"A Biden administration will be mostly positive for India," said Rick Rossow from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank. "I expect most positive areas of cooperation -- notably defence -- to be maintained," he said.
'The US motivations are far from clear, but there is a balance of rights and obligations in the Indo-US deal.'
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was close to finalising the text of India-specific safeguards but the ball is now in India's court to ready the agreement. Sources at IAEA said both sides are close to a final text but India has to confirm to the IAEA that there is an agreement on the text. Until then the agreement can not got forward.
The prime minister will address each House of Parliament on Friday.
India's stand was regrettable and not in conformity with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy.\n\n
"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.
The ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict has disrupted India's efforts to gain from a recent fall in crude oil prices. Since Hamas' invasion of southern Israel on October 7, petroleum has become costlier by around $5 per barrel, threatening to stoke prices and impact growth. Brent crude was trading at $89.8 per barrel on October 9 (9.15 pm IST), up over 4 per cent, thwarting India's anticipation of a period of declining oil prices - after the leading global petroleum benchmark declined by around 11 per cent last week.
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.
Talks on for "acceptable compromise" on Iran N-issue: India
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.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to file by Friday its affidavit in response to a petition of Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot, seeking to quash an FIR registered in a bank loan fraud case, to declare his arrest as "arbitrary and illegal" and to be released on bail. When the plea came up for hearing, advocate Kuldeep Patil asked for one-week time to seek instructions on the same. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and P K Chavan said the agency shall file its affidavit by Friday and posted the petition for hearing the same day (January 13).
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.
A few years ago, when top officials of Indian state-run refiners went to Dubai to negotiate a crude oil supply contract, a senior official from state-owned Saudi Aramco told them, "We can negotiate on anything, but I am the last man standing for you. "Nobody can offer the range of crudes we do with certainty," an official who was part of the negotiating team recalls. Perhaps that explains why Saudi Arabia is less concerned about losing its place as India's premier oil supplier to an upstart like Russia, which emerged from nowhere to become India's biggest crude oil supplier in September and October.
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.
