-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After being in deep freeze for over three months, a global trade deal is finally in sight with the US and the European Union showing signs of accepting India's demand for providing flexibility to developing countries in fixing minimum support price for farm products. In return, India will sign the stalled international treaty on easier customs rules once an agreement on the contentious food security...
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Trademark war: ‘Khadi’ registered in Germany, Spain -Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government's efforts to promote 'khadi' are facing a trademark hurdle with the brand having been registered abroad, in countries such as Germany, as well as in India. After haldi and basmati, this is the latest instance of infringement of intellectual property rights, which is essentially traditional knowledge. What makes the task more difficult for the government is that 'khaddar' and 'khadi' are common across the...
More »Warming signals -Navroz K Dubash
-The Indian Express Attitudes toward climate change in India can appear paradoxical. Although India is one of the countries most deeply vulnerable to climate impacts, climate change does not rank high on policymakers' list of concerns. Two factors explain this inattention. First, India has pressing and immediate development concerns, such as providing sanitation, improved healthcare and access to affordable energy to its population, while the effects of climate change appear abstract...
More »Food Corporation of India in need of restructuring as corruption mars operations -Prabhudatta Mishra and Pratik Parija
-Livemint India is closer to breaking up FCI as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat New Delhi: India is closer to breaking up Food Corporation of India (FCI), an agency at the heart of the world's largest public food distribution programme for the poor, as graft and waste leave 255 million people without enough to eat. "Private companies should buy, store and distribute the grains as much...
More »Sunita Narain out of PM’s climate change panel -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday recast the almost defunct Prime Minister's council on climate change, a move seen as an effort to handle climate issues pro-actively from the top. The revamped body is to meet soon to take key policy decisions ahead of the Lima climate conference next month. Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been dropped from the body - an apparent reflection of the Centre's discomfiture with...
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