In the preceding fiscal 2017-18, the notes in circulation were Rs 18,03,700 crore; while it stood at Rs 13,10,200 crore at the end of 2016-17

The RBI data on Friday showed the currency with the public grew 15.2 per cent to Rs 21.59 lakh crore as of the fortnight to October 25, as against Rs 17.97 lakh crore on November 4, 2016

In September quarter of financial year 2016-17, public cash was valued at Rs 16.56 lakh crore. The very next quarter, which saw Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes being banned, currency with public nosedived 47 per cent sequentially to 7.85 lakh crore

While Bharatiya Janata Party is looking to retain both Maharashtra and Haryana, Congress is planning to make a comeback in latter

The Bill ignores suggestions of ICMR and a Parliamentary panel to first regulate assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinics and retains restrictive definitions and unwarranted regulatory provisions raising serious doubts about its efficacy to achieve its objective.

The strength of government establishments was 32,38,397 as on March 1, 2017, which increased to 36,19,596 by the same date in 2019 an increase of 3,81,199, the Union Budget 2019 showed

Union Budget 2019: Apart from raising the income tax exemption limit and as well as the deduction thresholds under Section 80C, India's middle-class wants Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to also tinker with tax slabs

Union Budget 2019 Expectations: The  Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, which accounts for around 8 per cent of India's GDP, over 40 per cent of total exports and employs over 117 million people, is seen as the growth engine of the economy

Union Budget 2019: The BJP had promised a new scheme to provide collateral-free credit up to Rs 50 lakh for entrepreneurs

India will face a challenge on the fiscal front following an economic slowdown impacting tax collections amid rising state expenditure on the farm sector, says the Economy Survey 2019

Union Budget 2019: From stepping up public spending in labour-intensive areas to giving a fillip to the MSME sector, experts have a host of suggestions for Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a time the news on the unemployment front is getting progressively worse

The fresh mandate will allow Modi to further relax investment rules, which means India's private sector giants such as Reliance, Tata and Mahindra would be prepared to invest billions of dollars in the defence sector.

NBFC crisis and indiscriminate borrowing to beef up its subsidiaries is at the root of Reliance Capital's crisis.

The past many years had been bad for the sector as demonetisation and GST were big put-downers and this is the first Akshaya Tritiya since 2016 that is showing some visible volume uptick.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: At a rally Ranaghat, PM Modi said that they will identify infiltrators through NRC so that the people of Bengal are not deprived of their rights.

Lok Sabha election: In Maharashtra, voting percentage has remained 46.63 per cent till 3pm; the voting process to end at 6pm.

The funds in the account will meanwhile remain frozen as part of the worldwide freezing order in favour of the Indian banks last year

This is the highest job creation in the IT sector in the last three years since demonetisation; top two firms TCS and Infosys created 53,303 new jobs in 2018-19.