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Kerala Finance Minister Dr TM Thomas Isaac has said the situation in the real economy is worsening by the day as all sectors including agriculture, plantation and small businesses are affected by the Centre's demonetisation drive.

As the rest of the country remains in a turmoil due to the demonetisation of the 500 and 1,000 rupees currency notes, people in Kashmir have accepted the move without any panic.

On 8th November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. Within hours of that announcement, diplomatic missions in Delhi started sending detailed advisories to their citizens about currency restrictions in India and...

Most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar as well as in other district headquarters of the Valley due to the strike called by the separatists.

A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D Y Chandrachud on Tuesday told lawyer Rakesh Dahiya, who sought urgent listing of a criminal contempt petition, that the plea would come up in due course.

A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, rocked the northeastern states on Tuesday

The PILs were filed in the apex court questioning the government's rational and modus operandi behind the implementation of the drive as it reportedly caused inconvenience to the general public.

Starting from real estate business to weddings the Narendra Modi-led NDA government's demonetisation drive has cast its shadow on almost everything in the country.

A woman waiting in line at an ATM in Mayur Vihar Phase 3 in New Delhi took off her shirt to protest against the shortage triggered by the ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes , leaving bystanders stunned.

Days after a controversial departure from Pakistan, it emerged that National Geographic's famous "Afghan Girl" Sharbat Gula will be travelling to India for medical treatment.

Former Union Finance Minister P Chadambaram on Saturday criticised the Narendra Modi government's decision to demonitise Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes, saying the the move pushed the common man into misery and despair.

The prime minister had, on November 8, announced his government's decision to demonetise Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes.

CPI State Secretary Kanam Rajendran claimed on Saturday that an estimated Rs 30,000 crores of black money had been deposited in the cooperative banks in Kerala and "not a single paise" was paid as income tax on them.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued contempt notice to former SC judge Markandey Katju for one of his Facebook posts amid dramatic scenes in the courtroom on Friday.

The Income Tax department on Thursday conducted multiple raids in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities in the wake of reports of alleged profiteering and subsequent tax evasion by traders by converting withdrawn currency notes in an illegal manner.

Ever since the government announced the massive cash clean-up, there has been a question as to why they decided to do away with Rs 1,000 notes. Sources close to the government said while the decision on demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes was being tak...