Dec 8 (Reuters) - Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced a shock move on Nov. 8 to ditch 500 and 1,000 rupee notes - worth a combined $256 billion - that he said were fuelling corruption, being ...

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India's shock move on Tuesday to withdraw large denomination bank notes from circulation to fight corruption and tax evasion has left some overseas citizens high and ...

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You may have heard of the demonetization of bank notes in India. That means the country has officially withdrawn recognition of the validity of certain currency denominations. The move was undertaken ...

India is withdrawing its highest value currency notes of Rs 2,000 (£19.4) from public circulation, the country’s central Reserve Bank of India announced on Friday but added that the denomination will ...

Nepal lifts decade-long ban on high-value Indian notes Individuals can now hold Rs. 200 and Rs. 500 notes up to Rs. 25,000 ...

Nepal has lifted a decade-long ban on high-denomination Indian currency, allowing individuals to carry Rs 200 and Rs 500 ...

ON NOVEMBER 8th 2016, Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, stunned its 1.3bn people by announcing that most banknotes would soon become worthless. Indians then queued for weeks on end to exchange or ...

(NEW DELHI) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes would be withdrawn from circulation at midnight, saying it was part of a crackdown on rampant ...

Well, that didn't take long, did it? We're only four months into demonetisation and good quality, but not perfect, fake Rs 2,000 banknotes are being reported in India. That they are reported to ...

India plans to eliminate the current versions of its two largest banknotes in a bid to undermine pervasive corruption. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that current 500- and 1,000-rupee ...