One important provision of the Bill is to a National Transportation Policy with a view to establish a planning framework within which transport bodies and all forms of road transport would operate.
The Centre proposes to amend the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) Act to thwart attempts being made by foreign companies to obtain intellectural property
Symbolic gestures have a way of calling attention when everyone gets caught up in the detail. The betrayal on cotton became a symbol. The four cotton exporting west African nations have been savaged
It was neither the "Singapore issues" nor developing country protectionism that contributed to the collapse of the Cancun ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. It was the unwillingness
As part of its vision 2020 initiative, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to develop 'green park' for those industries which promote green technologies and products and energy efficiency
The legal experts and environmentalists have stressed the need for expediting reforms in the justice delivery system and training of pollution control enforcement agencies to reduce pollution level
Giving a boost to the cause of liberalisation advocates, a paper by the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) has shown that decline in the incidence of poverty in the nineties was greater than that in
In the run-up to the Assembly elections, the battle between the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan has got a new whipping boy
Who said: "The Doha round was supposed to make a landmark difference, in the sense that the interests of developing countries would be centre stage. Cancun showed that this was mere rhetoric. The
An ambitious roadmap has been drawn up by the Chennai-based MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) here for achieving the goal of a hunger-free India by August 15, 2007, which marks the 60th
After the collapse of the Cancun ministerial, a decision on resumption of negotiations on key issues such as agriculture, non-farm products and the Singapore issues in Geneva rests with the trade
