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nsg India gets into nuclear family On September 6, the 45-member nuclear suppliers group (nsg) lifted its 16-year-old embargo on nuclear commerce with India. The tough negotiations in Vienna went down to the wire after China, which had sounded positive in the run-up to the nsg meeting took a different …
Why conduct N-tests when accurate, N-armed missiles will deter better? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's long drawn out battle to end India's nuclear isolation is almost over. All that now remains is for the US Congress to endorse the 123 agreement. Contrary to a belief fostered by the Opposition, and swallowed …
CORPORATE America is investing millions of dollars in an intense lobbying effort to convince lawmakers in Congress to ratify the Indo-US civilian agreement, fearing it might otherwise lose opportunities to earn megabucks in an Indian nuclear industry poised to open its doors to foreign investments. For one, the US-India Business …
INDIA has broken the regional chains and emerged as the new geostrategic force in the world. The paradigm has shifted, the world has adjusted, the rules have changed and the nuclear isolation has ended. That it all happened largely on India's own terms makes the achievement that much more significant. …
In his hotel room in Vienna, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon sat tensed waiting for the outcome of the plenary session of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on September 6. He was conscious of the irony. The NSG was formed in 1974 as part of an angry reaction to India's …
President Bush has failed to achieve so many of his foreign policy goals, but last weekend he proved that he can still get what he really wants. The administration bullied and wheedled international approval of the president's ill-conceived nuclear deal with India. The decision by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group …
The Bush administration is beginning a race against time to win congressional backing for a landmark deal with India after convincing more than 40 other countries to allow international nuclear trade with Delhi. India's multibillion dollar civil nuclear sector will be opened to foreign energy companies following Saturday's decision in …
Nuclear energy will enable India to meet the twin challenges of energy security and environmental sustainability. It will also have major spin-offs for the development of the industries, both public and private. The 123 Agreement between India and United States of America would put an end to technology denial regimes …
Siddharth Varadarajan May move amendments to draft in Board meeting New Delhi: In a four-page letter addressed to Board members of the IAEA, Pakistan has attacked the draft Indian safeguards agreement for envisaging termination conditions and fuel supply arrangements which could allow India to "divert part of [any imported] fuel …
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. …
P. S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: The U.S. on Saturday urged North Korea to "abandon' all its nuclear weapons in a culmination of the process set on course by Friday's demolition of the cooling tower at the Yongbyon complex. The U.S.' call acquires unusual importance because of Japan's comment that the elimination …
P. S. Suryanarayana The 25-metre cooling tower was built in 1986 Blast for peace: The cooling tower of the nuclear complex being demolished in Yongbyon on Friday. SINGAPORE: The cooling tower at the Yongbyon complex, suspected to be the nerve centre of North Korea's plutonium-based nuclear weapons programme, was on …
Iran said on Tuesday it would continue enriching uranium, defying efforts by major powers to pressure Tehran into stopping such work. The EU's top diplomat on Saturday presented Tehran with a package of economic benefits to try and persuade it to stop its nuclear program, which the West fears could …
As the alarm over soaring oil prices and losses on Wall Street sent markets tumbling across Asia today - the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex tanked over 500 points, at one stage dipping even below 15,000 points before ending the day at 15,066
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The Roadrunner supercomputer costs $133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons. The new machine is more than twice as …
The US Energy Department has applied for a license to operate a long-delayed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, US Energy Secretary Sam Bodman announced on Tuesday. Bodman said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will take about three years to review and decide whether to approve the license request …
For four years, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has lived in the shadows, confined to his Islamabad home since a tearful televised confession in which he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. On Thursday, the 76-year-old scientist returned to the spotlight with …
