-The Hindu Business Line Seek clarification on US trade representative's testimony that India has committed to address IP issues that concern America Mumbai: Has India informally agreed to make changes in its Intellectual Property Rights regime on the basis of US concerns? A sizeable section of the Indian pharmaceutical industry and some pro-health groups are worried that it has, following US Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman's testimony to the Senate Committee on...
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India is facing multiple burdens of malnutrition, says Global Nutrition Report -Arunima MIShra
-Business Today Public health risk due to malnutrition - including undernutrition, obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies - is a concern for every country. A roundtable held in New Delhi yesterday - From Data Deserts to Fertile Facts: Unleashing the power of data on nutrition in India - discussed the role of data at multiple levels for action on nutrition in India. This was part of The Global Nutrition Report, which was launched...
More »India Hits Its UN Poverty-Cutting Target, but MISses Others -Vibhuti Agarwal
-The Wall Street Journal Blog India is on track to cut poverty in half by the end of this year, compared to 2000 levels, but needs to do more to improve education and empower women, a United Nations report said Wednesday. In 2000, India along with 189 member countries of the United Nations charted out an ambitious agenda - the Millennium Development Goals, or MDG - to free millions of people from...
More »Rural reach -Amita Sharma
-Financial Chronicle From the inner recesses of Chattisgarh to the upper crevices of Sikkim, a look at how MGNREGA initiatives are changing lives The large blackboard outside the police station reads like a rate list. There are different monetary awards for Naxalites' surrender with different weaponry, the highest, Rs 4.5 lakh, for surrender with a light machine gun, Rs 3 lakh with an AK 47, and only Rs 30,000 with a 12...
More »Arun Jaitley hints at more spending cuts ahead of Union Budget
-PTI Having already crossed the fiscal deficit target in November, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday hinted at more cuts in spending so as to contain it within limits for the current fiscal, saying he does not believe in living on borrowed money. "We're trying to rationalise expenditure as far as the government is concerned because we do not want the government to live on borrowed money indefinitely," he told a gathering...
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