• Tata Wants Spectrum Policy Review
  Rata Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group and an important player in the Telecommunication space, has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the spectrum allocation plan that treats the scarce resource inefficiently.<More>

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• Reneging Huwawei Bids for BSNL
  Chinese networking vendor Huwawei Technologies said that it will bid for a major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) GSM contract even though it had reneged on its earlier CDMA contract after winning the bid by quoting the lowest price.<More>

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• Affirmative Action Replaces Job Quotas?
  Indian industry and the Government seemed to have arrived at an agreement where an affirmative action policy and a training of disadvantaged population are seen as an effective substitute to the dreaded quota system.<More>

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• India wants tighter US IPR Regime
  Citing numerous instances of US companies trying to patent and monopolize traditional knowledge, India asked the US to tighten its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime and institute better verification and compliance norms.<More>

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• India’s Moon Mission on Track
  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that India’s moon mission Chandrayaan-1 scheduled for launch in 2007-2008 is on track with increased interest from foreign space organizations to participate.<More>

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• US May ‘Amend’ Nuke Deal
  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the US may propose some amendments to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal within the “spirit” of the July 2005 agreement that India should be prepared to accept.<More>

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