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 …
Indian intransigence at WTO negotiations irked New Zealand to the extent that it became a trenchant critic of the Indo-US nuclear deal, suggests a WikiLeaks cable. The international whistleblower has documents from the US embassy in New Zealand suggesting that quite apart from the country’s non-proliferation concerns, disarmament minister Phil …
Citing its growth and huge energy requirements, India today pressed Australia to reverse the policy of not selling uranium to it, even as authorities here insisted they would not budge from their stand on the issue. External affairs minister Mr SM Krishna, who is here on a three-day visit, met …
THE government of India barred a group of nuclear scientists from holding their annual meeting in India. Union Ministry of External Affairs refused permission to the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) to hold its meeting scheduled for December 9, terming its views “hostile to India”. IPFM is an independent …
Marking a significant shift, India for the first time voted today in favour of a proposal at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board to create a fuel bank that has an eligibility condition so far associated only with signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power program and expects to have 20,000 MWe nuclear capacity on line by 2020 and 63,000 MWe by 2032. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050. Because India is outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to its …
HAND-IN-HAND: U.S. President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint news conference at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday. New Delhi: The United States has become the first nuclear weapons state (NWS) as defined by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to endorse the idea of talks …
Bringing to bear his political weight amid, so far, unsuccessful efforts at the official level to bridge differences on a range of critical issues, US President Barack Obama is learnt to have written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveying America
With Japan playing hard ball in the negotiations on the civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he would not "force" it on Tokyo as he recognises its sensitivity on the subject. However, Dr Singh, who is here on a two-day visit, said he would like Japanese …
This paper argues that the limit of conventional non-proliferation policy analysis is marked by the inability to come to terms with the ambivalence of nuclear power. Ambivalence is often glossed over in the literature as
WASHINGTON, 5 OCT: American companies are unlikely to engage in nuclear trade with India till it becomes a signatory to an international convention on nuclear damage that among its provisions puts the onus of compensation on the state in case of an accident, a Congressional report has said. “US firms …
In what is being seen as a counter to the India-US nuclear deal, China has taken the next significant step on the sale of two nuclear reactors, Chashma 3 & 4, to Pakistan by officially communicating to the IAEA on Tuesday that it intends to go ahead with the deal …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: The announcement from China's biggest nuclear power firm that it was in talks to set up a one-gigawatt plant in Pakistan underscores the rising overseas ambitions of China's nuclear power industry, say analysts. Following an unprecedented expansion since 2005, and with more than 28 power reactors slated …
Manoj C G With the BJP not willing to budge on the civil nuclear liability Bill, the government on Tuesday indicated to opposition leaders that it was willing to revise the official amendment proposed in clause 17 — that deals with supplier liability and the right of recourse of the …
New Delhi: Amid indications that the government may amend the nuclear liability bill yet again to accommodate the opposition’s protest against dilution of the clause dealing with supplier liability, industry on Tuesday mounted a campaign warning that the toughening of the very same provisions could scare away suppliers —both Indian …
