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As the latest version of the bill has made the right to recourse nearly impossible for the Indian operator, BJP, which had promised support, warns the Centre of an Opposition backlash in ParliamentOur Political Bureau NEW DELHI WITH the Cabinet diluting the right to recourse of the operator to sue …
Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada will arrive in New Delhi on Saturday for the fourth strategic dialogue with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna. On top of the agenda is the civilian nuclear cooperation deal. Okada is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh …
NEW DELHI, 20 AUG: Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, the government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability Bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by …
New Delhi: The government has ensured safe passage for the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage after sealing a deal with BJP on Tuesday by agreeing to a guarantee against private firms running power plants and bumping up the
THE UPA government has secured the support of BJP for the nuclear liability bill after it made concessions which, among other things, include shutting out private players from the nuclear sector. This represents a setback for Indian private companies that are keen to enter nuclear power equipment business. US and …
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill is expected to finalize its report on Tuesday even as there appears to have been little headway in negotiations between government and the Left and BJP over the proposed legislation. There are strong indications that the …
New Delhi: With UPA-2 under intense pressure to ensure the passage of a civil nuclear liability law, the BJP on Wednesday asked the government to come clean on why it wanted to push through the proposed legislation ahead of US president Barack Obama
THE Opposition on Wednesday managed to put off tabling of the NuClear Liability Bill by at least a week, but unfazed by the lack of consensus over it the government was planning to take up the legislation in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament itself. The standing committee on science …
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill on Tuesday heard representatives of the Department of Atomic Energy offer their views on the Convention of Supplementary Compensation. The DAE brass did not specifically state whether India was going to become part of the CSC …
New Delhi: The political positioning on civil liability for nuclear damage bill became clearer with BJP presenting what it said were fundamental objections to the proposed legislation with regard to a law when liability for a nuclear accident was to be borne by either the government or a company owned …
New Delhi: If the dominant view in the parliamentary committee examining the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage prevails, the proposed law will be fitted with tougher clauses detailing
The Indian government, at the last round of commercial negotiations with Russia for the supply of four additional reactors at Kudankulum, had wanted the contract to include a clause allowing for the
Swaraj Thapa The nuclear liability Bill is set to undergo significant changes. These will include increase in the timeframe for filing claims from 10 to 20 years, extending the definition of
Clause-By-Clause Discussion On Bill Deferred, No New Date Fixed New Delhi: The civil nuclear liability bill may have been the priority number one for the government just a few months back, but now it faces the uphill task of getting past the standing committee on science and technology. It is …
WHILE Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is keen on getting the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill passed, his enthusiasm on the subject is not shared by his party. As Congress engages its main political adversary in a pitched battle, the prime minister
New Delhi: With the fate of civil liability for nuclear damage bill getting enmeshed with stalemated ties with Left and fresh hostilities with BJP, the government is open to defining responsibilities for a nuclear accident more closely. The government is open to inserting clauses that will cover eventualities like accidents …
The government on Tuesday stepped up moves to ease potential hurdles before the Nuclear Liability Bill in Parliament by holding consultations with Opposition leaders with the assurance that all
Giving in to pressure from Opposition members, the Standing Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday postponed deliberations on the Nuclear Liability Bill. The committee, which had earlier decided to hold clause by clause deliberations on the Bill on Thursday and then bring it before the Lok Sabha, has now …
