Taken by the horns

Gujarat buckles under farmers’ pressure, shrinks special investment region planned for industries

A people’s festival to protest CBD conference

Non-profits to represent united resolve to protect the country’s natural wealth and bio-cultural heritage from powerful economic interests

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

Unholy smoke!

Inclusion of intellectual property in bilateral investment agreements is injurious to the health of developing nations

Letter

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

Will appellate body uphold grant of compulsory licence to cancer drug?

Hearing on Bayer's appeal against manufacture of generic version of Nexavar to conclude this week

Government withdraws NPPA’s power to fix prices of non-essential medicines

Prices of cardiac, diabetes, HIV/AIDS drugs likely to be affected

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Standing up to the US

India does not have to be apologetic about its patents law, which is fully compliant with WTO requirements on intellectual property protection

EU threat to farmers

Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector

Fall of a premier institute

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

Trade barred

Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier  

Nirma whitewash

Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

This is the first-ever compulsory licence given to a generic drug company

Real estate boom, quarries to blame for Pune disaster?

Ambegaon taluk where disaster-struck Malin village was located had become a realty hot spot and had mines; it is located in the ecologically …

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 …

US piles on the pressure

Patent law, domestic content rules in solar and ICT policy come under attack

Big step for biocultural rights

The Nagoya Protocol promotes community stewardship of genetic resources. India needs to foster this

Coffins for the EU Delegation in Delhi

Health activists protest against the EU-India investment treaty under negotiation now

Common concerns

As the commons come under increasing assault, academics, practitioners and policymakers come together to devise ways to protect shared resources

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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 …

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