Several political leaders were photographed celebrating raksha bandhan, some of them with students and small children.
"It has been decided to print banknotes based on plastic or polymer substrate. The process of procurement has been initiated," Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply in Lok Sabha to a query whether Reserve Bank of India proposes to print plastic currency notes in place of paper ones.
The number of pending investor grievances against listed companies at the end of March 2016 stood at 974 as against 373 a year ago.
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RBI has posted detailed instruction on its website clearly showing the eligibility conditions and other necessary documents required to be tendered for exchange of old currency notes
'Day by day, the queues will shorten.'
The current limit of Rs 24,000 per week has been raised to Rs 50,000 for savings accounts.
The loans taken have come down and hence the net capital inflow has reduced.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala claimed officials of Skylight Hospitality have visited ED numerous times and supplied them whatever documents required but they have not been able to find anything either against Vadra or his company or associates.
Series of controversies related to Dalit issues have come at a time when the BJP has launched a massive campaign to win back Uttar Pradesh.
The finance ministry and the RBI have performed many somersaults in these last 42 days.
'The disquiet in the Sangh is, of course, over demonetisation.' 'But more than that, it is about the growing centralisation in the running of the government and party,'
Measures may include tax slab and rate revisions for individuals, companies.
The opposition battled it out with the Centre over farmer issues, the suspension of 6 MPs and the privileges of MPs.
Limited IT staff may compel them to focus on big fish than small depositors.
The Income Tax raids on a Karnataka minister on Wednesday had its echo in Parliament where the protesting Congress members disrupted the proceedings
Apart from Smriti, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ananth Kumar took over as law and parliamentary affairs ministers respectively.
Venkaiah Naidu said 'let there be a discussion... November 8 is a historic day'.
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