Taking labour out of the picture

Modi's focus on clearing impediments for industry leaves the worker out in the cold

In the name of the farmer

Rajasthan bans GM trials

Bureaucrats sit on file, while GM mustard sails through

Farmers feel left out

The budget is more concerned about the consumer than the grower

Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets

The US Supreme Court’s verdict in the Myriad case keeps everyone happy

The great biodiversity vanishing trick

Kingfisher and Cronies

A Query For Kaushik Basu

Jugaad of Indian innovation

Patting ourselves for our ability to arrive at makeshift solutions will not take us far

Books in cyberspace

Online Library>> Education • Brazil

Where is the sceptical indian scientist?

Rajasthan seed initiative wilts

MoUs with biotech seed companies in limbo as protests force a rethink

Elusive hunt for skills and jobs

Budget outlays will not do much for job creation or readying youth for skilled work

Indications of a geographic muddle

Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?

Drained royally by MNCs

Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents

Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock

The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US

ICAR’s shoddy science

Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical

The desperation of farmers

Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos

From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents

How to save $25 billion and more on drug costs

Patent settlements bring cheaper generics to market early and cut healthcare spending

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

Strong medicine for weak drug patents

Revocation of Pfizer, Roche patents for lacking inventive step signals healthy trend

ANNA TO BINAYAK AND TATA

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright