The government may keep a comprehensive amendment to the patents law in abeyance till 2005 and allow only exclusive marketing rights (EMRs) in the immediate future. An indication to this effect has

The dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organisation has asked India to bring its legal regime for patent protection of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical products in confirmity with the

Implementing the Kyoto environmental protocol would cost the US 2.4 million jobs and reduce gross domestic product by as much as $300 billion annually, according to a new study by WEFA, an

The urban development ministry is slated to introduce a bill in the Lok Sabha this week to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling Act of 1976, according to ministry officials. The Bill was ready for

The US government's Technology Development Assistance(TDA) has backed out from its commitment to fund a joint-sector centralised bio-medical waste treatment facility in Lucknow using micro wave

The Centre has sought the views of the state governments on the existing crop insurance scheme as it begins a process to review the scheme, possibly to replace it by a new

Delhi-based Byford group of companies has tied up with US-based Sanitac to set up the first ever centralised collection system for treatment of biomedical wastes in the country using hightech micro

Wood-based industries have appealed the government to allow corporates to undertake industrial plantations to help industries to meet their raw material requirements, they said. This was stated by

The government is expected to endorse the draft of the International Labour Organisatio's convention on child labour. This is because the ILO is now focussing on putting a halt to "cetain forms of

The central assistance to States for environment protection projects has been raised by over Rs 150 crore in the current fiscal compared to the level in last fiscal's revised budget. The provision in