Full Coverage: Globalisation

23.02.2007 Novartis AG had filed a batch of petitions challenging the order of rejection of its patent application for beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate and section 3 (d) of the Act as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act. Additional Solicitor-General, V.T. Gopalan,told the Madras High Court the amended Section 3 (d) of the Patents Act and the explanation were valid.

20.02.2007 ¿Existe un sitio desde el cuál se pueda mirar lo que sucede en el mundo? ¿Es posible identificar un centro de la globalización? Este tipo de preguntas me asaltan una y otra vez después de leer distintos análisis sobre la globalización

15.02.2007 Eurooppalaiset kukkien tuottajat arvostelevat brittiministerin kehotusta suosia afrikkalaisia leikkokukkia. Leikkokukkia valitessa maanosaa tärkeämpi kriteeri on tuottajan vastuullisuus ja mahdollinen sertifikaatti, joka takaa työelämän perusoikeuksien noudattamisen kukkatiloilla. Näillä perusteilla eettistä kukkien tuotantoa löytyy myös Afrikasta.

06.02.2007 Delhi’s (and India’s) public schools are actually private schools. Getting access there is no less a achievement than tackling the IIT’s JEE. Perhaps no where is this more true than in the Nation’s capital , where even getting your child into a kindergarten class is so nightmarish that they are governed by court directives and the admissions process is monitored by the Delhi High Court.

01.02.2007 It has become a cliché to say that there are two countries, India and Bharat. And yet, it is a truth whose full significance is being experienced and digested only as the multifarious processes of a globalised capitalist economy unfold in the two countries.