. There was anxiety and a sullen […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday demanded rollback of the government’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, saying that the economy will collapse in the coming days if the decision was not withdrawn. Kejriwal said that demonetisation will not bring black money into the banking system but will only result […]
China is committing religious oppression by ordering the destruction of the Larung Gar monastary in Tibet, Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay said. “The Chinese government should also respect rights of the Tibetan people. Their basic rights should be restored. At the moment the internationally famous Larung Gar monastery is being destroyed,” Sangay said while addressing […]
Terrorism is an enemy of democracy and development and it cannot exist without supporters, Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammad Abdali said. Speaking late Friday at the ‘India Ideas Conclave’ in south Goa’s Canacona village, Abdali said that terrorism was being used as a tool against the people of India and Afghanistan “to achieve political […]
Negative global cues subdued the Indian equity markets during the early morning trade session on Friday. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was flat — marginally down by 0.20 points to 8,615.05 points. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE, which opened at 27,983.14 points, traded at 27,872.67 points […]