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Note ban anniversary: Sitharaman asks if Oppn is in favour of black money

Sitharaman said that about 20 per cent more confiscation of black money happened after demonetisation

Terror funding with fake notes reduced due to demonetisation: Jaitley

The Narendra Modi govt banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on this day a year back

RBI's liquidity clean-up to push up bond yields

The apex bank has become more aggressive in absorbing liquidity since note ban, has sold Rs 90,000 cr bonds to remove excess liquidity

A year of note ban: Despite widening losses, small retailers still back BJP

All shopkeepers involved in the exercise said fewer customers wanted to pay through cashless modes, so fewer shopkeepers have invested in non-cash payment infrastructure such as card swipe machines

Scars and wounds caused by demonetisation more visible with time: Manmohan

The former Finance Minister also asked the current NDA regime not to indulge in any further unorthodox, short-term economic measures

DeMo led to formalisation of economy, expanded tax base, says Arun Jaitley

Jaitley said in first four years of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, the number of income tax returns filers has gone up to 6.86 crore from 3.8 crore in May 2014

Demonetisation foolish, GST derailed economy, says Chidambaram

Centre should have admitted that made mistake to scrap high value currency notes: Chidambaram

Demand-supply shock debate divides economists

Was demonetisation a demand-side shock to the system?

Rajan's note advising against note ban should be made public: Montek Singh

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, talks about note ban, GST, jobs, the bullet train and more

New shoes bite initially: Pradhan on GST, demonetisation

Unnecessarily an atmosphere is being created that demonetisation, GST had curtailed job opportunities: Dharmendra Pradhan

66 machines being used for counting demonetised notes: RBI

A global tender has been floated for the procurement of new Currency Verification and Processing machines

Demonetised Diwali for wholesale traders

Diwali sales at a five-year low

GST, demonetisation having desired impact: Jaitley

Before demonetisation, Indian norm was to live with a high cash economy, not paying taxes: Jaitley

Year after demonetisation: Cash remains king in Goa ahead of tourist season

If sales do not pick up, many may have to cut down on staff, as many restaurants did last year

Demonetisation killed people in ATM queues, put India in doldrums: Manmohan

Manmohan Singh said he believed that demonetisation was not an appropriate response to the black money menace

Now, PM shares a film on note ban

The Centre called it anti-black money day and the Opposition termed it black day

Govt, Opposition see it in black and white

Rahul Gandhi interacted with traders in Surat, took part in a candlelight vigil and also took to social media to criticise demonetisation

Documents show Naxal activities didn't suffer following demonetisation

Jantana sarkar, a small Maoist group working in Naxal prone Abujhmadh, has successfully converted the old notes of Rs 2 lakh after demonetisation

As note ban impact fades, NBFC-MFI portfolio improves

The sector witnessed a 24 per cent growth in gross loan portfolio to Rs 38,288 crore, year-on-year

SFIO to probe 18 firms over suspicious transactions after demonetisation

Cash deposits over Rs 17,000 cr were made and later withdrawn post demonetisation by as many as 35,000 firms that were later deregistered