Creative India: tapping the full potential
India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India’s creative economy, explores the many challenges faced
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
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Farmers in distress
A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations
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It s all in the name
Thai farmers and activists object to a US company s use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety
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Patenting life forms
Europe approves the legislation for patenting organisms
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Now, isabgol
In the wake of growing demand in the West, multinational companies are attempting to patent isabgol
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Kudos to Kanis
in the very first instance in India of tribals getting intellectual property right (ipr), the Kani tribe in the agastyar hills in south Kerala has been awarded Rs 5 lakh for an anti-fatigue
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Tribal rights to the fore
The veryfirst scheme to recognise the intellectual property rights of the Kani tribals in Kerala, ran into rough weather, only to bounce back into action
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Undercover bio patenting
A recentforum on patenting life forms in Munich chose to remain a hush hush affair leaving out people's groups
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PIRACY GALORE
Intellectual property rights have been given avirtualgoby in Pakistan. The evidence is the flood of pirated books, music, audio casets settes and computer software, mo smuggled in from the Far
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Informational intricacies
NO INDIVIDUAL can hope to remain anonymous as integration of computing and telecommunications has vastly improved the ability to collate, classify and analyse information about each person.
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The challenge of the balance: environmental economics in India - proceedings of the national environment and economic meeting
The number of institutions trying to integrate environmental concerns with economics is still small in India, especially given the size of the country and the diversity of its environmental problems and challenges, but a small beginning has already been made. This volume presents the proceedings of the national environment and economics meeting held in January 1994, in New Delhi.