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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee is an author and Contributing Editor at the Business Standard. He works on public policy, primarily finance, maritime and energy issues. He comments on current economic issues at On Point with Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. He is also a Professor of Practice and Director, Centre for Regulatory Governance at Jindal Global Law School at OP Jindal Global University. He has read Economics at Delhi School of Economics and Shri Ram College of Commerce. He has worked in Govt of India as part of Indian Information Service & has since moved to The Economic Times, Indian Express & Financial Express newspapers.
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee is an author and Contributing Editor at the Business Standard. He works on public policy, primarily finance, maritime and energy issues. He comments on current economic issues at On Point with Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. He is also a Professor of Practice and Director, Centre for Regulatory Governance at Jindal Global Law School at OP Jindal Global University. He has read Economics at Delhi School of Economics and Shri Ram College of Commerce. He has worked in Govt of India as part of Indian Information Service & has since moved to The Economic Times, Indian Express & Financial Express newspapers.
There is discontent over differences in seniority levels between IAS and IRS officers
Anybody who has seen the gigantic volumes and their conflicting definitions would recognise that GST could not have emerged without their reconciliation
Banks Board Bureau cracks the whip on errant promoters; proposal to FinMin suggests asset sales to PSUs within a deadline
Cash-strapped public sector banks may be unnecessarily waiting for deposits to grow to start lending
New government tenders would ask bidders to train youth
The reform can be implemented through one or more executive notifications, says labour secretary
The raconteur
The Enforcement Directorate has managed to sniff out over Rs 9,000 crore as suspected haul from money laundering in a decade, but it has yet to link those against anyone successfully in a court
The shortage of officers at the centre has become so visible that the DoPT in a candid acknowledgment of the shrinking pool asked the states to 'share the shortage'
At 3,249 statisticians, India's data crunchers number a fifth of what China puts on the ground to calculate its GDP
According to Gadkari, the proposed corporation will be in addition to the role of the NHAI, which, too, raises finances for the road sector
A team from the Nuclear Suppliers Group is expected to visit India soon to open a dialogue for a supplier's liability policy
The number of cases being admitted and investigated by the Competition Commission of India has fallen drastically in recent years
Mauritius wanted extension of the benefits limitation clause in India's treaty with Singapore, which we were quite willing to extend, for our price
To replace present bank credit arrangement with RBI advance for same amount, at less cost; should free some of banks' loanables
Two organisations tracking tax violations and money laundering worldwide identify totally different sets of countries for lack of financial transparency. How one reads the Panama Papers controversy de
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's decision to cut arbitrage may ensure that the standards of purity of the refined gold in the Indian market meet the global benchmark
Ten per cent of the Indian population was on social media by the end of 2015, according to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India or IAMAI
Four years ago, the government began an exercise to weed out 'deadwood' among senior bureaucrats