Dec 8 (Reuters) - Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced a shock move on Nov. 8 to ditch 500 and 1,000 rupee notes - worth a combined $256 billion - that he said were fuelling corruption, being ...

Dec 22 (Reuters) - Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced a shock move on Nov. 8 to ditch 500 and 1,000 rupee notes - worth a combined $256 billion - that he said were fuelling corruption, ...

ON NOVEMBER 8th 2016, Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, stunned its 1.3bn people by announcing that most banknotes would soon become worthless. Indians then queued for weeks on end to exchange or ...

A NEW strain of trickle-down economics has been spawned by the decision, on November 8th, to withdraw the bulk of India’s banknotes by the end of this year. As holders of now-useless 500-and ...

(NEW DELHI) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes would be withdrawn from circulation at midnight, saying it was part of a crackdown on rampant ...

Well, that didn't take long, did it? We're only four months into demonetisation and good quality, but not perfect, fake Rs 2,000 banknotes are being reported in India. That they are reported to ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put out a tender for a mobile app to enable visually impaired persons identify all denominations of Indian banknotes. According to RBI, the intaglio printing-based ...

Each Indian banknote is more than just currency—it carries a piece of the country’s rich history. This World Heritage Day, we explore the iconic heritage sites featured on Indian rupee notes, their ...

To get a glimpse of India’s bewildering diversity, all it takes is a look at any Indian rupee banknote. While one side will carry English and Hindi words, the margin of the other will have a phrase ...