Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Neena VyasNEW DELHI: There were strong indications on Monday that the government and the Bharatiya Janata Party were close to arriving at consensus on the proposed nuclear civil liability Bill.The government is
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 …
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 …
Established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), the Interagency Task Force on Radiation Source Protection and Security (Task Force) has made important progress since its 2006 report to the President and Congress to improve the security of domestic radioactive sources given the enduring threat of terrorists seeking radioactive …
This handbook is a practical aid to legislative drafting that brings together, for the first time, model texts of provisions covering all aspects of nuclear law in a consolidated form. Organized along the same lines as the Handbook on Nuclear Law, published by the IAEA in 2003, and containing updated …
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 …
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 …
This is the right time to ask the govt to rethink the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill Days after President Barack Obama lashed out at British Petroleum (BP) saying he would not let it
Siddharth Varadarajan The Nuclear Liability Bill needs to be amended to ensure adequate compensation in the event of an accident. The bill must be amended to allow for a proper level of compensation, well beyond the Rs. 2,050 crore
NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh-led government is under pressure from Washington on the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill and the proposed legislation bears the handiwork of the U.S. nuclear industry lobby. Hence it must be scrapped. This was stated by Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat in the …
Siddharth Varadarajan The legislative challenge is to ensure that Indian victims get the same degree of protection from Indian courts as U.S. victims would from their courts. As one of only two countries to run a nuclear power programme without any statute dealing with the possibility of an accident
