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Govt to sell up to 4.92% stake in utility company SJVN from Thursday

The sale of the federal government's 4.92% in the state-run hydro power generation firm could earn it about 13.34 billion rupees ($160.81 million)

Govt to sell up to 4.92% stake in utility company SJVN from Thursday
Updated On : 20 Sep 2023 | 10:20 PM IST

Equity over efficiency: An Indian preference

Private commercial interest, Indians tend to believe, often trumps social interest

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Updated On : 03 Mar 2017 | 10:56 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Be Indian, think Indian

Our borrowed economics has failed because it is not rooted in India

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Updated On : 05 Feb 2017 | 1:20 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: The wrong Lego set

One imported economist is NITI Aayog head, another CEA, and a third will soon be RBI deputy governor

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Updated On : 07 Jan 2017 | 4:07 AM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: What about some sagacity, Mr Modi?

Post demonetisation there is no or less cash, which means less buying. Less buying means less selling. Less selling means less producing. Less producing means more sacking

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Updated On : 09 Dec 2016 | 11:20 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: How about some dissent in economics?

This year theme of 'Ideas Conclave' was 'Democracy, Development and Dissent'

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Updated On : 11 Nov 2016 | 10:44 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Garbage in, garbage out

Politicians are not the only ones who make unreasonable demands about proof. Social scientists, especially economists, also do the same thing

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Updated On : 15 Oct 2016 | 12:03 AM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Governor Patel: Float like a butterfly, sting like one

The first time an economist was made governor was in May 1977

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Updated On : 02 Sep 2016 | 9:57 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: When will the geese start hissing?

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing."

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Updated On : 05 Aug 2016 | 9:44 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: A tutorial for Jayant Sinha

Jayant Sinha has been given a great opportunity to implement the newly-announced aviation policies

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: A tutorial for Jayant Sinha
Updated On : 08 Jul 2016 | 11:22 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Eeny Meeny Miney Mo

For the last several weeks a controversy has been generated over whether or not the present governor of the RBI, should be given an extension

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Updated On : 27 Jun 2016 | 5:48 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Blame it on Keynes

Country after democratic country has been a victim of this seductive combination. The ones that are not are more the exception rather than the rule

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Updated On : 13 May 2016 | 10:55 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Modi's faulty job messaging

Most Indians are agreed on one thing: If Narendra Modi wants to be re-elected, he must create more jobs that provide a regular monthly income with benefits

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Updated On : 15 Apr 2016 | 11:13 PM IST

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Be a bowler, son, not a batsman

The only other profession that resembles that of T20 bowlers is the Indian bureaucracy - low performance expectations and very high rewards

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Updated On : 18 Mar 2016 | 10:15 PM IST