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Saturday, January 3, 2026
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Topic: Lays

Special Lays variety potato was caught in a legal soup. But HC has now come to its rescue

In 2021, the company lost rights over its FC5 variety potato variety, grown exclusively to make Lays. But on Wednesday, Delhi HC allowed it to go ahead with registration of its variety.

Delhi High Court restores PepsiCo’s patent for potato variety used to make Lay’s

In 2019, PepsiCo sued some Indian farmers for cultivating FC5 potato variety, accusing them of infringing its patent. It sought over Rs 10mn each for alleged patent infringement.

Has Lay’s Magic Masala changed its taste? Chips are down, tempers rise

If Achhe Din has come anywhere, it is in the snack food aisle. GenZ is spoilt for choice, unlike millennials who grew up on Kurkure & 4 flavours of Lay’s at the local kirana store.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.