Rather than focussing on manufacturing, Indian companies need to concentrate on conceiving, designing and branding products.

Details on prices sought as 10 generic drugs become up to 83 times costlier in 6 months

Cadient clients are spread across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer health and medical device industries.

The prime minister and president stated their intention to expand defence co-operation to bolster national, regional and global security.

Congress on Wednesday launched an all-out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his US visit was "disappointing" on outcomes and claimed that an atmosphere of a grand event was created with the help of "cheerleaders" many of whom brought from India.

New Delhi has always maintained that its IPR regime is fully compliant with all international laws.

India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.

Western drugmakers, including Pfizer Inc, Novartis AG, Roche Holding AG and Sanofi SA, covet a bigger share of the fast-growing Indian drugs market.

The 'Make in India' concept in the defence sector has the potential to help India meet 70 per cent of its defence needs in a few years.

US congressional leaders on trade and finance wrote to the US International Trade Commission calling for a second investigation into India's 'unfair' trade practices, detailing any changes under Modi.

Industry sources peg Kohli's investment in the FC Goa franchise at under Rs 1 crore a year.

'The bonhomie that once characterised the Shiv Sena and BJP was clearly missing this time. Is there a deeper divide than what was apparent?'

First was the desire to tap the large domestic market while remaining competitive in global markets.

'I couldn't think of a more visible strategic form of cooperation than both of our armed serves using a similar weaponry jointly developed together.' Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC on what is expected in the India-US defence relationship during Prime Minister Modi's visit.

How far investors will be convinced by Modi's promise to replace red tape with a "red carpet" remains to be seen.

The Obama administration sees India not only as a land of huge potential for expanded business and trade but also as a strategic partner in the face of an increasingly assertive China, whose leader visited Modi in India last week.

Instead, increases in foreign-direct-investment levels; and reforms to make labour, land and capital more mobile.

Narendra Modi and Barack Obama will ponder over ties twice over, says Nayanima Basu

US wants to include climate change deal in it; India disinclined

Deal to bolster firm's position in healthcare IT.

'Pay-for-delay' settlements between drug patent-holders and generics manufacturers to delay the launch of cheaper generic medicine are increasingly being scrutinised by antitrust regulators

Pfizer Inc and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Friday won dismissal of a U.S. antitrust lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to delay sales of generic versions of the best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor.

Users seem to like the idea too: in a recent survey by technology consultancy IHS, 83 per cent were interested in wireless charging; in China, the figure was 91 per cent.

Apple Inc's embrace of wireless charging for its new Watch may be a defining moment for a technology that's languished for years amid competing standards and consumer confusion.

A new generation of scholars -- this time, sociologists and anthropologists, who hitherto have been busy with researching social practices of primitive tribes and social structures like India's caste system -- are starting to cast their eyes on the financial sector.

A mechanism on whistle blowing is mandated from October and third-party entities managing such services give staffers far more confidence to blow the lid on wrongdoing.

Under MRA, Japan is to recognise Indian medical degrees and treat the country's doctors and other medical personnel on par with its own.

Silicon Valley can be replicated, but this will only be achieved so long as fresh talent is welcomed by both our countries - a move that will surely spark a billion ideas and discoveries.

Ideas don't have border controls and visas.

In his first email to employees, Vishal Sikka exuded confidence that he will build a sustainable business.

Says India stands to gain by setting up a level playing field instead of creating trade barriers

India in the last five-seven years did not do as well as it could to push progress.

The study surveyed 545 IT and IT security practitioners in India with an average of 8 years experience in the field, he added.

Apple had taken Shanghai-based Zhizhen Internet Technology and China's State Intellectual Property Office to court to seek a ruling that Zhizhen's patent rights to a speech recognition technology were invalid.

Top executives of American pharma companies favour "dialogue" with India and "not confrontation" to address their concerns on key issues like the protection of intellectual property (IP) and clinical trials.

This is to take head on big American pharmaceutical giants, which in the recent past had launched a strong anti-India campaign against efforts of such companies to provide affordable health care not only to people in India, but also in the third world countries.

The report '2014 International Piracy Watch List,' by International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus highlights the high levels of piracy and the lack of legal protections for copyright in China, Russia, Switzerland and India.

The sops being given to the IT firms in metro cities should be extended to companies in tier 2 and 3 cities as it will generate greater employment opportunities and boost growth, industry body Nasscom has said.

India needs to get back to economic growth of seven to 10 per cent growth.

Reflecting concern about Internet security, the United States has said it won't tolerate government-sponsored cyber theft of trade secrets even as it brought cyber-espionage charges against China's five military officers for allegedly stealing classified corporate information.