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A K Bhattacharya

A K Bhattacharya

A K Bhattacharya

A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.

A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.

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A K Bhattacharya: Dr Singh takes charge

It may not have been just caution that triggered the PMO's clarification on the draft GAAR last Friday

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 2:28 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: A matter of contract

The government should lose no time in enforcing a contract among all stakeholders in PPP-based mega transport projects

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 2:28 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: The 'Vivekananda formula'

The government should create a new, more powerful service to contain the growing dominance of the IAS

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 2:28 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: A tale of two Metros

The Bangalore and Delhi experiences have lessons to offer metro projects in other Indian cities

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 2:28 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Signs of a new order

There appears to be closer interaction among senior officials of the PMO and the finance ministry

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 1:32 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: UPA gets another shot

Will Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the presidential post change the way in which the PM and his office function?

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 1:32 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: A tale of two terms

How will Pranab Mukherjee be remembered as a finance minister? Be it 1982-84 or 2009-12

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 1:32 PM IST
Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Public sector's unsung hero

M S Gujral, who died on May 4, showed that it is possible to overcome political interference and set new standards of efficiency in public sector

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: The rise of the taxman

Tax depts in finance ministry continue to enjoy a new-found power, aided by the support of the finance minister and his office

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

The business of governance

Finance ministers love to quote from Arthashastra in their budget speeches to justify their tax proposals. But this accessible translation of the ancient treatise shows that they haven¿t quite got the complexities of Kautilya¿s message

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: UPA's anniversary issues

A crucial week for UPA-II, as the market waits for a decision on oil prices

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST
Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Moving away from coalitions?

Voters did not take too long to punish governments that failed to perform during five years of their tenure

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:49 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: The importance of being Basu

Has the experiment of appointing non-government economists worked?

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:49 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Behind the positive surprise

A former RBI governor once said the effectiveness of the apex bank's policies often depended on how well it managed to spring positive surprises on the markets

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:49 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Comptroller & Activist General?

The contention that the CAG has become more active than usual is false

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:49 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Time for some pragmatism

The next 10 days will tell you whether the UPA has learnt the right lessons from its poor performance in Assembly polls

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:24 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: A Budget of the eighties?

The finance minister's solutions to the growth-inflation fix may well remind us of the forgotten pre-reform era

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:24 AM IST

A K Bhattacharya: Lost in transmission

In reacting with unprecedented speed to the leaked CAG report, the Prime Minister's Office may have raised many more questions

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:24 AM IST