-The Hindu Business Line Cut in funds is a major setback: civil society activists New Delhi: Economist Prabhat Patnaik and civil society activist Aruna Roy criticised the Narendra Modi government over various issues on Wednesday. Releasing a report card on the first year of NDA rule, they said the government is not displaying transparency and accountability to the people. Patnaik said all the explanation that the Centre is giving about the increase in...
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India to get own version of class action lawsuits -Dipak Kumar Dash & Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India is set to have a stronger consumer protection law with its own version of class action suits. As the term is usually defined, a class action suit is one in which one or several persons sue on behalf of a larger group of persons, referred to as "the class". However, the Indian version will not allow individuals to sue on behalf of a larger...
More »Pumping water out of waste -Shrikant Khuperkar & Maleeva Rebello
-Mid Day Mumbai: He has literally made waste fruitful. Kamlakar Sukhad Urhade, a tribal youth from Girgaon Bhujad Pada village in Talasari taluka has made a water pump out of discarded waste material. Urhade lost his father soon after he completed his education, and the responsibility of looking after his mother and two brothers fell on him. The family’s 5-6 acres of land yields rice, but only during the rainy season....
More »Profit makers funded by Ford Foundation illegally, probe finds
-PTI NEW DELHI: US-based Ford Foundation has funded a political party and profit-making organizations "illegally" which has resulted in the foreign outfit coming under the home ministry scanner and it being put on the "watch list". A senior home ministry official said an investigation has found that funds sanctioned by the Ford Foundation to an NGO have reached a political party, which automatically makes the donor liable to face action. But the...
More »Pharma Patents after 10 Years
-Economic and Political Weekly Ten years on, the progressive provisions of the amended Indian Patents Act are being watered down. Ten years have passed since the Indian Patents Act, 1970 was amended in 2005 to bring the country’s laws in line with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The most important of the 2005 amendments was the introduction of product patents for 20 years, including for pharmaceutical products,...
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