Maintenance for wife and children: final and interim
What is the law's position on maintenance for the wife and children, after a divorce? What happens if the courts take years to arrive at a final decision regarding maintenance? Can the wife and children avail of interim maintenance during pendency of the proceedings?
Action plan to ease disease burden of developing world
Despite the staggeringly disproportionate impact of disease on the developing world, pharmaceuticals develop drugs that have a potentially profitable market rather than drugs that are urgently required in poorer countries. Will this change with the World Health Assembly's recent adoption of a global strategy to fill gaps in existing R&D and work towards drugs needed for diseases that affect developing countries?
Revolutionising bio-cultural research
'Western' science has treated the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities as a resource to be exploited. Now, a more collaborative relationship between the two is being forged. The most remarkable development is the return of 420 potato varieties to the Quechuas of Peru by a scientific establishment
'Can you do family planning of nilgai, sir?'
All of us hate the idea of hunting or killing wildlife, writes Ashish Kothari. But with villagers across India facing increasing attacks by wild animals, conservationists must realise that in the interests of both wildlife conservation and people’s livelihood security we must look beyond the narrow ethics of individual animal protection to a broader one of survival of species and ecosystems
The 'husband' in the context of cruelty, dowry death and the validity of marriage
How does one interpret the expression “husband” in the context of the offences of cruelty and dowry demands, in cases where the validity of the marriage is in question?