Campaign against biopiracy picks up momentum
After turmeric and neem it is the turn of basmati rice. The Americans seem to want to appropriate the entire Indian kitchen going by the number of traditional items they seek to patent.

Unhealthy healthcare
In 1999, while 70,000-100,000 people were killed by natural disasters, 13 million died of infectious diseases, who could have been saved by spending a mere $5 per person on low-cost, community driven health campaigns, reveals the recently released World Disasters Report.

Minor gains; major challenges ahead
There's a long way to go. India may have won fringe battles by climbing up a few notches on the Human Development Index (HDI), but the war is going to be quite long drawn out.


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