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 …
THE world must go back to embracing nuclear power as one of its options if it is going to win the fight against global warming, economist Jeffrey Sachs warns. Professor Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty, warned that global warming …
Prabir Purkayastha A close analysis of the draft India-IAEA safeguards agreement, and the restricted document GOV/1621, reveals that if it comes to the crunch, it is the provisions of the Hyde Act that will prevail. This is what is inbuilt in the agreement, the government's spin notwithstanding. Various commentators have …
Jairam Ramesh confident of UPA government winning trust vote TIRUCHI: Exuding confidence that the UPA government would win the trust vote over the nuclear deal issue, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday that the country intended to generate 20,000 MW of nuclear power …
R. Ramachandran A temporary shortage has arisen because of a supply-demand mismatch. Why resort to imports through an undesirable deal? The need to meet uranium shortage through imports is one of the arguments advanced by the proponents of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. In a recent interview to a TV channel, …
Echoes assurances given by PM to House; clears right to strategic fuel reserve New Delhi, July 10: Two days after it lost the support of its key allies from the Left on this very issue, the government today finally took the lid off the safeguards agreement it's negotiating with the …
NEW DELHI: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Wednesday said the Indo-U.S. nuclear civil cooperation deal was very much in the interest of the country as rising energy prices of fossil fuel had made it mandatory to tap other sources of energy in order to meet the …
Siddharth Varadarajan The government feels vagueness keeps international critics at bay. Following the formal withdrawal of Left support to the United Progressive Alliance, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its three partners have issued a statement challenging the government's decision to keep the text of the safeguards agreement negotiated …
Mounting possibly his strongest defence yet of the Indo-US nuclear co-operation agreement, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar on Wednesday said India was negotiating the pact from a position of strength and called attempts to isolate the country's nuclear programme from the world "foolish'. Armed with a brief powerpoint presentation …
K. Venugopal ASIAN GIANTS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao arrive for the G5 meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Sapporo, Japan, on Tuesday. Sapporo: On a day when the Left parties announced the withdrawal of support to the government over the nuclear deal, …
Decades of investment in civilian nuclear power puts france in the energy catbird seat. France ranks 10th in the EPI because of its supply of clean energy. Being poor in oil and coal might once have been considered a disadvantage, but not for France. Forty years ago necessity led Charles …
The Manmohan-Bush summit in the sidelines of the G8 summit in Hokkaido is expected to work out a tentative plan of action for the next two stages, of the nuclear deal
Even as the Indian government seemed set to move ahead with the stalled nuclear deal with the US, a top American daily has underlined there was no reason for Bush administration to rush as it had given away too much and got far too little. President George Bush, who was
The next act in the nuclear-deal drama will unfold after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with President George Bush in a pre-breakfast meeting on July 9 on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan. That's when he is expected to team up with Bush to run the last …
K. Venugopal "Once we decide, the U.S. will have to fulfil its promises' Sapporo (JAPAN): Hinting that the government was ready to take the next step on the nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that he expects to rally international support from countries, including China and Australia, when he …
Power from nuclear energy is a failed project in developed countries and the eagerness of the Prime Minister to clinch the Deal fails to generate any enthusiasm among the common people of India, opines Dr Sandeep Pandey Amidst protests against price rises of essential items throughout the country, the Prime …
HK. DUA's front-page editorial, "India must not go back on nuclear deal' (June 20) gives a pertinent account of India's potential to acquire some degree of parity in the world's nuclear power club with uranium and high technology on terms honourable for it. The Left's reservations on the deal are …
Manmohan's Envoy Saran Says He's Optimistic About N-Deal Clearing NSG Hurdle TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: It's finally out in the open. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will indeed go to the G8 summit in Japan on July 7. This first official confirmation of the PM's visit came from none other …
THE Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demonstrated its clout with the UPA government when it got the PMO to address its apprehensions on the Indo-US nuclear deal. The party's concerns on the issue were conveyed to NSA M K Narayanan when he came calling on the SP leadership here on Wednesday …
