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    Amendments to Patents Act introduced
    NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The Government today introduced the third set of amendment to the Patents Act, 1970 in Parliament to meet India's obligations under the agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and avoid any retaliatory ...

    BJP protests against U.S. action
    NEW DELHI, MARCH 18. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress may be poles apart in their views on the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, but on the issue of denial of a visa to him by the United States, both parties felt it is a matter ...

    G-20 sets deadline
    NEW DELHI, MARCH 18.The Group of 20 developing countries ministerial meeting today set a five-year time frame for doing away with trade distorting export subsidies by rich countries even as it sought to reach common ground with other developing ...

    No intention to end energy projects in Iran: Japan
    NEW DELHI, MARCH 18.Despite the United States' well-known concern about third countries investing in the oil and gas sector of Iran, Japan has no intention of ending its energy projects with the Islamic Republic. In an interview with The ...

    "More than oil at stake in Iraq"
    MUMBAI, MARCH 18. "There are more things than oil at stake in Iraq. The U.S. has imperialist designs on the region, using Iraq as a base and invading it was the first step. A lot of reasons bring the American to our country," said Osama M. ...

    An emotional journey
    ALIGARH, MARCH 18.It was an emotional journey back in time — more than six decades ago — as Begum Zareen, mother of Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, today spent four hours at her alma mater, Aligarh Muslim University, where she ...

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