Farmers in eastern Uzbekistan are likely to face criminal charges for growing fruits, vegetables and other crops that they can sell instead of cotton and wheat demanded by the state. The

the Chhattisgarh government is dragging its feet on recommendations of the state Public Accounts Committee (pac) in the Sheonath river water supply deal in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district.

pakistan president Pervez Musharraf recently suspended chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on allegations of misconduct and misuse of authority. Lawyers, opposition parties, human rights

The Bayh-Dole Act was passed on December 12, 1980, aiming to give universities, small businesses and research organisations intellectual property control of inventions that come out of federally funded research. The act enables the private sector to buy rights to produce inventions from research institutions.

The Norwegian government has stopped funding World Bank's Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), says World Development Movement (WDM), a UK-based group. Norway's move comes close

Now it is the turn of the Rajasthan government to be bowled over by biofuel. At a press meet in Jaipur on January 11, 2007, parliamentary affairs minister Rajendra Rathore relayed the decision of the