Trade

Cranes at the Vallapardam port. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Does South India Need Three Trans-Shipment Ports to Compete With Colombo?

Nidhi Jamwal 10/12/2017

Shipping industry experts fear the proposed Enayam port, proximate...

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Time for Costly Medicine Monopolies to Go From TPP Trade Talks

Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, Hazel Moir, Joel Lexchin, Ruth Lopert 13/11/2017

The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal...

Forensic medical assistant Bayer sorts test tubes filled with materials for DNA testing in Munich.

Civil Society Group Boycotts RCEP Consultation, Calls for Parliament Debate on Trade Deal

Anoo Bhuyan 26/07/2017

Worried about the impact of the trade negotiations, a...

The government of India, through five state-run insurance companies and Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India, owns a 32% stake in ITC. Credit: Reuters

LIC Thinks PIL Against Its Investments in Tobacco and ITC Is Frivolous

Anoo Bhuyan 26/06/2017

The public interest litigation seeks the divestment of 32%...

India's global export of pharmaceuticals is double that of China. Credit: Pixabay

The World Is Looking For Affordable Drugs – and India Needs to Keep Delivering

R. Viswanathan 09/05/2017

The export of generic pharmaceuticals is one of India's...

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RCEP and Health: This Kind of ‘Progress’ is Not What India and the World Need

Shiba Phurailatpam and Kajal Bhardwaj 27/02/2017

Concerns remain over the impact of RCEP negotiations on...

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Regulating Rampal Power Project Could Mean Trouble Under the India-Bangladesh BIT

Prabhash Ranjan and Pushkar Anand 11/10/2016

If Bangladesh were to adopt regulatory measures against the...