| Eade queries handling
Respected Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade believes the AFL should have handled the Adam Selwood-Des Headland sledging case in the same manner as racial vilification cases are handled - in private by way of mediation.
Selwood will appear before the AFL tribunal on Wednesday night, charged with using insulting language towards Headland over allegations he made inappropriate comments concerning his six-year-old daughter.
The Eagles are emphatically denying the charge with Selwood to put his side of the story at the tribunal tomorrow night as Headland also defends a six match ban for striking Selwood on two separate occasions.
The Selwood case shapes as a test case for the AFL and could involve the outlawing of sledging on the field, in much the same way as racial vilification has been outlawed for more than a decade.
Govt to tap MNCs to cut prices of patented drugs
NEW DELHI: PRICES of medicines, which would get patent protection in India in due course, would be sold cheaper than their lowest international price. Currently, Canada sells patented drugs cheaper than anywhere else in the world. The Canadian government negotiates with pharmaceutical corporations to sell patented drugs cheaper. Now, India is working on a system, wherein prices of drugs would be pegged significantly lower than that in Canada. The guidelines for such negotiation, which the chemicals and fertilizers ministry is working on, will translate these prices into probable Indian prices by taking into account the purchasing power of both the currencies. In India, drugs that fight cancer and the body's urge to reject an organ after a transplant are the costliest ones, and would most likely be candidates for mandatory negotiation.
Qualcomm Says Nokia Payment An Admission: Qualcomm
Going for Nokia's jugular Qualcomm is now claiming the moral high ground saying the phone company is tacitly admitting Qualcomm owns the rights to the disputed CDMA technologies currently being licensed by it. The American wireless technology company has issued an "arbitration demand" with the American Arbitration Association, claiming that Nokia's continued use of Qualcomm patents in its CDMA handsets obliges it to pay the same royalty as in the current agreement and prohibits it from asserting patent claims against Qualcomm. The existing license agreement signed in July 2001, expried on April 9th, forcing Nokia to use its right to extend the agreement under the terms of the first licence. This is exercisable through the end of 2008. .
Ducks will Jet-tison all comers
- Memo to all inveterate hockey poolsters: Pick anybody you want in your playoff draft. Select Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, Guy Lafleur and Dit Clapper, for all I care. Just don't spend the rest of the spring telling people about your savvy picks. Nobody cares. Not even your mother. Thank you.
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