American firsts & un-American bursts

Donald J. Trump seems set to reconfigure the United States. Whether he knows it or not, he is tearing apart more US symbols than any other president in living memory. Among them is multilateral trade that the United States introduced during the 1940s; the collective military force (the North Atlantic...

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Providing GI tags to different products is not the end of the story

Another heritage product of Bangladesh comes under the protection of Geographical Indication (GI)-- a form of intellectual property right (IPR). It is Khirsapat mango of Chapainawabganj which becomes the third GI-tagged product in Bangladesh after Jamdani sari and Hilsha fish. It is also the second agriculture product which avails GI...

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