India must go to this year's G7 summit with a Plan B on COVID-19 vaccinesIndia must offer a Plan B, a vaccine partnership, in which India shares know-how to manufacture indigenously developed and approved vaccine...
07 Jun, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
WTO's TRIPS Council to discuss revised proposal of IPR waiver to deal with COVID-19The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agre...
23 May, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
India and US discuss revised proposal for TRIPS vaccine waiverThe focus of the revised proposal – also backed by South Africa – will continue to be ensuring “equitable, affordable and timely access” fo...
16 May, 2021, 08.58 AM IST
Supply chains for vax manufacturers must be kept open: Piyush Goyal tells USTRCommerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday held discussions with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai on increasing vaccine ava...
14 May, 2021, 10.40 PM IST
WTO to take up India, South Africa's intellectual property waiver plea for COVID-19 vaccineThe World Trade Organization will once again take up the proposal of India and South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday to drop certain provi...
10 Mar, 2021, 09.19 AM IST
WHO backs India & South Africa's IPR waiver proposal to WTO for Covid treatmentThe move gains significance as global drug makers involved in the development of Covid therapeutics have refused to give up patents over th...
19 Oct, 2020, 11.29 AM IST
COVID-19: Travel, hospitality companies assure customer-support"We are closely working with all our airline and hotel partners on lenient customer policies for date change, cancellations and waivers in ...
17 Mar, 2020, 07.31 PM IST
Scared of tax penalties and imprisonment on black money? This may help you get immunityHowever, the final decision on whether to grant immunity or not rests with the concerned tax authority where you have appealed for the same.
10 Nov, 2016, 03.13 PM IST
Breakthrough cancer drugs all set for India launchThe accelerated regulatory clearances cut the time lines for introductions of the two big brands which may be expected to be introduced by ...
03 Aug, 2016, 06.35 AM IST
UK court asks Pakistan to pay 150,000 pounds to India as legal feeLegal fee concerns to the 67-year-old Hyderabad Funds case involving the Nizam's money while terming Pakistan's behaviour as "unreasonable".
22 Mar, 2015, 01.02 PM IST
Khobragade fallout: India expels senior US diplomatThe unnamed Director-rank US diplomat was given "a little more than 48 hours" to leave India even as Khobragade was on her way home from Ne...
10 Jan, 2014, 07.21 PM IST
Devyani Khobragade row: Government asks US Embassy in India to withdraw a diplomatThe charges Khobragade will remain and she will have to face trial, if she returns to the US without diplomatic immunity, US Attorney said.
10 Jan, 2014, 05.52 PM IST
Devyani Khobragade indicted for visa fraud, leaves for IndiaThe charges against 39-year-old Khobragade will remain and she will have to face trial, if she returns to the US without diplomatic immunit...
10 Jan, 2014, 11.23 AM IST
Devyani Khobragade indicted for visa fraud, granted diplomatic immunityThe indictment said Khobragade had made multiple false representations, or caused them to be made, to obtain a visa for a domestic worker.
10 Jan, 2014, 08.07 AM IST
India refuses US request to waive Devyani's immunityKhobragade has not left the country as being reported, after the US Attorney had informed the District judge Shira Scheindlin about it in a...
10 Jan, 2014, 06.19 AM IST
- Does Italy remind you of Vienna? Here are the rules
With the Supreme Court restraining the Italian ambassador from leaving India, complex issues relating to diplomatic immunity and valid exem...
15 Mar, 2013, 08.05 AM IST
- UK asks India to waive off diplomatic immunity for Anil Verma
Meanwhile, the wife of the Indian diplomat, has gone into hiding with the couple's five-year-old son over fears for her safety, a media rep...
17 Jan, 2011, 05.53 PM IST