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Battle royal over Bt cotton royalty
Rediff.com28 May 2010

A quiet but determined battle is being fought in the courts, and outside, by US...

Who's afraid of Synthia?
Rediff.com27 May 2010

Venter's patent application for his synthetic cell creation has set off a frenzied...

Why Roche lost a patent battle in India
Rediff.com13 May 2010

The Valcyte case is vital as it bars incremental innovation and recognises the right of...

A word of caution on EU's trade agreement
Rediff.com15 Apr 2010

Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with...

Column: India's appalling environment laws
Rediff.com8 Apr 2010

The Lafarge mining case has highlighted the appalling weakness of the environmental...

Bt cotton: Monsanto is back in courts over royalty
Rediff.com1 Apr 2010

Not all state governments have been kind to the global seed giant Monsanto. And cotton...

Intellectual property rights: Brazil vs US
Rediff.com19 Mar 2010

Brazil plans to break IP rights on American drugs, music, software and movies as...

Biotech Bill: Sweeping powers, glaring omissions
Rediff.com11 Mar 2010

The biotech regulatory Bill gags dissent and takes away the power of states without...

The absurd MNC-backed 'India Project'
Rediff.com4 Mar 2010

MNC-backed IP summits try to influence sitting judges on patent law enforcement issues...

How Microsoft is 'using' India's skewed patent law
Rediff.com24 Dec 2009

Microsoft's methods of protecting copyright have been slammed by the court as abuse of...

Environmental governance model: No green signal
Rediff.com18 Dec 2009

Even though Nepa, composed entirely of specialists, is envisaged as a statutory body...

Thumbs down for environment ministry revamp
Rediff.com18 Dec 2009

Forests Jairam Ramesh's ambitious plan to redesign the institutions of environmental...

View: Do we hear the curse of the dying children?
Rediff.com12 Oct 2009

A bloody confrontation with the Naxalites will not solve the problem of governance...

Why the city gas distribution is in a mess
Rediff.com10 Sep 2009

Snarled in spats with established players and legal cases, the gas regulator has done...

The remarkable saga of Narendra Jadhav
Rediff.com11 Aug 2009

Jadhav has a certain way with the crowds with his earthy Marathi speeches he got...

India: A fuel-starved nation
Rediff.com25 Jun 2009

The national gas grid is still a mirage and all the pipelines are making a beeline for...

Dealing with nasty EU customs
Rediff.com10 Jun 2009

The more pernicious of these measures is EC Regulation 1383 that allows customs...

The Binayak Sen factor
Rediff.com25 May 2009

While celebrating our democracy and its biggest rituals we also need to think about the...

The big city-gas dream
Rediff.com4 May 2009

Policy air bubbles and implementation snags could block plans to connect India's cities...

Why IBM has the offshoring blues
Rediff.com15 Apr 2009

The publication of IBM's claim for a system that would make offshoring of jobs more...