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Scope of Medical/Health Emergency in the Indian Constitution

Before discussing about health emergency first I would like to take you to 1948, when constitution of India was being drafted. At that time India was going through a lot of stress because of many reasons like partition of country, Kashmir issue, riots etc. So the makers of the constitution thought to give central government an authority to declare emergency so that “when the stability and security of country is threatened by internal or external threats the Central government can take over the control and would be able to stabilize the situation”. So some emergency provisions were made in constitution to protect the integrity and stability of the country namely National Emergency(Article 352), State Emergency (Article 356) and Financial Emergency (Article 360). As it is very clear by the headings that State emergency deals with emergency in a state and financial emergency deals with finance so let’s have a look on National Emergency- In Constitution the provision of National Emerge

Pandemic patent pool at the world regime: Need of the hour

In this article, I will be covering a very short introduction of patent, what’s the concept of patent pool, what’s the need and purpose of patent pool and why Innovation related to pandemic like Covid-19 need a patent pool to overcome crisis in a efficient way by giving more importance to humanity over a personal intellectual right. Patent:- In general, patent means “exclusive right to the first and true inventor to make, use or vend his invention”. The purpose of creating and perceive of patent right is to protect ones intellect and made public his/her invention for public welfare in trading of little monopoly over its invention. Patent pool:- “Patent pool is an association of two or more companies to cross licence of patent in order to particular technology, invention or development and permit others to use the patent.” It can be classified on the fact that how the patents are exploited which is subject to the parties of the pool. It is a method by which aggre