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...
22 Aug, 2024, 09.48 AM IST
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...
17 Dec, 2023, 03.26 PM IST
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...
11 Sep, 2023, 10.39 AM IST
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...
25 Jul, 2022, 07.32 PM IST
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...
05 Dec, 2021, 10.49 PM IST
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...
11 Dec, 2017, 12.19 AM IST
At big risk: Girl child losing out on cancer treatmentGender bias among families of paediatric cancer patients worrying, say doctors.
17 Dec, 2015, 12.09 PM IST
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...
23 Apr, 2015, 12.05 PM IST
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...
24 Apr, 2014, 04.59 PM IST
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...
18 Apr, 2014, 04.24 PM IST
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 ...
11 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
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...
04 Mar, 2014, 05.53 PM IST
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.
25 Feb, 2014, 04.13 AM IST
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.
24 Feb, 2014, 09.56 PM IST
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...
23 Feb, 2014, 11.26 AM IST
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.
29 Aug, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- 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...
03 May, 2008, 05.02 PM IST