"It is a mistake on the part of India to have voted against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting," Jaya said.
It is not Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram on one side and we on the other. People of the country also has a say," Bardhan said.
Bolton, who is the chief US envoy to the United Nations, said involving the Security Council will not displace the IAEA, but will "strengthen the hand" of the agency in dealing with Iran.
As India's negotiation with International Atomic Energy Agency is in its concluding stage, the Communist Party of India on Wednesday said the Left parties are determined not to allow the government to go ahead with the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
While 33 per cent Indians favour building new plants, 23 per cent would like the existing ones to continue and are against building new ones.
President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear on many occasions that whatever information is required will be provided through the government of Pakistan.
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India has agreed to separate its nuclear and military facilities, which would take time and the US has to change domestic laws to resume nuclear supplies to Indian reactors.
Rejecting the opposition charge that the government succumbed to American pressure, Mukherjee said India's vote was in 'conformity' with the country's policy.
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Diplomats inside the meeting said, however, that only 22 of the 35 board nations voted for the United States-backed European Union motion, reflecting the divisions over the referral
It is a theoretical proposition in the future, contingent on dismantling having taken place, realigning up to the NPT and having IAEA safeguards in place
North Korea on Monday pledged to give up nuclear weapons and nuclear programs and also return to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and submit to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
A day after the promoters of Adani Group prepaid $1.1 billion loans, one of the group's listed entities - Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) - announced that it would prepay loans of up to Rs 5,000 crore by next month-end so as to improve its financial metrics. The company is targeting an earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of around Rs 15,000 crore this financial year. This was revealed by Karan Adani, chief executive officer (CEO) and whole-time director of APSEZ, while announcing the September-December 2022 results.
The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on Thursday trained its guns on the Adani Group, alleging hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in publicly traded group stocks through Mauritius-based 'opaque' investment funds managed by partners of promoter family, charges the conglomerate denied vehemently.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to reply to the debate on the Iran issue in both Houses of Parliament Monday.
The meeting came two days ahead of a debate in Parliament on India's stand over the Iran nuclear programme.
The remarks came as Left parties asked the Union government to have David C Mulford recalled while Opposition BJP sought an all-party meet over the controversial remarks by the US Ambassador to India on the Iran issue.
Govt 'will have to repent' if India repeated the vote against Iran, the Left parties said.
The international community must focus not only on recipient states but on supplier states as well, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said.
"This work could not be the work of Khan alone," Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohammed El Baradei said.
However, the Left parties were unconvinced and said that the government gave the impression of being totally aligned with the United States, thus violating the common minimum programme's pursuit of an independent foreign policy.
The CPI(M) has said that India has caved in to US pressure.
The Indian Space Research Organisation said it successfully carried out an "extremely challenging" controlled re-entry experiment of the decommissioned orbiting Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1) satellite.
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