The MCA officials claim that out of 33 lakh directors, only 12 lakh had completed the KYC process for free, by the last date of 15 September.

He said PM Modi promised Rs 15 lakh for every indian, he also promised two crore jobs every year, and now he is asking people to fry 'pakodas'.

The new device is placed in Xiaomi's best-selling smartphone series in India and comes with the same value for money proposition as its predecessors.

The government is determined to keep fiscal deficit at 3.3 per cent of GDP on the back of buoyant tax revenues and expectations of surpassing the disinvestment target.

Cash worth Rs 42,200 crore was deposited in 3.74 crore Jan Dhan accounts between November 8, 2016 - when Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his surprise note ban announcement - and December 30, 2016.

A designated PMLA authority has held that 41 properties worth about Rs 1,210 crore, attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the name of absconding diamond jeweller Mehul Choksi and his associated firms, are money laundering assets and ordered that their attachment should continue.

The problem is that two big objectives that the Prime Minister had touted in his late evening speech - about catching black money and weeding out fake notes - have been less than successful to say the least.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has teared into the government describing demonetisation as the country's biggest scam. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey discusses how the government finds itself on the back foot on the issues of noteban and Rafale deal.

The RBI said its balance sheet size increased by 9.49 per cent for the year ended June 30, 2018, which helped shape the monetary and financial conditions during the year.

The central bank is believed to be squeezing the supply of the Rs 2,000 note to prevent black money hoarders from hoarding the higher-value currency. Large value currency notes are easier to hoard, and can be used for the proliferation of black money.

The report says there has been a \"noticeable increase\" in counterfeit notes detected in the denomination of new Rs 500 (up by 4,178 per cent) and Rs 2,000 (by 2,710 per cent) notes.

Chidambaram says every rupee of the Rs 15.42 lakh crore, barring a small sum of Rs 13,000 crore, has come back to the RBI.

The Reserve Bank of India has said that Rs 15.31 lakh crore out of the total Rs 15.41 lakh crore of demonetised currency notes have returned to the banking system.

BJP MPs of a parliamentary panel, of which former prime minister Manmohan Singh is also a member, have stalled the adoption of its contentious draft report on demonetisation that is critical of the Modi government's note-ban decision.

In June, the government had decided to increase the threshold monetary limits for filing appeals with the objective to reduce the number of pending tax litigations at different levels.

In an interview in Germany, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has explained why he decided to hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament during his speech. The Congress President also talked about how the Prime Minister was taken aback after he walked up to hug him. Watch BusinessToday.In video.

When Ratan Tata picked up Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford, he was on an acquisition spree.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched on many issues in his fifth Independence Day speech like his anti-black money initiatives, GST, the upcoming PRAJAA scheme. In an hour-long speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted his government's achievements in the past four years. Watch BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey shed light on the issues discussed as well as sidelined by the Prime Minister in his hour-long speech.

Prime Minister Modi said that the country has made rapid changes in the past few years compared to 2013 when the Congress-led UPA government was in power. The Prime Minister said that the country was on a new path of progress.

PM Modi argued that when investment in infrastructure projects like, making roads, laying down rail lines, setting up power generation is at all-time high, how come the jobs will not be created.