An elderly man died while waiting in a queue to change withdrawn currency notes at a bank here on Tuesday. Lakshminarayana, 75, collapsed and died while waiting in a long queue for over two hours at Andhra Bank branch in Marredpally in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. He was rushed to a hospital, where […]
Teenage paralympic swimmer Kumari Revathi Nayka and chess player Dev Shah were among the recipients of the National Child Awards, which President Pranab Mukherjee conferred on Monday at Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Children’s Day. The awards were given to 31 children, three individuals and five institutions in the categories of ‘National Child Award for Exceptional […]
RJD leader Lalu Prasad on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the demonetisation and wondered when he would deliver his election promise of giving every Indian Rs 15 lakh from the black money seized from foreign banks. Referring to Modi’s appeal to people to bear with the currency crisis for another 50 days, Lalu […]
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 […]