US President Biden announces COVID vaccine sharing plan

United States President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his plans to allocate 75 per cent -- nearly 19 million of the first tranche of 25 million doses -- of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the......

China listening, Jaishankar brings up territorial integrity at BRICS online meet

In a major move, influential five-nation grouping BRICS on Tuesday supported a proposal by India and South Africa to temporarily waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines as it held extensive......

Why Obama is critical of India in his book

He had come in search of jobs in America to rescue his presidency and India failed him in more ways than one, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Then US president Barack Obama toasts then......

Nations supporting terrorists should be held guilty: PM at BRICS

The five-nation grouping BRICS on Tuesday adopted a new counter-terrorism strategy to effectively deal with the menace, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that there is a need to ensure that......

Govt to encourage SMEs to go in for patents

The government, in collaboration with the UN-body World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has commissioned a study to ascertain whether India's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are......

India to be firm on IPR at AIDS meet

India is readying to take a 'zero tolerance' position in the ongoing tussle between the developing and the developed world on a regime for Intellectual Property Rights, at a three-day United......

Rediff wins cybersquatting case against Pakistani

Online services major Rediff.com India Ltd has won a cybersquatting dispute against a Pakistani person, who was using an identical domain name and illegally incorporating the Indian firm's......

China fifth in UN patent filings, India way behind

China is on its way to become a global leader in scientific research, while India has a long way to go, according to data issued by a Geneva-based organisation on international patent filings. The......