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Topic: Cash

Room at centre of Justice Varma cash row sealed over 10 days after fire, cops & firemen questioned

Videos, photos & other evidence collected Wednesday to be examined by experts.

Justice Varma of Delhi HC, under fire for ‘cash found at home,’ once ruled to curtail ED powers

Justice Yashwant Varma has also delivered other significant judgments, including on service charges on restaurant bills and misreporting on the Delhi excise policy matter.

Cash is dying all over the world, but we aren’t ready to bury it yet

Even in nations where technology has turned it into an anachronistic appendage, cash can’t be allowed to die. Not before central bank digital currencies are ready.

Five years after demonetisation, cash transactions are down but not gone, survey says

According to the LocalCircles survey, over the last year, 20% of respondents reduced their cash transactions in favour of digital payments. 

Indians saved more in Q1, preferred to invest in mutual funds and hold cash, RBI says

RBI says increased flows to mutual funds was driven by low fixed deposit rates in banks while pandemic hastened need for people to buy life insurance policies.

Blame it on RBI – Indian banks have Rs 8 lakh crore sitting idle in their systems

The Rs 8 lakh crore with banks exceeds the level seen after demonetisation in 2016 and is expected to be the new normal for the next few months at least.

ATMs, once the future of banking, starting to become more scarce

Consulting firm RBR said in a study that banking customers are increasingly favouring mobile banking and credit & debit cards over cash.

Funding crisis to worsen unless India pumps in cash, Kotak says

India’s cash deficit is the worst since 2016, largely due to muted government spending & high election-linked expenditure.

You may finally know how much old cash was returned after demonetisation

RBI has told a parliamentary panel that demonetised notes have been verified for authenticity and numerical accuracy.

Liquidity risk looms, funding costs may surge: IDFC fund manager

Indian assets have become less attractive to overseas funds amid tighter global liquidity, says Suyash Choudhary.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.