America’s frozen aid

A commodity from their former colony kept the English cool in 19th century India

WTO members agree to discuss proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 technologies 

The waiver would increase access to technologies crucial to fighting the pandemic

WTO decision on access to COVID-19 drugs without strings delayed

Proposal will be formally discussed in March next year, sources say

Dissent on Seeds Bill

Kerala and Bihar want amendments

Belated resurrection

COTTON CONCERN

Lost chance

Gridlock over farm trade issues continues

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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

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

PROHIBITED FOREVER

Smuggler arrested

Save the wild