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 …
CPI general secretary A B Bardhan on Sunday said that the UPA government shouldn't be sacrificed for the sake of the India-US civilian nuclear deal and the Manmohan Singh dispensation should focus on controlling inflation instead of trying to rush the deal. Bardhan, who was in Bhubaneswar to address a …
UPA Buys Time, Pranab Wants Left To Defer Pullout Indrani Bagchi | TNN July and September are emerging as key months in the nuclear-deal calendar that has been worked out between foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee and key officials. India is likely to start lobbying in earnest with the Nuclear Suppliers …
Caught between the tough lines they have pursued on the nuclear deal, both Congress and Left have now turned to allies to mediate to save the coalition from a seemingly irreconciliable situation. A day after DMK boss and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi warned that BJP could return to …
Sumantra Das What are the positions of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama and his Republican counterpart John McCain on the Indo-US nuclear deal, outsourcing, climate change and other issues that could affect India? As of now, here's where they stand. Indo-US nuclear deal / 123 agreement Obama: Promises to build …
Yoginder K. Alagh I have always functioned in an environment of intense contestations. At Jaipur in the Nehru era, my teachers were radical. In America during my college days, the economists who taught me, like Lawrence Klein and Daniel Thorner, had been hounded by McCarthy. But I taught at Wharton …
Canberra : India on Sunday said it would raise the issue of uranium sale with Australia as External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Sunday to carry forward the momentum in bilateral ties and ink two key treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. "We are …
BHUBANESWAR : Asking the UPA to focus on fighting inflation instead of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI on Sunday said the Central Government should not be sacrificed in the name of such an agreement as nobody wanted early polls. "The priority at this moment is to fight the rising …
D K SINGH Though the soaring rate of inflation is causing distinct uneasiness in the Congress over the extent to which it can go in pressing ahead with the Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, the party is clearly not ready to blink as yet. On a day when Congress president …
But, Reiterates Its Support For India's Bid For UNSC Seat External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee is leaving for Australia on Saturday even as a battle rages within the government on the India-US deal. And the outcome of that battle will be as keenly watched in Canberra as in Washington, because …
With aam admi in injury time, UPA could opt for extra time, avoid sudden death on N-deal So, what will happen to nuclear deal now? TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: UPA crisis managers on Friday scrambled for fresh measures to resolve the government-threatening standoff with the Left after CPM declared …
By H. K. Dua There comes a time when those who have taken upon themselves the responsibility to lead a nation or a cause have to bite the bullet and move on to achieve the desired aim. That time has come for Dr Manmohan Singh to see that the Indo-US …
PM Manmohan Singh sought to give another push to the India-US nuclear deal by telling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that efforts to operationalize the pact should not be called off even in the face of Left opposition. The PM expressed his views when Sonia met him on Wednesday morning. Singh …
R. K. Pachauri Why is a progressive nuclear initiative bringing out the worst in Indian politics? Democracy in India has taken firm roots, and earlier misgivings about coalition governments at the Centre have proved largely unjustified, as recent experience has shown. However, in one respect, Indian democracy, with and without …
Even as the Indo-US nuclear deal is stuck in what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls "domestic politics', External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is headed for uranium-rich Australia for a three-day visit beginning this Saturday. The visit, between June 21 and 24, will be important from India's nuclear point of view …
Countdown Begins: You can't go to Vienna, says Left, leaving UPA with only two options: either go for broke or give in, last a full term; next meeting June 25 What the Congress kept delaying finally happened today: its moment of reckoning has come, after the Left made it clear …
The Manmohan Singh government reckons it is make or break time for its civilian nuclear deal with the Bush administration. The bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement (the
A businessman of Indian origin was sentenced to 35 months in a US federal prison on Monday for allegedly exporting ballistic missile technology to India in a case that calls into question talk of a strategic relationship between the two countries and the salience of American nonproliferation laws. At a …
