-The Economic Times MUMBAI: India's strong stance on minor drug innovations could reverberate in national parliaments and courthouses of the developed world as Australia, the EU and Canada get ready to discuss and ban patent protection for frivolous improvements. A top Australian government body on Wednesday asked for changes in its patent laws relating to drugs saying that the indiscriminate grant of patents to incremental innovations should be checked and that...
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Common timetable for admissions under RTE-Asha Sridhar
-The Hindu Chennai: Private non-minority unaided schools in the city will, hereafter, have to follow a streamlined admission procedure for intake of students under the 25 per cent quota mandated by the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. A government order (G.O.) issued by the school education department on Monday prescribes not just a common schedule for issue of application forms and declaration of admission results, but also...
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-The Hindu Mumbai: Two activists of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) - Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali - who staged a ‘satyagraha' outside the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday were sent to custody by a Mazagaon court on Wednesday following their arrest by the Mumbai police. Mali was sent to police custody till April 10 and Sathe to judicial custody till April 17, their counsel Mihir Desai said. Both the activists, accompanied by political...
More »When innovation is under threat-Swati Piramal
-The Financial Express A patent law that is transparent, based on principles of good science & encourages innovation is in India's interest In 500 BC, in the Greek city of Sybaris, it was proclaimed that "encouragement was held out to all who should discover any new refinement in luxury, the profits arising from which were secured to the inventor by patent for the space of a year." England followed with the Statute...
More »A splinter in the service of police to combat Maoists-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu But both police and Tritiya Prastuti Committee deny claim Kunda (Jharkhand): All through Monday and Tuesday, cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of the banned CPI (Maoist), in the Sarengdah and Kunda panchayats in Chatra district kept track of what their leaders decided to do with the 25 Maoists taken hostage four days ago. In the March 29 attack, the TPC also killed 10 Maoists after...
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