Not brewing right

Tea in the Darjeeling hills is losing its flavour

Seed of a dispute

Monsanto on strong wicket

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

On tenterhooks in Geneva

Europe threatens carbon tax on Third World

Trade war over green energy

Japan v Canada; US v China

The irrelevance of multilateralism

Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime

India, South Africa block attempt to include ‘investment facilitation for development’ agreement at WTO meet

New issues should not be considered for ministerial mandates unless past decisions and unfulfilled mandates were acted upon, states India

Food for warmth

As winter sets in, people in north India turn to savoury dishes and sweets that can keep them warm. The market at this time is flooded with …

The Ice Story

Amit Shanker talks about a random photograph that helped him reveal how Americans kept British cool.

Malawi and maize: Prices have spiked on the back of bad weather and trade bans

Sustained excess margins in Malawi indicate that regional trade is not working well

Red Sea crisis: Suez Canal is not the only ‘choke point’ that threatens to disrupt global supply chains

Choke points are narrow parts of main trade lanes, usually straits or canals

Book Excerpt: Across the seven seas

Former Ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee writes on how and why the system of indenture replaced the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Fruits of globalisation have gone only to few at the top

We need to rewrite the rules of economy to ensure that ordinary citizens benefit

Trade bans no lease on life for elephants

Tainted products

Net victory

Traditional Indian fisherfolk win hands down against discriminatory government plans

Labour at rest

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Smuggler arrested

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Global pet trade in amphibians is bigger than we thought

There is a strong bias for certain types of amphibians; six amphibian families contributed disproportionately high numbers of traded species

COVID-19 hurts farms: No buyers amid bumper mango season in Malda

Full-house at orchards despite pandemic keeping away workers, but hardly any transport now

New poster released to highlight threat to orchids from illegal trade

The poster was released ahead of Save the Himalayas Day 2022 and depicted 11 species protected under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972