In the pay of plastics

India's biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West's fashion for unsustainable living

A bitter dose

Multinational drug firms gang up against a company that wants to produce cheaper generics

Novartis loses patent battle

Going nowhere

The biosafety protocol is still a chimera

World Bank's friendship with corporate sector

Higher royalty payments offered as bait to MNCs

In an effort to improve the quality of technology coming into the country, the Indian government has decided to remove the low ceiling on royalty …

In limbo

Will a disaster take place before strong laws are adopted to protect the world against irresponsible introduction of gmos?

The turkey buzzards

Facing resistance to the introduction of gmos in the North, business houses are waiting to take advantage of the South, including India, where …

Expenditure by Ministry of Cooperation jumped to 57% from 6% in just a month

The Union ministry spent Rs 136 crore in 10 months till January 31, 2023; then Rs 377 crore by February 24, finds a Parliamentary Standing …

Fighting for survival

Following economic liberalisation, India's largest power equipment manufacturer BHEL is diversifying and exploring renewable energy technologies …

Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals

The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some farmers …

Aliens!

Weeds acquire strange resistance to herbicides. Nature seems to go haywire. And causing all the confusion are genetically modified organisms, …

Haunted by the past

Five years ago, Nigerian social activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was killed because he fought against multinational oil companies and dared to assert the …

Are we ready to hand over on our life-forms?

There are certain plants, vegetables and fruits indigenous to India having medicinal properties. The knowledge of these properties rests with …

Mining giant keen on exploiting Borneo forests

Cut-and-paste patent report withdrawn

Life industry goldrush

Trade in bio-industrial products is on in full swing, conjuring up visions of El dorado. But whether the Indian industry can embark on this …

In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …

Back where it belongs

India emerges victorious from a legal wrangle with the US over the patenting of neem

Traditional Indian medicinal practices now safe

Trial or error?

The Indian government grants permission for trials of transgenic cotton

Sunil Shaunak on ethical medicine, patent laws

Sunil Shaunak of Imperial College, London, is pioneering 'ethical pharmaceuticals'. He talks to Subhra Priyadarshini about his work, evergreening …

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

One up

Monsanto wins a landmark victory in Britain

MIAMI GROUP VS rest of the world

Are genetically modified organisms a miracle that will solve the world's hunger problems or a menace that will threaten human health, environment …