Covid Vaccine IP: How Big Pharma lobbied against India

Communications between the USTR and the world's most powerful pharmaceutical and trade lobbying groups reveal that many raised concerns about India's push to exempt Covid vaccines from intellectual......

Where is Prashant Kishor headed next?

A second shot at UP?Radhika Ramaseshan reports. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   Success engenders unwanted speculation. For Prashant Kishor, the current round of assembly elections......

How Aadhaar promotes a digital caste system

The linking of biometric UID/Aadhaar number to all public services makes “We, the People of India” worse than slaves, says Dr Gopal Krishna. The second in a 7-part series. Illustration:......

How the government suppresses dissent

The mother of intolerance is the Union home ministry, run by ultra-conservative bureaucrats who are inclined to take a hard line on matters ranging from fighting insurgencies to putting citizens......

EPF issue: What led to so many U-turns?

  To make changes in such an area, it is critical not just to have the logic of economic reforms behind you but to win the informed consent of fellow ruling party politicians, rues Subir Roy......

Bharti Airtel to acquire Warid's Congo operations

To strengthen its footprint in the African market, Bharti Airtel said on Tuesday it has entered into a definitive agreement with the Warid Group to acquire its Congo operations. The acquisition......

Satyam appoints Deloitte as auditor

IT firm Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer) on Wednesday appointed Deloitte as auditors, within days of CBI charging Price Waterhouse of complicity in the Rs 14,000 crore (Rs 140 billion)......

'Don't delay punishment for Satyam fraudsters'

The Securities and Exchange Board of India chairman C B Bhave said punishment should be quick for the perpetrators of fraud at IT firm Satyam Computer. Bhave said that the Satyam issue had been......

Prem Panicker: A stutter no more, in a modest chase

'When Dhoni walked in, India needed 105 to win with 32 overs to play. The situation called for calm, nerveless, ice-cold execution without necessitating any adrenalin-fueled impestuosities -- the......

Jadeja's plea rejected

The Delhi high court rejected all-rounder Ajay Jadeja's plea to return to grade cricket following the Board of Control for Cricket in India's petition, challenging Justice J K Mehra's ruling, which......

Cricket - Newsroll

Waqar set to join WarwickshireFormer Pakistan captain Waqar Younis is set to sign for English county Warwickshire as a replacement for injured New Zealand paceman Shane Bond.Waqar, 31, is already......