In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Leaving Euratom treaty will shut down nuclear industry if international safety agreements are not made in time, MPs told. Nuclear power stations would be forced to shut down if a new measures are not in place when Britain quits a European atomic power treaty in 2019, an expert has warned. …
World leaders at the third Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands in March 2014 can point to measurable progress toward the goal of reducing and securing the materials needed to build a nuclear bomb. Seven more states have removed all or most of these dangerous materials from their territories since …
New Delhi : Amid reports that the government is working on not applying the supplier’s liability clause on US companies, it has emerged that the Attorney General’s opinion — the root of this concern — was sought in the Kudankulam case, where the Russians had wanted certain clarifications, and not …
New Delhi: Despite the Japanese Parliament, Diet, clearing Japan’s civil nuclear cooperation with four other countries allowing it to resume its supply of nuclear reactors, India remains uncertain about the resumption of its own negotiations for such cooperation with Tokyo. Ahead of Japanese PM Yoshihiko Noda’s visit to India on …
In its curative petition in the apex court, the govt will argue how the actual aftermath of the gas tragedy far exceeds the $470m compensation agreed to in 1989. How will the 10-year time window for claims in a nuclear incident hold up against this? Nitin Sethi | TNN The …
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 …
THE PROPOSED site for the Jaitapur nuclear park is a sight for weary eyes with blankets of lush grass covering the plateau 25 metres above sea level. The N-park will house six reactors, the biggest one having a capacity of 1,650 MW, eclipsing the largest units at Japan
TOKYO, 22 JUNE: With billions of dollars from contracts to be earned from India's ambitious nuclear power projects, Japanese government has started intra-governmental negotiations to decide whether it should ink a civilian atomic pact with New Delhi, which is yet to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Major US and …
R. Ramachandran New Delhi: In a bid to promote civil nuclear trade with other countries, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has issued new guidelines that would allow a person (or entity) in India to do nuclear commerce directly with suppliers even if there are no formal bilateral agreements for …
Manoj C G Even as the UPA government indicated its flexibility on the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill issue, the CPM and the BJP on Wednesday made it clear that they were not willing to tone down their objections to the legislation. While the BJP asked the government to withdraw the …
Washington: India and the United States have concluded a nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement to advance their bilateral civilian nuclear deal, the Obama administration announced on Monday. The agreement, a key step in the full realization of the Indo-US nuclear deal reached some 18 months ago, will enable Indian reprocessing of …
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Areva, one of the biggest reactor manufacturers of France, are finalising contracts for two 1,650 MWe-European Pressurised Reactor plants at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, by the year-end, according to French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont. Mr. Bonnafont, who was here on Wednesday to …
SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT ON FOUR-DAY VISIT TO INDIA IANS NEW DELHI/CHENNAI INDIA and South Korea will explore the possibilities of a civil nuclear pact and sign a clutch of accords in diverse areas, including IT and civilian space, when the leaders of the two countries meet here for talks Monday. …
Ever since his second term as prime minister began in May, Manmohan Singh has been out on foreign tours so often that in South Block he is now jocularly known as the 'Flying Sikh'--a sobriquet reserved for India's most famous athlete of the 1960s. In June, Manmohan was in the …
Mumbai: The process to build the first nuclear power plants at a cost of Rs33,000 crore after India's re-entry into global nuclear trade will be set into motion with the beginning of land acquisition tomorrow at Jaitapur in coastal Maharashtra. French company Areva will be setting up the 1650 MW …
A global shift toward nuclear power is prompting countries to rush to lock in long-term access to tight supplies of uranium, and China and India look to be the next players to get in on the action. A tie-up between Rosatom, the Russian state-owned producer, Rosatom and Canada-based miner Uranium …
When the 2004 elections resulted in victory for the Congress Party and its allies, Sonia Gandhi could have become Prime Minister. However, she declined and bequeathed the highest position to Dr. Manmohan Singh. By rising above the craving for power and position that exists in politics, she showed that her …
