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23.02.2007 Novartis AG had filed a batch of petitions challenging the order of rejection of its patent application for beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate and section 3 (d) of the Act as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act. Additional Solicitor-General, V.T. Gopalan,told the Madras High Court the amended Section 3 (d) of the Patents Act and the explanation were valid.

19.02.2007 Residents of the embattled northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna who get to see the ‘Uthayan’ newspaper often get a copy that is thumb-worn and soiled from having passed through the hands of many avid readers.

14.02.2007 from timesunion:
'The British Guardian newspaper was almost gloating about the bad news in the IPCC climate report... Fortunately, there is a solution, one that is grippingly unoriginal, requires no special knowledge of economics and is easy for any country to implement.'

12.02.2007 Faced with energetic and widespread popular protests against special economic zones, India has decided to go slow on this particular model of industrialisation based on creating export-oriented tax-free enclaves.