It is a singular honour and privilege to present this supplement immediately following the 5th Brics summit held in Durban last month.
After a seven-year battle, India’s government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn’t deserve one.
India’s Supreme Court has rejected a patent bid by Novartis in a ruling that will protect access to generics and save lives in developing countries.
A tourism industry survey in India has shown tourists are shunning travel there over sexual assault fears, contradicting the state’s rosy picture.
After positioning itself as the champion of the African continent, South Africa must now develop and articulate a comprehensive Brics strategy.
Three ad mock-ups for the Ford Figo hatchback were leaked on the internet last week and have caused controversy for their sexually violent nature.
The meeting of Brics leaders next week could uncharitably be described as a summit of the world’s emerging economic powers – plus South Africa.
India’s government has insisted it has the votes to steer major economic reforms through Parliament despite the resignation of ally ministers.
Police in central India have paraded a group of men on television, who were arrested over the gang rape and robbery of a Swiss cyclist.
Five villagers have confessed to gang raping a Swiss tourist in central India, police said.
Many drugs cost far more in South Africa than in countries with strict patent-vetting processes.
The main accused in the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi in December has hanged himself in jail while in solitary confinement.
A global squabble over property rights could see the price of medicine soar in poor countries.
Poachers in north-east India have slaughtered 13 rare one-horned rhinos in the last two months, say officials.
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the government has nothing to hide in a $750-million deal for AgustaWestland helicopters.
The rivalry between China and India for control of Zimbabwe’s mineral resources has intensified, writes Ray Ndlovu.
The trial of five men charged with the rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi has opened with testimony from the man with her during the ordeal.
Five men pleaded not guilty after being indicted in a special court on charges of rape and murder, in the gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus.
The case has provoked outrage and anger, coming against a background of rising violence against women in India.
Following a brutal gang-rape and murder in India last month, ‘anti-harassment’ police have fined single women and couples for being out after dark.
New research shows ancient Indians migrated to Australia and mixed with Aborigines 4 000 years ago, bringing the dingo’s ancestor with them.
A seven-year-old girl has been raped in a school toilet in the Indian holiday state of Goa, sparking mass protests and the arrest of her principal.
We rewind to the news headlines this week; from protests in the Cape to the outcry over the gang-rape in India, and a Japanese hacker plays hide and seek.
A popular Indian spiritual guru sparked a backlash after saying the student could have averted a murderous gang-rape by begging for mercy.
Five men charged with the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi are due to appear in court for the first time.
The father of an Indian student who was brutally raped says he wants her name made public so she can be an inspiration to victims of sexual crimes.
A group of 600 guitarists have paid tribute to the Indian gang-rape victim by playing a version of John Lennon’s "Imagine" at a music festival.
Test cricket will fill the sporting year, but these might be its last days in the sun. India has reinvented the sport as ‘crickertainment’.
The father of an Indian student whose gang rape and death sparked public outrage against the government has demanded that those responsible be hanged.
India’s government is to roll out the first phase of its hugely ambitious plans to hand out cash to welfare claimants.
Thousands of Indians have joined protests in a mass outpouring of grief and anger after a gang-rape victim died in a Singapore hospital
The death of a victim of gang rape in India is predicted to spark a new of protests and more national debate about violence against women.