Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
NEW DELHI: The government and the Bharatiya Janata Party seem to have conceded some ground to each other on the proposed nuclear civil liability bill in the process of trying to arrive at an agreed text.The BJP's earlier stance was that the government was paving the way to bring in …
THE Opposition on Wednesday managed to put off tabling of the NuClear Liability Bill by at least a week, but unfazed by the lack of consensus over it the government was planning to take up the legislation in the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament itself. The standing committee on science …
A parliamentary panel examining the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill hopes to finalise its report on Wednesday amid strong indications of difference of opinion with BJP members.The meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology on Tuesday was a stormy affair with members seeking a string of clarifications from …
Nistula HebbarNew Delhi: In a bid to address the concerns of countries like the US and Russia, the government has virtually removed supplier liability clause in the nuclear Bill. The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 will be tweaked so that the liability arising out of accidents will need …
New Delhi: The political positioning on civil liability for nuclear damage bill became clearer with BJP presenting what it said were fundamental objections to the proposed legislation with regard to a law when liability for a nuclear accident was to be borne by either the government or a company owned …
Missiles Moved Out Of Depot As Toll Rises To 52Moscow: A noxious smog choked Moscow on Friday as Russia moved to protect military and nuclear sites from the relentless spread of wildfires that have killed 52 people. The defence ministry ordered the evacuation of missiles from a depot outside Moscow …
New Delhi: If the dominant view in the parliamentary committee examining the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage prevails, the proposed law will be fitted with tougher clauses detailing
Swaraj Thapa The nuclear liability Bill is set to undergo significant changes. These will include increase in the timeframe for filing claims from 10 to 20 years, extending the definition of
THE preliminary work on the nuclear power plant in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district has started amid protests. Government officials who visited the site in Jasapara village on June 11 to collect soil samples were gheraoed for over six hours by angry people. The soil samples were to be collected for laboratory …
New Delhi: With the fate of civil liability for nuclear damage bill getting enmeshed with stalemated ties with Left and fresh hostilities with BJP, the government is open to defining responsibilities for a nuclear accident more closely. The government is open to inserting clauses that will cover eventualities like accidents …
The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst industrial disaster in human history. Twenty-five thousand people died, 500,000 were injured, and the injustice done to the victims of Bhopal over the past 25 years will go down as the worst case of jurisprudence ever. The gas leak in Bhopal in December …
New Delhi: The parliamentary committee studying the civil liability for nuclear damage bill will conduct a marathon four-day examination of the legislation from Tuesday with the panel expected to grill health and environment ministries on long-term liability in the event of a nuclear accident. In its deliberations, the standing committee …
Experts say Govt underplaying dangers of an accident. Nuclear power is expensive and perilous and India does not need it, said Dr Surendra Gadekar, nuclear scientist. The Union Government should give up plans to set up 15 nuclear power plants, including one at Kovvada in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, …
The gas leak at Bhopal inflicted enough injury on the victims. The injury mounted in the following decades. The killer corporation, Indian industries body, judiciary, the Government and the politicians added to that injury, by doing nothing. The worst injury came from the verdict that almost let off every culprit …
Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: With the controversial verdict on Bhopal gas tragedy exposing inadequacies of the Nuclear Liability Bill, the government is likely to raise the cap on compensation a nuclear operator will have to cough up in case of accident, to Rs 1,200 crore from Rs 500 crore proposed …
Any Indian Bill that goes beyond global conventions on supplier liability will result in denial of nuclear equipment by foreign suppliers G Balachandran / June 24, 2010, 0:13 IST In the days to come, the Standing Committee on Science and Technology will be hearing from experts in various fields about …
Seoul, June 21: Abnormal radiation was detected near the inter-Korean border days after North Korea claimed last month to have achieved a nuclear technology breakthrough, South Korea
Arjun Makhijani The bill should be amended to include an explicit provision that says there would be no operator liability cap, and that an initial payment of $20 billion (about Rs. 92,000 crores) would have to be put in escrow in a worst case accident. Before the Indian Parliament votes …
Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad The government has to maintain a balance between the amount of com- pensation and the tariff to be borne by power con- sumers. Clause 8 of the bill compels the operator to main- tain insurance or set aside financial security of Rs 500 crores so that …
