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The civil spring

Have an aggressive government and an overreaching judiciary curbed dissent?

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The real pandemic

Control your food. It is your business

Ethics on trial

Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…

When did CO2 become our planet's arch enemy?

Carbon dioxide was always essential for our planet, but when did it become too much?

Clouds over solar

With a pinch of salt

Fast food can be made less salty, finds research. But companies refuse to do so

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Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

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

Trade barred

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

Clash of the cyberworlds

In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur …

Battle for the Internet

As the Internet becomes the public square and the marketplace of our world, it is increasingly becoming a contested terrain. Its potential for …

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‘50 years of deception’: California sues five Big Oil companies for lying about climate change

Lawsuit against oil and gas companies for “creating, contributing and assisting in the creation of state-wide climate change-related harms …

US Congress tells government to oppose large dams

It also seeks compensation and redress to people who suffer violation of human rights, including forced displacement, resulting from loan, grant, …

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Wooing the judges, openly

There is conflict of interest as US patent owners schedule meetings with Indian judiciary and patent regulators

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 …