News digest: One year of demonetisation, rising crude oil prices, and more

Demonetisation was a monumental blunder: Former pm Manmohan Singh

Demonetisation face-off: black day versus anti-black money day

Monumental blunder, says Manmohan 

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday came down hard on the Narendra Modi government’s key policy measures over the past one year, saying while demonetisation was a “monumental blunder”, it was followed up by a “badly designed and hastily implemented GST”.
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Watershed moment in history: Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday called demonetisation a “watershed moment in the history of Indian economy”. He quoted data extensively to make a case for the announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on November