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BJP in India does not fight elections based on any development agendas like education/healthcare or social security. They pretends to the majority Hindu public that "Hindus are in danger from Muslims" and only BJP can protect
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Unfortunately BJP has compromised most of the pillars of democracy. Almost all the mainstream "journalist" openly support the BJP Government. You will find them insulting and fighting with opposition leaders in TV debates everyday
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Also, twitter shows the comments from "verified" handles on the top of other comments. Government sponsored trolls have unlimited flow of money to buy verified status and dominate the general public accounts. This is how BJP gover
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India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces
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Delhi Police arrested the protesting Indian women wrestlers. Various social media handles of IT cell of ruling party shared morphed picture of protesters to show that they were smiling in the police van. https://twitter.com/
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Indian wrestlers Protesting against sexual harassment of colleagues charged by police with rioting while the politician accused of sexual harassment joined India's parliament inauguration as a guest. https://www.aljazeera.co
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India Court issues summons to Delhi CM for asking info on PM Modi Degree
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1. There is a controversy that Indian PM Modi's education degree is fake. [1] 2. Delhi Chief Minister used RTI (Right To Information Act) to request for information about education degree of PM Modi 3. The Chief Information Commissione
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Following is the text from the link that you shared. They took the decision to raise the limit to Rs 7 lakh per financial year after public concern. This limit was definitely not there before. >> To avoid any procedural ambiguity, it
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Is it possible that may be you are not able to understand the issue at hand?
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Sorry, not sure what issue are you trying to raise here. Are you against government banning the note, or are you against FT reporting on this?
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"Guess now it's again time to line up in banks." Thats what I mentioned in the top comment to which are you are replying.
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IMHO, you mentioned "There is no rational reason to queue up at banks now." So I replied to you by sharing news articles about people facing challenges on the ground level. Then you mentioned "People and ground level probably
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Yup, move everyone to digital payment system and then add charges on that too. https://www.outlookindia.com/business/should-you-worry-about...
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The problem is that this "nonsense" is not a coincident. All of it is carefully planned, executed and fed to the public to divert their attention from core issues. You can see how all the "journalists" of different India
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It's a story because it impact every Indian (or even non-Indian) who has a 2000 rupee note in his pocket.
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How does it matter if they stopped releasing these notes a year ago? Do the notes that they released earlier disappear from pockets of public? On March 31, 2023 the total value of these banknotes in circulation was Rs 3.62 lakh crore consti
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1. This was in response to "This seems like a push for digital payments." 2. Yes, they did raise the limit to 7 lakhs in a year after public backlash. Initially the 7 lakhs was not there.
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During the 2016 demonitization, so called 'Journalists' in mainstream channels shared news that new notes have a nano-GPS chip and satellite can detect black money even if it's several hundred feet under the ground. The BJP
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Absolutely. Every political party has cash that they use in election. So by doing the demonetisation, ruling party can virtually disable their opponent parties while their own party members enjoy the insider knowledge and makes tons of mone
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Earlier this month, Indian Government also imposed 20% tax on international purchased made through credit cards by Indians. They can apply for tax claim when they submit their income tax return but that is after the end of financial year. [
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Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but you are right. Governments can ban the paper currency and lock you out from your digital currency at any time. All the mainstream media channels gets loads of advertisement money from government a
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Oh, but are you saying they didn't take care of all the fake notes and corruption by banning 80% of the currency in 2016? And do the people have fake notes of the currency that was launched in 2016? Whats the plan going forward? Denomi
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Thats not how most of the people feel at the ground level. Pharmacies/medical-stores, vegetable shops, petrol stations are already refusing to accept the notes. [1] [2] [3] >> When asked for the reason, a chemist said, "Who
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In 2016, Indian government banned all notes of Rs500 & Rs1000 denomination with immediate effect and launched a new note of Rs2000 denomination. Then they found out that because the new note was larger than earlier notes, and ATMs were
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India Govt passes ordinance to nullify court decision favouring Delhi state govt
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The Aam Aadmi Party (transl. Common Man's Party; abbr. AAP) is a political party in India. It was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement. AAP won the election in 2013 and since th
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Are you trying to imply that there was no legal action taken against The Wire? Didn't BJP got The Wire office raided by police after that news report? [1] BTW, mention of "The Wire" does not answer parent's question. &qu
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Wow, great example. /s So is Book that you linked written by the same Rahul Roushan who is the CEO of OpIndia, a right-wing news portal that has been found publishing fake & Islamophobic news on multiple occasions?[1] The other edi
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Ok, let's do some logical analysis here. This is the example of harshest punishment by BJP for a hate speech: /s "Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will never forgive BJP's Sadhvi Pragya for insulting Mahatma Gandhi b
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