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.
PM must give a final push to nuclear deal There are media reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a last effort to rescue the nuclear deal from limbo and call an all-party conference to seek the understanding and support of political leaders. If this report is correct, it is a welcome move and he ought to have done it much earlier. Now he has only a very narrow window of opportunity to get the deal through while President George Bush is in office. There is no doubt that a deal on such favourable terms is extremely unlikely with any other US administration.
the rusting fleet of decommissioned nuclear submarines in Russia may pose serious threats to the environment, say environmentalists and military experts. "The danger of nuclear waste remains
A set of India-related diplomatic cables on the Indo-US nuclear deal released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, claims that an aide of Congress leader Satish Sharma had told a US diplomat that the party had paid crores to several lawmakers to ensure that they voted for the deal in Parliament.
Taking the first concrete step on setting up two more China-supplied nuclear reactors in the Chashma nuclear complex, Pakistan has obtained the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board for the safeguards agreement to cover the two new reactors, Chashma 3 and 4.
The approval was obtained in the ongoing IAEA board meeting at Vienna.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday advocated the process of making nuclear power available to developing nations for peaceful purposes.
Mr Amano was in Mumbai to address the 21st annual meeting of the Indian Nuclear Society in Kharghar.
