-The Economic Times   World Trade Organisation (WTO), the primary international body to help promote free trade has questioned India for providing subsidy on only indigenous ammonium sulphate and not on the imported fertiliser. " WTO has asked India to furnish details as to why it has kept imported ammonium sulphate out of the ambit of Nutrient-Based Subsidy (NBS) policy," a senior Fertiliser Ministry told PTI. The Fertiliser Ministry is still examining the...

-Mangalorean.com   Amid some misgivings here about India's acquisition of vast stretches of land, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Wednesday rejected charges of land grab as "loose talk" and welcomed Indian investment for development. "There is no land grab and there will be no land grab. Indian companies should not be constrained by this loose talk," Zenawi, the longtime leader of Ethiopia, said at a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister...

-DNA   Populism is the buzzword these days in the government and it seems ministries are competing with each other to win the race in UPA. While the mining ministry had proposed that companies will have to share a part of their profits with the people whose land is acquired for mining purposes, rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has proposed a moon to farmers. Coming as it does in the backdrop of...

To increase transparency, India’s patent regulator will soon make public details about patented drugs which include whether domestic demand for these medicines is met at a reasonable price. Patent holders in the country are required to submit once every year the so-called working details which include the quantity and value of a product that is sold, manufacturing base, quantity of production or imports, and a statement on whether public requirement has...

Compared to many parts of the world, access to the Internet content has been relatively free in India. Unlike people in countries like China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, etc, Indians do not face any government-controlled restrictions on accessing sites dealing with politics, religion or even mature content. But that might all change. In April 2011, the Indian government's Department of Information Technology issued new regulations, Information Technology Rules, 2011, under which any content deemed...