-PTI The regulator is working hard to ensure that small investors' savings are not put to risk, says Sebi chief U.K Sinha With lakhs of investors getting defrauded by Ponzi schemes in West Bengal, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairman U.K Sinha on Wednesday said the regulator is working hard to ensure that small investors' savings are not put to risk. "Within the powers given to us, Sebi is working extremely...
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-The Business Standard The Novartis verdict by the Supreme Court emphasised the importance of flexibilities in drug patent laws, in contrast to Western countries which are seeking TRIPS-plus hardening through free-trade agreements As curtains on the six-year-long legal tussle with Swiss drug giant Novartis AG finally came down earlier this month, the Indian government did not waste a second in hailing the Indian patent law which it said was in "full...
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-The Indian Express FOR Suranjan and Tumpa Choudhury, a couple from Madhyamgram in North 24-Parganas district, darkness has descended for the second time in their lives. In 2007, Suranja lost his job after the factory, where he worked shut down abruptly. He was then 36. A friend of him advised him to invest in Saradha Group and become an agent of the company. He had no other option than to accept...
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-The Hindu Business Line Arsenic and fluoride contaminated water has condemned millions to live wasted lives in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Business Line visited several villages in the affected regions for this special report by A. Srinivas. Sixty-nine-year-old Renubala Ari of Deganga village in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district is counting her last days. But it is not her death that worries her. Blind in both eyes and with painful...
More »This Lok Sabha could be the least productive in history -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India The present Lok Sabha could well end up with the dubious distinction of being the least productive in terms of business transacted among those that completed their full five-year terms. According to statistics compiled by the Lok Sabha secretariat, 1,157 hours of sittings had taken place until the 12th session of the 15th Lok Sabha, which was elected in May 2009. Among the Houses that completed five-year terms, the...
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