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Thursday, October 3, 2024
TopicCounterfeit currency

Topic: counterfeit currency

Demonetisation failure? Rs 500 & Rs 2,000 notes together make up 50% of counterfeit notes detected

Ministry of Finance informed Parliament govt implemented demonetisation to reduce incidence of fake notes. But counterfeiting of high value currency has risen sharply, fresh data shows.

Fake banknotes seized in India doubled after demonetisation, Gujarat topped list: NCRB

National Crime Records Bureau’s report for 2017 says new Rs 2,000 note, released after demonetisation, accounted for more than half the seized currency.

Central Information Commission wants data on Rs 2,000 & Rs 500 notes printed disclosed

The RBI subsidiary that prints currency notes had earlier claimed that the information cannot be shared with people because of several reasons.

RBI data reveals demonetisation was the epitome of whimsical, illogical policymaking

The government wanted demonetisation to combat three problems. None of them seem to have been solved. 

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Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?