Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

WTO gives India a clean chit

Apex trade regulator finds nothing amiss in India's intellectual property laws after exhaustive review

Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

Science and Technology - Briefs

Testing the CL route

Roche’s Herceptin will be a test case for government and generics industry as India readies to issue compulsory licences for life-saving drugs

Fall of a premier institute

Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …

Public health over profits

Can green mean free?

Fair farming

The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies

Trade truce

It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions …

In Short

Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …

Trail of a $500 m gene

How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …

A treaty too many

India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the …

The hunt for benefits

India is hailed as a pioneer in implementing the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity—fair and equitable sharing of …