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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.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.