Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada will arrive in New Delhi on Saturday for the fourth strategic dialogue with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna.
NEW DELHI, 20 AUG: Bowing to pressure from the BJP and the Left parties, the government today dropped a controversial addition in the civil nuclear liability Bill which the Opposition said diluted the liability of suppliers for accidents caused by their negligence.
The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Dr Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, put its stamp of approval on the Civil Liability for N
New Delhi: The government has ensured safe passage for the bill on civil liability for nuclear damage after sealing a deal with BJP on Tuesday by agreeing to a guarantee against private firms running power plants and bumping up the
THE UPA government has secured the support of BJP for the nuclear liability bill after it made concessions which, among other things, include shutting out private players from the nuclear sector.
This represents a setback for Indian private companies that are keen to enter nuclear power equipment business.
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill is expected to finalize its report on Tuesday even as there appears to have been little headway in negotiations between government and the Left and BJP over the proposed legislation.
New Delhi: With UPA-2 under intense pressure to ensure the passage of a civil nuclear liability law, the BJP on Wednesday asked the government to come clean on why it wanted to push through the proposed legislation ahead of US president Barack Obama
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 and technology, which is scrutinising the legislation, was to finalise
New Delhi: The parliamentary standing committee examining the civil liability for nuclear damage bill on Tuesday heard representatives of the Department of Atomic Energy offer their views on the Convention of Supplementary Compensation.
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 by it.
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
