Big pharma’s dirty tricks

Drug giants from GSK, Abbott and Pfizer to Bayer have been fined for serious malpractices. They should be under close watch in India

What is healthy oil for our healthy bodies

Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

The India effect

The US is targeting India's patent law because it is inspiring other countries to follow suit

A great panic

Overextended banks crashing, leading to recession. 1873 revisited

India's climate dilemma

Will India toe the US line of capping carbon emissions from farming?

Big blue trips up Twitter

IBM’s claim of patent violation by Twitter reflects the madness in software litigation in the US

Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets

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

Patently hollow claims of the US

Global organisations and academics defend India’s IP laws and call for US to back off

Why do we need patents?

There is no empirical evidence that patents serve to increase innovation and productivity

Tesla's `insane' move to free up patents

The electric carmaker's decision could spur a revolution in green vehicles and in the way patents are viewed

2nd coalition of the willing: bad for climate and for us

The US and us

Ignore US bullying on IPRs

Countries should not be stampeded into changing laws by the USTR's arbitrary Special 301 report

Environment Day special: ACmageddon

Shale gas: dubious game-changer

All is not well: climate negotiations in a new avatar

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

Rotten tomato for Monsanto

US biotech giant's claim on a natural tomato is its latest patent to be revoked by Europe after soy and wheat

Cotton quandary

As China, the world's biggest cotton buyer, restricts imports, the US aggressively competes with India for global market. Can India stay in the …

Left sees red over Marx copyright

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

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda