Page 5 - Auction

Using spectrum for the common good

Service delivery is lost in pursuing auctions

Banksy artwork 'Show Me the Monet' sells for almost $10 million at auction

In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet's image of water lilies in his garden at Giverny

Best of BS Opinion: Open-ended tariff protection, low interest rates & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Auction of public resources and profit

Any sale must be designed to serve the common good, not to maximise revenues

Auctions at Asia's largest onion market halted after income tax raids

Trading will not be conducted on Friday as well because it is ''Amavasya'' or no moon day, which is considered inauspicious

Telecom spectrum auction: How this year's Nobel-winning idea failed India

The bridge that Milgrom and Wilson built was the 1994 auction of telecommunications spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission

Economics Nobel shows that economists are starting to think like engineers

Most economic theories are basically mathematical parables. Although they're written in equations, the variables in those equations only loosely correspond to real-world things that we can measure

Award for auctions

This year's Nobel is for actual economic policy design

Rare art collection by Indian masters worth millions to go under the hammer

The Hansen collection, being auctioned by Sotheby's, includes Gaitonde, Ram Kumar and Krishen Khanna

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi sell for record 260K pounds in UK

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi have broken all records for a UK auction house after a US-based collector acquired them with a bid of 260,000 pounds

E-auction for commercial coal mines likely in October, results in November

The due date for submitting a technical bid is September 29 and e-auction would be conducted during October-November

Mahatma Gandhi's anti-untouchability campaign letter to be auctioned

The one-page handwritten letter is signed "M. K. Gandhi," and dated October 9, 1932

Original Olympic Games manifesto sells for record $8.8 mn at auction

The 14-page manuscript was written in 1892 by Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat and athletics enthusiast known as the "father" of the modern Olympics

Iron ore stockpile at mine heads could hurt production post auctions

Inventory at pit-heads of mines lapsing by next March end largely has lower grade fines with Fe content of up to 62%, which has no takers in domestic market

The skills and thrills of conducting an auction: Top auctioneers' account

The theatrics and mechanics of live auctions appear endangered by an increasing number of sales online

Brief case: Conditions to challenge auction sale

A weekly selection of key court orders

Banks to again auction Kingfisher House, Villa at lower prices this week

The Kingfisher Villa at Condolim in north Goa is priced at Rs 81 crore, which is 5 per cent lower than the auction held in October

Time for states to move beyond vanilla model of auction

After the 2015 auctions for coal mines in India, there were allegations of bidding through cartels

Govt may auction 27.4 million carats of abandoned diamonds

The Bunder deposit, about 500 km (300 miles) southeast of New Delhi was discovered by Rio Tinto in 2004

NSE to auction investment limits for Rs 7,264-cr govt bonds

Total investment in govt debt has reached Rs 136,736 cr till Thursday, which was 94.96% of total permitted limit of Rs 1.44 lakh cr