The ripples from November 8 may be seen in next year's state budgets.
There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
The second fortnight of September saw Rs 3 lakh crore of time deposits, something unique, followed by liquidation of Rs 1.2 lakh crpre of these right after.
In the concluding article of a six-part series, Business Standard visits Ludhiana, one of the largest industrial towns in Punjab, to assess the effect of demonetisation.
Some believe the shift to mobile-based transactions will be seamless considering that the urban tele-density is 148%. In rural areas, it is touching 51%. But smartphone penetration in India is a mere 12%. Growth of mobile money has been extremely slow: It is currently 1%.
Much depends on how the liquidity situation evolves over the coming months, with greater clarity expected from the next monetary policy meeting scheduled for December 7.
Lens on rural transactions. Only 38% of branches of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) are in rural areas
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
Even as there is a strong anti-incumbency mood in Punjab, the multi-cornered contest has made the 2017 assembly polls prediction more difficult.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
Most villagers decided to stay back to harvest crops, their only source of livelihood.
Reducing it to 1.3% would lead to savings of Rs 70,000 crore over 5 years
We have brought about a slew of reforms that would help improve governance and also facilitate industrial growth, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tells Sahil Makkar.
Officials say many politicians and retired bureaucrats make every effort to stay in these government bungalows.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
Nagla Fatela, the village Prime Minister said had finally got electricity, is still without power, as are 1,282 other habitats in this UP district. Now, officials are scurrying to realise Modi's claim.
Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
Unplanned, last-minute pricing is hurting the aviation sector, as is evident from the balance sheets of Indian carriers
Taxes on health, excluding medicines, could rise from 8.8 per cent currently, to around 13.6 per cent - an increase of 4.8 per cent.
Moody's expects tax to be lower than the multitude of taxes such as sales tax, excise duties, local taxes, and value-added taxes the automobile sector currently pays
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