While the Supreme Court upheld the IPR of an MNC, the Uttarakhand HC upheld the liability of another MNC to share the benefits it was deriving from exploitation of local biological resources
Currently, India is counted among the top-20 global medical devices market and is the fourth-largest market in Asia after Japan, China and South Korea. The government’s move to allow 100% FDI in the segment has also helped
National Health Policy has merely paid a lip service to old-age related issues as nothing concrete has been specified in the policy in relation to the matters concerning old-age population
The bite in the insurance sector is of the recent rejection by the regulator—Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)—of the proposed merger of HDFC Life and Max Life.
The president has given his assent to the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. The Act seeks to introduce measures to safeguard the interest of consumers in commercial as well as residential real estate markets
According to a July 2014 report by the Migration Policy Institute, 2.6 million Indian immigrants live in the US, making it the third largest immigrant population in that country.
With one year of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’ already over, one would hope we have four years dedicated to establishing a certain regime, if not an investor-friendly regime