Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Stark failure on the N-liability issue by Inder Malhotra THE fiasco of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill, which the United Progressive Alliance government withdrew just before it was scheduled to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday, is not the first instance of its kind nor is going to …
Officials in the atomic energy establishment have expressed the apprehension that the delay in the nuclear liability bill is almost certain to derail the schedule of setting up new nuclear power plants in the country. India has given approvals for new nuclear power plants at five different sites, which are …
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 …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to be using the same tactic that he used for pushing the Indo-US nuclear deal for crossing the hump on the civil nuclear liability bill
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will again try to convince the Opposition to support the contentious Civil Nuclear Liability Bill with the intent to introduce it in the second half of the Budget session (April-May). Sources in the Prime Minister
Isolated over the civil nuclear liability bill, the government was forced to back off in the Lok Sabha on Monday when it decided to defer introducing the legislation in the face of spirited opposition from the Left and BJP, who were prepared to call a division on the legislation. Wary …
New Delhi: A crucial bill that provides for compensation in case of a nuclear accident is slated to be introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday, a move that is expected to give more fodder to the Opposition to attack the government. BJP and Left parties have already indicated opposition to …
New Delhi: More than a dozen agreements, including an umbrella civil nuclear pact and another on the Gorshkov aircraft carrier, are likely to be signed between India and Russia tomorrow during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
land acquisition hurdles, Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) remains serious about executing the 6,000-mw civilian nuke power project in Haripur in West Bengal. So much so, it has internally lined up a more generous rehab-cum-resettlement plan for potential landlosers likely to be displaced by the mega project. Details …
There's far too much to be said against Nuclear Liability Bill Twenty-five years ago, thousands of Bhopal residents fell victim to a gas leak from a local Union Carbide plant. Five years later, the Supreme Court put its imprimatur on a deal between Carbide, the government and others, setting Carbide
Friends-Turned-Foes Queer The Pitch; Main Opposition Wants Bill To Resemble Price Anderson Act Amita Shah & Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI THE Congress may be celebrating its success in passing the women
NEW DELHI: The much-debated nuclear liability bill, critical to participation of US firms in atomic commerce with India, seems headed for the standing committee on energy with contradictions emerging over liabilities that will be incurred by state operators and foreign firms in case of a mishap. While government is keen …
A Bill to provide for civil liability for nuclear damage, appointment of claims Commissioner, establishment of Nuclear Damage Claims Commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental there of. This Act may be called the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2009.
Visakhapatnam, March 8: The north coastal Andhra would soon becoming the epicentre of power projects with as many as 17 projects in private sector and a nuclear power project in the public sector, generating 19,000 mega watts in the next couple of years. The proposed nuclear power project in Srikakulam …
SRIDHAR KUMARASWAMI India proposes to establish five nuclear "energy parks" in its coastal states and is in talks with the United States, France and Russia for technical collaboration, the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, Mr Srikumar Banerjee, said on Monday in Paris. The chairman and managing director of the …
Even as international nuclear power producers keenly watch the fate of the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill in India, as many as 62 countries eager to launch or expand their nuclear energy programmes assemble in Paris next week to explore the possibility of bilateral and multilateral cooperation in this sector. France, …
There is a way of returning to nuclear while overcoming safety and waste concerns: hybrid nuclear fusion. The concept has been around for decades, and has been discussed in the technical literature and at the International Atomic Energy Agency. But it has not yet been explained to governments, industry, researchers …
Research institutions should strive for commercial productions of carbon nano tubes (CNT). These will bear a huge impact in ensuring energy independence for the country INDIA has to go for nuclear power gen- eration in a big way using thorium- based reactors, former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam …
