Permit buyback
Wednesday's late rally on the bourses was fuelled by rumours that the government was about to impose a ban on short sales, and an announcement allowing share buybacks was in the offing.

"Sen is moving from state action to social action"
The Indian economists' fraternity had been expecting the Nobel Prize for Amartya Sen for some time now. I am happy that this has finally happened. Sen is as much an asset to the Nobel as the prize is to him.

Above economics
India will be justly proud of the Nobel prize for economics to Amartya Kumar Sen. This country has spawned a galaxy of economists from CN Vakil to Sukhamoy Chakravarty, but Sen is a class apart.

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