UN climate talks: little progress in first week

No consensus on Green Climate Fund, loss and damage arising from climate change impacts

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

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

Run up to Doha climate summit: parties make final pit stop in Bangkok

Round-tables proposed on vision and ambition, Uthra Radhakrishnan reports from Bangkok

Civil society raises alarm as regional free trade negotiations get under way in Delhi

‘Regional FTAs will jeopardise farming, dairy, manufacturing and generic medicines sectors’

Civil society groups call for an end to carbon markets, green economy

Margarita Declaration, issued at the end of the four day pre-COP conference in Venezuela, was backed by UN but goes against the global agency's …

Should smallpox virus specimens be destroyed or retained?

World Health Assembly to take a call on two remaining specimens in upcoming meet even as some scientists urge against their destruction; two …

Health activists ask Centre to stand firm on price control order for 50 life-saving drugs

Contrary to pharma industry claims, price control notifications for 50 cardiovascular and anti-diabetic drugs will impact retail market only …

EU threat to farmers

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

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 …