-The Hindu Gadchiroli: The villagers of Sindhesur village in Gadchiroli district , where seven people died during an encounter between police and the Maoists on Friday, alleged that the Maoists tried to use some of the villagers present at the spot as human shields. Two villagers of Sindhesur village Mukesh Hidko and Sukhdev Gawade died, apart from four Maoists and one police Jawan, in the cross firing between police and the Maoists...
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Why Novartis case will help innovation-Achal Prabhala and Sudhir Krishnaswamy
-The Hindu The Supreme Court judgment on Glivec is a blow for a patent regime with a higher threshold of inventiveness On April 1, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld the Intellectual Property Appellate Board's decision to deny patent protection to Novartis's application covering a beta crystalline form of imatinib -the medicine Novartis brands as Glivec, and which is very effective against the form of cancer known as chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). The...
More »NHRC gives clean chit to Chhattisgarh Government on Soni Sori-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: While various national women's organisations decried an attempt to make Soni Sori, the tribal school teacher accused of acting as a courier between Essar Steel and outlawed Maoists, undergo a "psychiatric evaluation" as a "sinister ploy" by the Chhattisgarh government, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has given a clean chit to the State government on the treatment meted out to the tribal school teacher. Last week, Ms....
More »Tribals in south Gujarat pay 90 per litre for petrol -Melvyn Reggie Thomas
-The Times of India SURAT: For the tribals living in interior villages of Dang, Tapi and Surat districts, driving a motorcycle has become a costly affair. While their counterparts in other areas, who have access to petrol pumps, are paying Rs 70.68 per litre, they have to shell out Rs 90 per litre for the fuel. With no petrol pumps in the interior villages, they are dependent on grocery stores selling petrol...
More »Congress attempts to recapture tribal votes with 3-tier remuneration scheme
-The Times of India After the job guarantee scheme played a crucial role in UPA's reelection, the government is working on a plan to reach out to 100 million tribals to ensure remuneration for minor forest produce. The government will unveil an ambitious initiative by June, after the Cabinet clears the policy. The plan is to have a mechanism to fix the minimum support price for a list of 10-15 non-timber forest...
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