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India discontinued the practice of setting targets for sterilisation in 2000 to reduce chances of forced procedures.

The fortnight after the scrapping of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes saw a massive jump in deposits in these accounts, even as significantly fewer than average new accounts were opened.

Demonetisation, along with GST, will bring about a fundamental reordering of business enterprise in India.

Given the space, the big cat will just slip away. But confronting, chasing or surrounding them is a bad idea, as is capturing or relocating them.

RBI has proposed the opening of an ‘Islamic window’ in banks to ‘gradually’ introduce Sharia-compliant banking in India.

A set of 85 surveys carried out by sociologist Nima Lamu Yolmo in 2014 recorded the change in social behaviour that accompanied the introduction of new forms of monetary transactions in New Delhi.

Like Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2001-02, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hoping the threat of war will compel Pakistan to leash the terrorists it has let out of their pens. But both sides seem determined

RBI’s Payments and Settlements System Vision 2018 now aims to ensure that a variety of electronic payments are cost-effective for both users and service providers.

Indian Express trace the route of the Indian currency note — a remarkable press-to-ATM journey that has now been slowed by potholes left by the withdrawal of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes.

All previous radical monetary experiments have followed hyperinflation or protracted currency instability. Not this one.

A beginning was made as a one-year pilot project in Lagos state, and the footprint of the policy was gradually expanded until its nationwide execution on July 31, 2014.

As the move towards reducing cash deals gains ground and volumes of card transactions increase, we lists some basic — but frequently overlooked — steps to protect your digital life.

Ramgopal had broken down before reporters in Etawah on Monday, saying that he believed he was still part of the SP.

The number of countries that signed the ISA agreement in Marrakesh on Tuesday was far less than India’s expectation of at least 50.

The popular Gen Raheel Sharif retires before the end of the month. In choosing his successor, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to look for his ‘own man’. This is his shortlist — and his

On Tuesday, more than 20 countries signed a Framework Agreement on International Solar Alliance which will take the shape of a separate international treaty once it is operationalised.

Some similarities, several dissimilarities between the situations of 1978 and 1998 — and the government’s thinking now.

The collegium system has its genesis in a series of judgments called “Judges Cases”. The collegium came into being through interpretations of pertinent constitutional provisions by the Supreme Court in the Judges Cases.

In September, the Port Department endorsed the financial inspection wing’s findings, and recommended action against Thomas.

The effects of de-monetisation will be the most acute when it spreads from consumption in households to production in factories and by farmers across the country.

Hindutva was a clear political project in the way political Islam was or is.

The state spends just over Rs 50 per prisoner per day on average, data show. There’s no biryani, and any non-veg is hard to come by.

Beijing used to be the world’s pollution capital, and Paris saw an extraordinary spell of smog last year. Here’s what they did.

The creation of Haryana from the old (undivided) Punjab in 1966 threw up the problem of giving Haryana its share of river waters. Punjab was opposed to sharing waters of the Ravi and Beas with

Trump may not carry out threat of tearing up Paris deal, but he may choose not to help with money.