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Siddharth Varadarajan

Speakers recall indigenous efforts behind its commissioning

CHENNAI: M.R. Srinivasan, a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said on Wednesday that the 123 nuclear agreement between India and the U.S. provided India "an honourable entry into the international community' of nuclear countries, and asserted that those who raised doubts about the agreement had nothing to back them. "Instead of grabbing the opportunity, some of us are afraid and reluctant' to go ahead with the agreement, he said at Kalpakkam, 60 km from Chennai.

Siddharth Varadarajan

May move amendments to draft in Board meeting

New Delhi: In a four-page letter addressed to Board members of the IAEA, Pakistan has attacked the draft Indian safeguards agreement for envisaging termination conditions and fuel supply arrangements which could allow India to "divert part of [any imported] fuel for weapons purposes.'

At the same time, it said that the Indian model should not be "discriminatory' and should be applied to states such as itself.

PUTTING the nuclear deal negotiations on the fast track the US said it was planning to seek a meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group in the second week of August and send the nuclear deal to the US Congress by early September. This comes a day after Mr Manmohan Singh removed the domestic political hurdles to the deal.

Debate on nuclear deal spills into political mudslinging as parties fight to gain the edge

Pranab makes a spirited defence

Given the rumours that have repeatedly dogged Pranab Mukherjee about his commitment to the deal, or whether he was

WITHIN minutes of the luncheon meeting of what looked like a prospective third front, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat warned the Manmohan Singh government against going ahead with the Indo-US nuclear deal if it lost the trust vote on July 22.

Sandeep Dikshit

NEW DELHI: Three of the country's top nuclear scientists have said that once the nuclear deal is in place, India's commercial nuclear interaction with other countries will be "firmly controlled' by Washington through the Hyde Act enforced through the U.S. "stranglehold' on the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

Vienna, July 18: Lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal, India on Friday briefed the IAEA board of governors and some NSG countries on the safeguards agreement amid reports there was no sign of opposition to the accord.

Vienna, July 18: Lobbying for the Indo-US nuclear deal, India on Friday briefed the IAEA Board of Governors and some NSG countries on the safeguards agreement amid reports that there was no sign of opposition to the accord.

After discussing the text of the India-specific safeguards accord with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told representatives of the 54 countries that the text was a good one. Among the 35 members of the IAEA Board of Governors, 26 are also part of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).