Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal scrap kilns operating in Aravallis, 22/01/2025. The application was registered suo motu on the basis of the news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing in the Tribune dated 28.12.2024. The news item relates to significant environmental challenges …
An interview with Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). At Jadugoda in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, he observed a human settlement perilously close to the mines of Uranium Corporation of India. Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear …
When Barack Hussein Obama occupies the Oval office on January 20, 2009, he may go there with a strong India connection that has guided him through his formative years as a freshman senator
US Senate okays pact with India THE American Senate approved the us-India nuclear deal on October 2. The deal, already cleared by the us House of Representatives, was approved with a majority of 86 votes in favour and 13 against it. On September 6, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (nsg), a …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush meet in Hokkaido, Japan, on the sidelines of the G8 summit in July. AT the end of a three-day, marathon sitting at the second round of the Plenary Session of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group from September 4 to 6 in …
The real danger of the Indo-US nuclear deal is that it formally recognises India as a legal nuclear weapons state and provides the platform for a closer integration of the Indian state and the economy with the global economy and power structure. This simple truth is evident to almost all …
On a day when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew out to the US to put his final stamp of approval on the Indo-US deal in Washington on September 25, the CPM has alleged that the real objective of this deal has already been served with India asking American nuclear companies …
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike are gone from mainland United States, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is flying into a perfect financial storm that could make the US-India nuclear deal, a pet project of the Indian leader and the US president, a momentary casualty. Singh, a distinguished economist himself, will understand …
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. …
New Delhi: With India winning the backing of the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to trade in atomic fuel and technology in the global market, companies both at home and abroad are already eyeing a slice of the N-pie. So what kind of economic bonanza is India Inc looking at? …
BY MUKESH RANJAN With the Indo-US civil nuclear deal set to be clinched by the month-end, plans have been set afoot to prepare a roadmap for speedy implementation of projects augmenting nuclear energy in the country. For the purpose, ahead of his visit to the US next week, Prime Minister …
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 …
Critics are more worried about bomb than energy Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI EVEN as the Manmohan Singh government celebrated the end of three decades of nuclear isolation, critics of the nuclear deal criticised the waiver for
The cat is finally out of the bag. It is now official that the Bush and Manmohan Singh administrations have no common or agreed understanding on vital aspects of the Indo-U.S. deal for civilian nuclear cooperation. A detailed official Bush administration letter, dated January 16, 2008, which answered 45 political-technical …
