India discontinued its biggest denomination currency notes overnight in what is being seen as its biggest attempt to curb black money flow, corruption, counterfeiting and terrorism financing. SEE ALSO ...

Bundles of high-value notes were going for cheap yesterday as black money came out of hiding The move will force developers to get more reasonable with the extortionate prices of real property — an ...

In subject matter if not quite in form, Shrihari Sathe’s 1000 Rupee Note evokes classic neorealist dramas. A tale about what befalls a poor, elderly woman in a small Indian village after she suddenly ...

The world's fastest growing economy has woken up to a countrywide bank shutdown. Banks and ATMs all over India were closed on Wednesday, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock decision a day ...

Millions of Indians crowded into banks on Saturday to exchange monetary notes that were banned this week by the country’s prime minster. Prime Minister Narendra Modi suddenly announced on Tuesday that ...

Footage showing a couple of boys waving bundles of demonetised Indian currency notes circulated online in posts that falsely ...

A 1000 Rupee note in rural India is a bill that’s too large to break when it falls into the hands of the poor. That's just what happens to Budhi, a widow who lives alone in a small village in the ...

On May 19, the Reserve Bank of India announced that it was pulling out of circulation the country’s highest denomination currency, the 2,000 rupee note (worth $24.27 at today’s exchange rate). Unlike ...