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Behind Notes Ban, Team Of 6 Worked Secretly At PM Narendra Modi’s Home: Report PM Narendra Modi had handpicked a trusted bureaucrat and a small team to strategise demonetisation NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS PM Modi handpicked trusted bureaucrat Hasmukh Adhia to spearhead move Mr Adhia, five others privy to the plan were sworn to utmost secrecy A young team of researchers worked in 2 rooms at PM Modi’s residence Prime Minister Narendra Modi handpicked a trusted bureaucrat, little known outside India’s financial circles, to spearhead a radical move to abolish 86 percent of the country’s cash overnight and take aim at...

The income tax employees associations said in a joint memorandum that they are feeling “demotivated due to shortage of manpower in lower cadres and huge stagnation in officers cadre right at this moment”. Press Trust of India | Last Updated: December 09, 2016 16:34 (IST) New Delhi: With the I-T department facing a huge volume of black money cases post-demonetisation, two associations of its employees have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking adequate manpower and infrastructure facilities to probe instances of tax evasion running into “several crores” of rupees. The two associations — Income Tax Employees Federation (ITEF) and...

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma,[needs IPA] GCB[5](born 12 April 1942) is the President of South Africa,[6] elected by parliament following his party’s victory in the 2009 general election. He was re-elected in the 2014 election.[7] Zuma is the President of the African National Congress (ANC), the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005.[8] Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ[9] and his clan name Msholozi.[10][11]Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. He was re-elected as ANC leader at...

By Emmanuel Mwamba, Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa President Edgar Chagwa Lungu kicked of the day-Friday 9th December 2016  with a ceremony full of honours: a 21 Gun-salute. We later moved into official talks where issues of mutual interests and concerns were discussed, talks hosted at State House. Issues regarding trade imbalance, and specific sectoral issues in agriculture, tourism, mining, manufacturing and industrialisation where discussed. Of interest is the project: “Liberation & Heritage Route Project” to memorialise the struggle tracing the route of the struggle. President Lungu informed President Zuma that his government had gazzeted the house in which...