Indian policy-makers are slowly waking up to the needs of a multilateral market which is placing a high premium on the environment. Following the US ban on shrimp exports from India, exporters are

Muchkund Dubey s crowning achievement at the end of an illustrious career as a diplomat was his role as India s foreign secretary during the Uruguay Round of negotiations. He spoke to Raksha Khushalani in Kathmandu about t

An American company appropriates the name 'basmati' as its own, and the contentious issue of patents and protection comes to the fore once again

SPUTTERlNG growth has been a characteristic feature of the world economy in recent times. Yet there are encouraging indicators of a major upswing that can sustain it over a relatively long

NGOs all over southern India are helping to revive the system of local medicinal plants and herbs, holding out the promise of not just cheaper and more effective healthcare for villagers, but also commercial profits

Ending bitter disputes over fishing quotas and farm exports, Morocco and the European Union (EU) signed wide-ranging trade and cooperation agreements recently. The pact, known as .

Poaching of endangered animals has a lot in common with drug trafficking. It has added fillip to the international medicine trade based on animal parts -an organised crime stretching from North

South Asian nations - Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives - will now be bound by the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) which is to come into

To ensure profitable agro exports, the South will have to cater to acute Northern green anxieties

Advertising local businesses on TV may soon become quite a rage

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