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In a possible way around the practical hurdles posed by the supplier liability clause in the civil nuclear liability law, the government is all set to make it clear in the rules and regulations of the law that a supplier will be liable only for a fixed time period and not for the entire lifetime of a reactor.
Also, it may be allowed to cap the quantity of compensation.
Almost all negotiations fo

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A doctor would have recognised the signs of chronic malnutrition immediately in the seven-month-old girl, the swollen stomach, the constant cough. Her mother, though, had only traditional healers to turn to in her Yemeni mountain village, and they told her to stop feeding the girl.

The mother's feed had spoiled, they said.

Ahead of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

MUMBAI: In a sheer coincidence, two reactors at BARC in Trombay, which have played a key role in India's nuclear weapon programme, will celebrate their anniversaries-one golden and the other silver- on Saturday.

The 40 mw Indo-Canadian Cirus reactor went critical on July 10, 1960, and the 100 mw Dhruva reactor started functioning on August 8, 1985.

Pune Scientist's at the High Energy Material Research Laboratory (HEMRL) in Pune have indigenously developed the most powerful non-nuclear explosive in the world.

India and France are expected to sign agreements on civil nuclear cooperation, space and culture during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrives Saturday. No defence deals are expected to be signed, officials said here Wednesday.

Sarkozy will be accompanied by his top cabinet ministers, including ministers of defence, external affairs, environment and education.

Moscow, Dec.

HAND-IN-HAND: U.S. President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a joint news conference at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday.

New Delhi: The United States has become the first nuclear weapons state (NWS) as defined by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to endorse the idea of talks between the five NWSs and the three nuclear-armed nations outside the NPT, i.e.

Iran said that it is ready to resume talks with the West about its nuclear programme in November, officials at the European Union said here on Friday.

In a two-paragraph letter to the bloc

New Delhi: India will sign the international agreement on nuclear damages, the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC) for Nuclear Damage, on Wednesday.

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