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...this has particular importance for developing Asian countries, especially India, where a mix of development means that biomass-burning and diesel combustion remains prominent. (In developed countries like the U.S., there's much less burning of biomass and any diesel combustion tends to be much cleaner, as the clearing skies over major U.S. cities demonstrate.) Though India is responsible for less than 3% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, according to Ramanathan it is responsible for about 6% of global black-carbon emissions, give or take a significant margin of error. India and other developing countries rightly argue that rich nations...
...biggest issue is the fact that they are still planning on patenting in the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—and that is problematic,” said Jillian L. Irwin ’11, a member of Harvard UAEM. “For us, the challenge is to ensure that they are not putting patents [on the drugs] and that there is a strategy in place for poor people to get them...
Krishna M. Prabhu ’11, a member of the Harvard chapter of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), said that he thought that medical patents were problematic and adversely affect human health in developing countries such as India and China...
Currently, the six-school pledge makes an exception for “special circumstances” in developing countries, including India, China or Brazil, allowing drug patents in some developing countries...
Moments later, late folksinger Noor Jehan's 1965 anti-India war song filled the air. Four decades after that song was written, as many Pakistanis now realize, it is the enemy within that poses the real threat. And Ismail Farid's wide-ranging collection of monochrome martial attire paid a somber-colored yet loud homage to those soldiers "who have lost their lives during past operations and the continuous terrorist attacks." Headgear ranged from stiff officers' hats to turbans coiled in razor wire. The makeup was smeared on faces to resemble battlefield camouflage and war wounds...