-Down to Earth Apex trade regulator finds nothing amiss in India's intellectual property laws after exhaustive review India's intellectual property rights (IPR) regime, under constant attack from the US and multinational Companies (MNCs) over the past few years, has been given a clean bill of health by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). At a two-day trade policy review conducted by the apex organisation in early June, there was no criticism of a...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A clutch of Indian public and private sector Companies yesterday set up a nuclear insurance pool of Rs 1,500 crore needed for any compensation payments in the event of a nuclear accident, senior atomic energy officials said today. The nuclear insurance pool, with a contribution from a UK-based nuclear insurer, is expected to address concerns among international and domestic suppliers that India's civil nuclear liability law gives nuclear...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Several TV news channels died only because they could not afford the carriage fee charged by cable and DTH operators. The proposal of doing away with net neutrality, as mooted by a Trai consultation paper, raises the possibility of media websites too falling prey to the carriage fee model. This was the consensus at a workshop titled, "Erosion of net neutrality: Impact on the media". If the...

-Economic and Political Weekly A categorical distinction is facing rough weather--that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the outside world that comes in not just as external markets but as external inputs. Further, many of our villages barely qualify as rural if we were to take occupation alone. So the earlier line that separated the farmer from the worker in towns is slowly...

-Business Standard Unaware of govt's proposals, unions tell labour minister Reacting to the Union government’s move to give industries flexibility in hiring contract workers, trade unions on Tuesday charged the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government with violating consultation norms. “This is gross violation of the basic norm of tripartism and the Citu (Centre of Indian Trade Unions) hereby lodges its protest against such violation,” Tapan Sen, general secretary of Citu, said in a...