Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
Given the uranium crunch, the Indo-US nuclear deal is crucial to India's ambitious programme. The opposition stems from a mental block, writes M.R. Srinivasan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission India is facing a severe uranium crunch
The NDA's prime ministerial candidate, L.K. Advani, has, in a television interview, expressed confidence that elections are likely to be held in 2009, and not this year. He also took the unusual step of visiting Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of Holi to …
India on Tuesday said it would not move forward on the civilian nuclear deal with the U.S. until a political consensus was achieved. The government was making efforts to evolve a "meeting ground' with the Left parties, supporting the ruling coalition from outside and opposed to the deal. "If we …
EXTERNAL affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday told his American hosts that the government was engaged in the process of resolving the "political problems' in the implementation of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The two sides, which resolved to work for the operationalisation of the agreement, discussed the progress in the …
Land acquisition problems are threatening another project in West Bengal. A 68.4-km-long road, planned two years ago for improved connectivity between the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport and the Indo-Bangaldesh border, is stuck, with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) unable to four-lane an inch till date. The …
India's efforts to firm up a safeguards agreement with the IAEA have a moved a decisive step forward with the agency today for the first time giving a firm statement that both sides were "close to a final text', indicating that only a few minor issues now remained before the …
India has an ambitious plan, the vision 2020, to become one of the most developed and advanced countries of the world. For achievement of Vision 2020, India needs to have development at the rate of 10pc. The country will need a large quantum of energy to run its enormous infrastructures. …
Atomic point: Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (right), and Dr Anjan Chaki, Director, AMD, at a meeting in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Here is an existential dilemma. They belonged to Bengal till they woke up one morning to find themselves in Jharkhand. Now both the states won't have them. Bengal won't have them because what was their village has submerged under the sea and they have scampered on to chars or new …
The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research is enthused by the discovery of uranium at Wakhyn in Meghalaya and the permission to prospect in the Rajiv Gandhi Tiger Sanctuary. "WE were encouraged by what we established at Lambapur... We had always called Lambapur the tip of the iceberg," said …
What is the basis of the serious questions raised by you about the safety of nuclear reactors, especially the Russian-made ones to be set up in Tamil Nadu? In 1995, when I started gathering all the status reports, I found recommendations made in 1979, 1987 and 1995 were not being …
The Indian government has once again rejected an allegation that 27.5 tonnes of heavy water produced in Norway was diverted from Romania and Germany to India. Atomic Energy Commission chairman P K Iyengar said in his reply last month to the Norwegian foreign office India produces and even exports heavy …
