New Delhi/Mumbai — Indian banks called in thousands of police on Thursday to manage huge queues outside branches, as people tried to exchange bank notes abruptly pulled out of circulation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a crackdown on "black money". Modi announced the shock move on Tuesday night to ditch 500 and 1,000 rupee notes — worth a combined $256bbn — that he said were fuelling corruption, being forged and even paying for attacks by Islamist militants against India. Lines formed before banks reopened after being shut on Wednesday to prepare for the change, as people tried to swap the worthless cash for smaller bills or new 2,000 rupee notes being rushed into circulation and made to be harder to counterfeit. Some people, frustrated by the long wait, got into arguments at Canara Bank near the parliament building in New Delhi, as people barged into queues that wound through the branch and on to the street outside. "Why is there no one here to manage anything?" shouted one man...
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