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A K Bhattacharya: The trouble with disinvestment

What should have primarily served as an instrument for improving PSU management has over the years become a mere financial exercise to raise revenue to reduce the fiscal deficit

Debashis Basu: One inch at a time

If the RBI really wants banks to treat customers fairly, it should do a lot of groundwork in collaboration with customers and consumer organisations

Subir Gokarn: 1991 and 2014

The key similarity between 1991 and 2014 is the criticality of decisive action

A firm bottom

Indian economy unlikely to get any worse

Who put Sibal's signature in Tehelka's share application?

The law minister says he donated money, shares were issued, but he hadn't apply for them

Kenneth Rogoff: The problem with wealth taxes

Advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far. Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates

Kishore Singh: 'Exit' polls: It's a family affair

Class wars

This rage, fury, anger and resentment has reached such a level that no one in the middle class can escape its torrent

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Poll reform: An economics solution

Why not have two MPs per constituency?

T N Ninan: Is Delhi's power too costly?

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Repeating an error

Centre leaves all its disinvestment to the last minute

Praveen Chakravarty: Independent candidates: Party-poopers in disguise?

In our electoral system of first-past-the-post, the probability that an independent will influence the eventual outcome of an election is statistically high

A more mature federation

Centre-state relations are stuck in a time warp

Barun Roy: The next speed revolution

Japan will start building the world's first long-distance magnetic levitation railway that can hit a top speed of over 500 km an hour

Trading tools for a choppy market

If a stock predictably moves to the top of a defined range, hits resistance and drops back down to the bottom of the range where it hits support, it can be traded

Soumya Kanti Ghosh: Is India ready to enter global bond indices?

Macro-fundamentals suggest not, nor does the level of retail participation in the debt market

Varad Pande: Some convenient truths for 'green growth'

Three ways to achieve this agenda that get around the heated debate over who is responsible for climate change and who must pay for it

A K Bhattacharya: Dealing with government

Reforms may have removed many controls on industry, but the need to deal with the government or its civil servants has not declined

Warsaw fails to deliver

Although developing countries compromise on climate change