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 …
EXTERNAL affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday told his American hosts that the government was engaged in the process of resolving the "political problems' in the implementation of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The two sides, which resolved to work for the operationalisation of the agreement, discussed the progress in the …
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh was perhaps targeting the in-house critics of the Indo-US nuclear deal when he said that the government is "committed' to developing civilian nuclear energy at a function for a power project in the Capital His remarks are also perfectly timed with the visit of external affairs …
The government's assurance to Left leaders that all apprehensions raised by the latter regarding the nuclear deal had been taken care of failed to move the Left to ratchet down its opposition to the civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement with the US. In fact, the government too, despite the need …
Extending the support of the environmentalists to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, which is in a limbo because of opposition from the Left parties, Nobel Laureate RK Pachauri today said not going ahead with the deal would be a mistake. Pachauri, whose UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change received the …
India's zeal for reactor imports needs to be tempered by the fact that more than half a century after U.S. Atomic Energy Agency Chairman Lewis Strauss claimed that nuclear energy would become "too cheap to meter,' the nuclear-power industry everywhere subsists on generous state support and shows the slowest rate …
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy interacts with students from Kozhikode, who are on an indefinite hunger strike against the India-U.S. nuclear deal in New Delhi on Saturday. Writer and human rights activist Arundhati Roy on Saturday extended her support to a group of students from Kozhikode who have been sitting …
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to leave here on Monday on a six-day visit to India with a Congressional delegation. The team will visit Delhi, Dharamshala, Agra and Mumbai. The four-leg tour will primarily focus on the Ms. Pelosi's favourite subject of renewable …
The Government of India is "committed' to the civilian nuclear deal with the U.S., Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen said here. But New Delhi was bound only by the bilateral 123 Agreement. His comments come ahead of the crucial March 17 United Progressive Alliance-Left committee meeting in the context of an …
With foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee's comments ruling out differences with Left over the India-US nuclear deal reaching a flashpoint and tensions between the two sides abating, a meeting of the UPA-Left panel on the deal is likely to take place on March 17. The meeting now is not likely to …
India aspires for a non-violent, atomic weapons-free world and believes that the international community should conclude "universal, non-discriminatory and verifiable prohibitions on nuclear weapons' leading to their complete elimination, Vice-President Hamid Ansari said here on Sunday. Inaugurating the 18th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War …
A controversial nuclear club is taking shape. The UK has signed up to the Bush administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences. The UK joins several other recent recruits, including Canada, Senegal and South …
Real problem is the Hyde Act and the bilateral 123 Agreement: CPI(M) Says the future of UPA government depends on the decision that it takes "Assurance of uninterrupted fuel supply is outside IAEA's jurisdiction' NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday cautioned the government that it was …
THE confrontation between the UPA and the Left over the Indo-US nuclear deal has entered the most crucial phase with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing his government's resolve to go ahead with the deal in Parliament and the Left seeking a meeting of the UPA-Left mechanism for discussing the contents …
B.P. Jeevan Reddy If the government ignores the will of Parliament and proceeds to finalise the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, it would mean the executive is asserting its supremacy over Parliament
The Indo-US nuclear deal is in focus these days. The Government must call Left's bluff and the Right's circumlocution. The Left is more worried about China's interests than that of India and the Right is opposing the deal for the sake of opposition. In fact the Right when in power …
"The Act is a domestic legislation and the 123 is an international accord' Centre concedes presence of some "prescriptive and extraneous' elements in the Hyde Act Pranab says India's rights and obligation arise only from the 123 Agreement agreed upon NEW DELHI: The United States has said the Hyde Act …
In voting for the further tightening of international sanctions against Iran despite the satisfactory resolution of all concrete issues surrounding its previous nuclear activities, the United Nations Security Council has wilfully and unnecessarily escalated a crisis that was heading towards a peaceful end. When Iran's nuclear file was sent to …
If the Security Council were truly concerned about Iran's nuclear programme, it would have lifted sanctions in the light of the IAEA's latest report and thereby secured Iranian adherence to the Additional Protocol. On Monday evening, the United Nations Security Council voted 14-0 with one abstention to impose a fresh …
India's efforts to firm up a safeguards agreement with the IAEA have a moved a decisive step forward with the agency today for the first time giving a firm statement that both sides were "close to a final text', indicating that only a few minor issues now remained before the …
