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 …
In a possible way around the practical hurdles posed by the supplier liability clause in the civil nuclear liability law, the government is all set to make it clear in the rules and regulations of the law that a supplier will be liable only for a fixed time period and …
Sarah El Deeb A doctor would have recognised the signs of chronic malnutrition immediately in the seven-month-old girl, the swollen stomach, the constant cough. Her mother, though, had only traditional healers to turn to in her Yemeni mountain village, and they told her to stop feeding the girl. The mother's …
MUMBAI: In a sheer coincidence, two reactors at BARC in Trombay, which have played a key role in India's nuclear weapon programme, will celebrate their anniversaries-one golden and the other silver- on Saturday. The 40 mw Indo-Canadian Cirus reactor went critical on July 10, 1960, and the 100 mw Dhruva …
Pune Scientist's at the High Energy Material Research Laboratory (HEMRL) in Pune have indigenously developed the most powerful non-nuclear explosive in the world. They are now looking at lowering its manufacturing cost. Named CL-20, it
India and France are expected to sign agreements on civil nuclear cooperation, space and culture during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrives Saturday. No defence deals are expected to be signed, officials said here Wednesday. Sarkozy will be accompanied by his top cabinet ministers, including ministers of …
HAND-IN-HAND: U.S. President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint news conference at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday. New Delhi: The United States has become the first nuclear weapons state (NWS) as defined by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to endorse the idea of talks …
Iran said that it is ready to resume talks with the West about its nuclear programme in November, officials at the European Union said here on Friday. In a two-paragraph letter to the bloc
New Delhi: India will sign the international agreement on nuclear damages, the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage, on Wednesday. The Manmohan Singh government has informed the IAEA that it
Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr has international approval and …
In line with its commitment to the United States, India will formally approach the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday to sign the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) on nuclear damage. If all goes to plan, the signature, sources said, will also take place on Wednesday. India has been …
India moved swiftly to quell any misinterpretation that the Indo-Japan civilian nuclear agreement had been put on the backburner after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in answer to a question from a prominent Japanese businessman, had earlier on Monday seemed to signal that he would not push the pace for a …
Bringing to bear his political weight amid, so far, unsuccessful efforts at the official level to bridge differences on a range of critical issues, US President Barack Obama is learnt to have written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveying America
With Japan playing hard ball in the negotiations on the civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he would not "force" it on Tokyo as he recognises its sensitivity on the subject. However, Dr Singh, who is here on a two-day visit, said he would like Japanese …
