The plan is to help establish one or more technology transfer hubs that will transfer a comprehensive technology package and provide appropriate training to interested manufacturers

The TRIPS waiver would lift certain intellectual property barriers and allow countries to locally manufacture COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.

Despite increased demand for COVID-19 vaccines in India COVAX expects to deliver doses to all participating economies that have requested vaccines in the first half of the year

Oxfam urged the rich countries to open the way to cheaper mass-produced COVID-19 vaccines in order to protect every person in the world.

The temporary TRIPS waiver would allow countries and manufacturers to directly access and share technologies to produce vaccines and therapeutics without causing trade sanctions or international disputes

India was one of the initiators of the 'Political Declaration on Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines' that garnered the support of more than 180 UN member states

The move comes after India and South Africa, along with several other countries, have urgently gone to the WTO seeking a time-limited waiver of the TRIPS agreement

At a press briefing, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries with their own vaccine capacity should start waiving intellectual property rights as provided in special emergency provisions from the World Trade Organization

SC says there is no obligation on a person to deduct tax at source, as the end-user licence agreements in these cases do not create any interest or right in such end-users, which would amount to the use of or right to use any copyright

\"People are dying in poor countries,\" Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, new chief of WTO, said on her first day in office

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India \"self-sufficient\" long before Nehru's ideas took root

China passed a law last month which for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels

China passed a law last month which for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels

The four Indian markets that have found mention in the list are Heera Panna in Mumbai, Kidderpore in Kolkata and Palika Bazaar and Tank Road in Delhi

Reducing the regulatory compliance burden is a priority area for the government. There are a lot of compliance burdens and we have to reduce that. Every ministry is doing this on a war footing, a senior official said

The government should also consider setting up of a unit where platforms may voluntarily (sans any obligation) refer content issues for guidance and views. The platforms can therefore be saved from taking a view on their own accord in tricky situations

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India has urged the World Trade Organisation to waive off intellectual property rights on vaccines, treatments or technologies that could prove helpful in global attempts to combat coronavirus pandemic

The investments of Facebook and Google in Jio Platforms have cemented RIL's position, catapulting its market value and putting it way ahead of TCS in the No.1 spot

\"We invest in content creation, we produce it and license it to platforms. The entire show is financed by us, the rights are with us,\" explains Applause CEO Sameer Nair