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 …
Tonic for the industry, trial for the patients
Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a …
Submission date postponed for green audits
India was the first country in the world to make environmental audits mandatory, hoping it would encourage industry to shift from pollution …
How images can break or make corporations
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Glamorous and profitable, too
Biotechnology, which holds the answers to many persistent problems such as controlling disease and increasing food production, has tremendous …
Will MNCs displace the domestic industry?
MNCs are virtually shutting out indigenous manufacturers from the urban slice of the telecom pie, but the fault is not entirely theirs.
Disciplining the enfants terrible of industry
Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country's industrial production, but their …
Rise in exports is at the cost of the environment
With the pollution-conscious West pushing large-scale production of toxic chemicals to India, the result is more exports and more environmental …
A green corner on balance sheets
The environment audit for industries purports to make industries accountable to the public for their actions