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Top cases on the United States Supreme Court's docketThe U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing significant cases. These cases cover voting rights, presidential authority, immigration policies, and g...
Office health check-up detected cancer; high-performing manager forced to quit now pushing for anti-discrimination lawA senior manager discovered he had thyroid cancer during a company health check, only to be terminated weeks later. After battling illness ...
Doctor can't be punished for prescribing a medicine from any pharma company: HCThe Orissa High Court has provided relief to doctors. It ruled that prescribing specific drugs, even from particular companies, isn't a cri...
Elon Musk ban on remote work at X beats disability bias claim for nowThe lawsuit claims X violated a federal law requiring employers to accommodate workers' disabilities. Elon Musk said in a memo to the compa...
Challenging gender stereotypes: CJI Chandrachud cites years of him caring for ailing wifeChief Justice DY Chandrachud, in a lecture, addressed gender pay gap and homemaker's rights in India. He emphasized society's subjective al...
Racist, sexist, casteist: Is AI bad news for India?With a population of 1.4 billion powering the world's fifth-biggest economy, India is undergoing breakneck technological change, rolling ou...
Can't direct govt to frame law on forced religious conversion: Delhi High CourtThe high court said it can make recommendations to the government but for that to happen the petitioner has to first make out a prima facie...
Senate leader, presidential candidate Bob Dole dies at 98Dole announced in February 2021 that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. During his 36-year career on Capitol Hill, Dole became o...
Real India vs hatemongering: Partisanship can never destroy idea of IndiaWe don’t need more laws but we want existing laws to be strengthened and an end to discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, communit...
At big risk: Girl child losing out on cancer treatmentGender bias among families of paediatric cancer patients worrying, say doctors.
Farage prefers immigrants from India, Aus to eastern EuropeansFarage has always claimed to be the only party leader with a "non-discriminatory" policy on immigration as UKIP would not give preference t...
Pharma exports slowest in 15 years, to miss target this fiscalThe US is the top destination for Indian pharma exports followed by the UK. America accounts for about 25 per cent of India's pharma export...
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth calls meet of top officials on India-US pharmaceuticals issueIndian Ambassador to US S Jaishankar has suggested that the Indian government should engage with US pharma firms to deliberate on the matte...
Indian patent laws sound, unchallenged: Drug companies tell US International Trade CommissionAs many as 11 of the 12 new treatments approved by the US drug regulator in 2012 to treat cancer are priced at over $100,000 per treatment ...
India rejects US allegations; says IPR regime WTO compliantIndia today asserted that its laws are fully compliant with international agreements and the country has never deviated from global practic...
Government likely to stop discussing IPR regime with US bilaterallyIndia is likely to stop discussing IPRs issues bilaterally with the United States, toughening its stance against it.
India may take US to WTO if included in priority country listIndia is likely to drag the US to WTO if America includes it in the 'Priority Foreign Country' list for intellectual property rights.
Government officials decline to meet USITC officialsGovernment has decided not to meet the officials of the USITC, a federal American agency which has initiated a probe against domestic trade...
Indian patent law doesn't discriminate against US companies: IPAIndian Pharma Alliance (IPA) writes to Roy Waldron after he slammed country's IP policy as protectionist and discriminatory.
- US Congress makes genetic discrimination illegal
It will be illegal for employers and insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic data that can identify risk of future illnesses o...