₹500, ₹1,000 notes no longer valid from midnight: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that currency notes of the ₹500, ₹1,000 denominations will not be valid from midnight on November 8, 2016. Citizens will have 50 days, till December 30, to surrender the notes at banks and post offices, he added. He further said government hospitals will accept the ₹500, ₹1,000 notes till November 11.