PR Economy Desk (02/02/2017): The Union Budget 2017-18 presented by Arun Jaitley on 1st February 2017 was special due to three reasons: It became the first budget since the foundation of the Indian republic when the railway and general budgets were clubbed together into one The Union Budget 2017-18 is a slightly controlled budget because the … Read more
The Modi government’s decision to push through the demonetisation exercise was blamed on a nefarious nexus between the Finance Ministry and the US government, keen to push a cashless economic experiment in a ‘region’ to see the feasibility of reducing cash transactions in the economies of Asia-Africa-South America and provide the American big finance capital … Read more
In a discussion with NDTV during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Power Minister Pijush Goyal reiterated that the entire cabinet remained in dark regarding the demonetisation drive of the Modi government and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, kept the entire exercise secret and caught them in surprise by this decision. This is the official version … Read more
Narendra Modi’s war against black money just got better in November, when he arbitrarily declared the withdrawal of the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 from circulation and announced the replacement of both with new notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2000. The declaration made by Modi on 8 November, created a ruckus … Read more
(This article was first published in September 2015 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The great Indian loot is here. According to a report published by the Indian Express, it was … Read more