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He also said that proper preparations were not made by the government before announcing the currency ban decision.

The directive comes against the backdrop of reports that some are using other persons' bank accounts to convert their black money into new denomination notes.

An estimated 100 million of these have no choice but to defecate in the open

In a bid to ease cash crunch, the government on Thursday allowed dispensing cash of up to Rs 2,000 through debit card swipe at select petrol pumps.

Pakistani troops resorted to firing along the Line of Control (LOC) in the Pallanwala sector of the Jammu district, on Thursday evening prompting the army to give a "befitting response".

Abhay is an advanced active-cum-passive integrated sonar system designed and developed for the smaller platforms such as shallow water crafts and coastal surveillance/patrol vessels.

The Uttar Pradesh and Bihar share extensive border with Nepal and this is one route where counterfeit currency finds its way into India.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday cautioned that a scenario opposite to job creation can spell disaster in the country.

Srinagar on Thursday recorded the coldest night of the season as the temperature dropped to minus 2.7 degrees Celsius while Bannihal town was the coldest in the Jammu region at 2.5 degrees.

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed CBSE to consider and pass orders within three months on a representation, seeking a direction to it to remove alleged objectionable content in class IX social science textbook about the Nadar community.

Sushma Swaraj's tweet that she had a kidney failure and that she is undergoing tests for a kidney transplant is a rare, laudable disclosure in a country where the health status of ailing politicians is often shrouded in mystery and speculation.

Earlier, they were required to report to the I-T Department only when cash deposits in an account exceeded Rs 10 lakh in one full year.

A special court on Wednesday granted one more month's time to CBI to file the probe report in a coal scam case involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and others.

BJD parliamentary party spokesperson Kalikesh Narayan Singhdeo said the party had already welcomed the Centre's move of withdrawing higher denomination currency notes as it would check terror funding and black money in the country.

The arrested men had scanned the new notes to obtain their colour prints, police official Gurdeep Singh said.

The petition is filed against Union Finance Ministry, RBI, Regional Office of RBI and the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Thiruvanathapuram.