India's patent office has ignored the strict safeguards against evergreening and allowed a flood of secondary drug patents
Quotable Marx
The Maasai are protecting their intellectual property rights, what of others like India's Warlis?
The sheer folly of Indian GIs
No sharing or you'll be sued
For distributing a subscription trade newsletter among its staff, a US firm is fined heavily for copyright violations
Employed but poor
Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation
Poverty@25, India@70
Poverty remains conditional to one's social status
Agriculture key to creating jobs in India's largely informal economy
The NDA government is repeating the mistake of the Vajpayee regime by relying on the formal sector for job ...
Is climate change taking a backseat in the agenda of global alliances?
It seems at the end alliances are made for trade and business expansion while climate change takes a backseat
How the GST has affected traditional weavers in West Bengal
Orders from wholesalers have dried up, affecting the weavers' income
Glimpses of Ghana: a changing profile?
In spite of declining poverty, residents of Ghana still struggle for subsistence
Half of India's children are poor
It raises a question: will they ever be out of poverty?
The murder of workers' unions
The case of Maruti workers reflects the anti-labour stance of companies, governments and media
Me-too ideas fail to start up India
A majority of the start-ups in India are failing the innovation test because of their copycat mentality
Poor farmers cannot move WTO
As India seeks a lasting solution to the public stockholding issue, it is clear the agenda of rich nations ...
Farmers need maximum government
In 2017, farmers will need more credit support than ever. Will the government come to their rescue?
TPP has been trumped
Donald Trump's first priority is to withdraw the US from the Pacific Rim mega trade pact—and that's good news
Reworking informal businesses
In countries like India, informal business is the existing order of the day
BJP's curious China syndrome
BJP leaders' call to boycott Chinese goods is as phoney as it is to believe that Indian-made products can ...
Surgical strikes for fetching jobs
Like terrorism, jobless growth continues in India irrespective of who is in power. To tackle it, we need not ...
A pact to choke
To join the RCEP, a major regional trade bloc, India is making huge concessions without getting anything significant in ...
When sharing is so hard
Ayush companies claim the laws on biodiversity require only foreign entities to share benefits of commercialisation
Jharkhand’s own Amul model
A model where small producers engage in a large-scale economic activity is important in the development laboratory of India
Need ‘Sin’ tax within GST to prevent more sins
As GST reforms excite market, fiscal correction to curb pollution and energy impacts of new growth must remain the ...
Udta piracy, but rising popularity
Copyright violation through piracy hurts the film industry but it also brings in a wider audience—and fame