A beaten path
Suresh Prabhu is by no means breaking new ground. He is merely mouthing the same promise made time and again, but never fulfilled, by his predecessors
Greens scream blue murder
Environmentalists and Democrats in America gear up to tackle the Republican "onslaught" on landmark protection laws
Filthy lucre
US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry …
Share-ware
A usual story: a transnational company develops a profitable product based on the resources and knoledge preserved by an indigenous community …
"Right should belong to scientists"
For the first time in India, the draft of the Plant Varieties Protection (PVP) Act is being finalised by the ministry of agriculture. India, as a …
Going off course
As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico-legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed