CSE is ranked as the no 1 think tank on environment policy in the global south according to latest edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania. The report ranks CSE among the top 16 environment think tanks globally. As accelerating advances …
Deal Says if Govt falls acting in national interest, so be it JAYAS (AMETHI): Praising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "vision, tenacity and leadership' on the Indo-US nuclear deal, AICC general secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi today said the deal was worth the risk and "desh hit mein sarkar gir …
CPI (M) Politburo member and Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said it is up to the Speaker to decide on his resignation. "The Speaker's office should not be sucked into controversies," he said. Two more pro-UPA jailed MPs
Meeting For IAEA Board Members & Some In NSG Only IN A last-minute change of plan, India has decided to reduce the number of countries it will brief on the IAEA-India specific safeguards agreement and keep the IAEA secretariat out of the picture for the July 18 meeting. Instead of …
Amidst the din of charges and counter-charges of horse-trading, Samajwadi Party on Tuesday took the issue to the Speaker's court, alleging that its MPs were being coerced into voting against the UPA government. SP leader in Lok Sabha Ramgopal Yadav and party general secretary Amar Singh met Speaker Somnath Chatterjee …
Despite recent verbal duels over politics of vendetta, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh wants Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron Parkash Singh Badal to show statesmanship on the July 22 motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha as he and his party did in passing the rivers waters agreements annulment Act …
Somnath Chatterjee has refused to quit, rebuffing CPM boss Prakash Karat, who wants him to resign as Speaker of Lok Sabha before July 22 so that Chatterjee can vote against the government in the floor test. Chatterjee, whom the party expected to step down, refused to yield, telling Sitaram Yechury …
C UDAY BHASKAR Strategic Analyst and Commentator It was prudent not to release it earlier NO. I am of the considered view that the government of India (GOI) did not have to make public the agreed text of the India-specific IAEA agreement earlier than it did. While it is true …
www.radicalcartography.net/nuclear_full.png North Korea was at the receiving end of global condemnation after it announced that it carried out its first underground atomic weapons test in 2006. The US, Japan, China and Britain were the first to criticise and demanded action by the United Nations Security Council. Barring Japan, all these …
Raising the pitch on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress-led Government for "deceiving the country' by forwarding the safeguard draft of the nuclear deal to the IAEA members "even before winning a trust vote in Parliament'. "Our misgivings about the Government's approach have come true. …
A day after formally severing ties with the UPA, Left parties on Thursday attacked the Government for approaching the IAEA Board of Governors without proving its majority in Parliament, dubbing the move as a "shocking betrayal of moral commitment' made to the country. They vowed to make it "politically' impossible …
Left announces withdrawal of support, to meet President today : SP makes it official: will support Govt and deal Ending their tempestuous relationship of over four years, the Left parties today announced withdrawal of support to the UPA over the Indo-US nuclear deal and asked the President to direct the …
ON BOARD PM'S AIRCRAFT : Buoyed by the turn of events on the political front for the Indo-US nuclear deal, an upbeat Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that India will go to the IAEA with the safeguards agreement "very soon' and that he did not expect elections …
The die has been finally cast. The UPA government has decided to approach the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to finalise the India-specific Safeguards Agreement. Although there is a huge amount of support within the country for the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, one wished the government had been a little wary …
Power from nuclear energy is a failed project in developed countries and the eagerness of the Prime Minister to clinch the Deal fails to generate any enthusiasm among the common people of India, opines Dr Sandeep Pandey Amidst protests against price rises of essential items throughout the country, the Prime …
HK. DUA's front-page editorial, "India must not go back on nuclear deal' (June 20) gives a pertinent account of India's potential to acquire some degree of parity in the world's nuclear power club with uranium and high technology on terms honourable for it. The Left's reservations on the deal are …
N-deal exposes comrades' old mindset by Amulya Ganguli How deep is the Left's commitment to the national cause? A look at the case for prosecution may be worthwhile. For a start, it is necessary to remember that the communists have spawned insurgent groups like the Naxalites or the Maoists, which …
Indrani Bagchi | TNN New Delhi: With the nuclear deal getting a fresh lease of life in the twilight of the Manmohan Singh government, there appears to be a reignited buzz on both sides of the Atlantic. US undersecretary for political affairs, William Burns, who succeeded Nicholas Burns on the …