The Left too, assuming it finds it possible to lay aside its fundamental objections (subservience to the US, infringement of India's sovereignty) to the main nuclear deal, would find little in the contents of the agreement to which it can take serious exception.
French power equipment supplier Alstom said on Thursday it will expand its manufacturing facilities in India to meet the growing demand in thermal and hydro projects and is eyeing emerging opportunities in the nuclear power sector.
India on Monday said it needs to see whether the media reports that Pakistan allowed American drone strikes on its soil under a secret deal are "authentic" or not.
Several lakh people would die within seconds of a nuclear attack on any of the country's major cities.
India on Thursday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km
Professor Roger G Bilham, who was put on a plane out of India last year for his non-establishment views on India's seismicity, tells Arthur J Pais that the new visa regulation barring scientific and journalistic work on tourist visa will affect academics
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant's personnel are continuing to service the facilities and monitor the radiation situation at the station as usual, a top Russian official claimed on Friday, a day after Russian forces took over the decommissioned facility after a fierce fight with Ukrainian soldiers guarding it.
India and the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold negotiations in New Delhi on Saturday on the proposed Safeguards Agreement.
Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered security forces to prepare for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010, but his military chief and top spy refused to follow orders, calling the move "illegal" and akin to "stealing a war".
The Tarapur Power Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Plant is among the 14 nuclear facilities to be opened by India for international safeguards under the deal with the US.
"He will not want to leave it unresolved for his successor," the sources were quoted as saying to The Times.
The Obama administration is moving ahead with a 'range of steps short of war' that it hopes will forestall an Israeli attack on Iran, while forcing Tehran to take more seriously negotiations that are all but stalemated, a media report on Monday said.
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Amid worldwide alarm over a radiation scare in Japan following the tsunami, India and other nations from the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa group on Thursday pressed for strict adherence to safety norms with regard to nuclear facilities and a proposal was floated for mutual assistance in similar incidents.
Pakistan is determined to safeguard its nuclear assets which are a guarantee of national security, Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Kidwai, who heads the organisation that safeguards the country's nuclear arsenal, said on Monday.
Indore-based Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, a Department of Atomic Energy facility, has played a major role in the supply of vital parts for Large Hadron Collider of European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
'If the Iran nuke deal holds, Iran becomes a gateway to Afghanistan, and a better one than Pakistan because the route is not so mountainous. Correspondingly, I imagine Pakistan's value to the US will fall,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
A tsunami warning has been issued in north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter.
The infamous nuclear accident devastated the lives of millions of people in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. The radioactive fallout spread over tens of thousands of square miles, driving more than a quarter of a million people permanently from their homes. It remains the world's worst nuclear disaster to date.
The military used a GBU-43 bomb -- which weighs a staggering 9,525 kg -- and the radius from the blast is believed to more than 300 metres.
India on Monday signed a key safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to allow inspection of additional civilian reactors, clearing the decks for supply of atomic fuel and technology by the international community after a 34-year-old nuke trade embargo was lifted last year.
About 4 GW of new nuclear power capacity is under construction in India
Attending the Nuclear Security Summit for the first time, Modi is expected to lay out his vision of securing nuclear weapons.
The military conflict around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine -- Europe's largest nuclear plant -- has raised fears of an accident worse than the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
The Summit would begin on the second day with the prime minister interacting with Russian and Indian CEOs.
An explosion occured at an incinerator for waste within the radiation-controlled area of an experimental nuclear plant in Tsuruga town of Fukui region, Kyodo news agency reported quoting unnamed government authorities.
India had three exploratory meetings with IAEA on the main concepts that would be embedded in an India-Specific Safeguard Agreement
We have the workforce, now we need to ensure that we take full advantage of game-changing technologies and geopolitical openings, suggests Jayant Sinha, chairman, Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance.
Zaporizhzhia power plant spokesperson Andrey Tuz said the plant has not sustained any critical damage, although only one power generation unit out of six is operational as the fire continued at the facility.
Unfurling the tricolour at various functions across the country, leaders asked youth to work towards building a new India.
Pentagon officials fear that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of this year, which would have enormous security and economic repercussions for the United States and the rest of the world, media reports said on Tuesday.The widely held view among Pentagon officials, it said, is that an Israeli attack would do only temporary damage to Iran's nuclear programme but it would cause major problems in the region and beyond, prompting a wave of attacks.
Signalling the continuity of policy, the new government has ratified the Additional Protocol, a commitment given under Indo-US nuclear deal by the previous dispensation to grant greater ease to International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor India's civilian atomic programme.
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Asked whether Senator Barack Obama would be better for Iran since he has called for a withdrawal from Iraq, Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said whosoever becomes President will have to bring about fundamental changes in US policy regarding its relations with different parts of the world, including the Middle East.
The Iranian nuclear issue, which threatens to snowball into a major issue, is also likely to figure at the two-day talks.
Officials have in the recent past expressed concern over Google Earth's display of pictures of key Indian installations.
The meeting also decided to intensify the vigil by naval warships deployed in the Indian Ocean, particularly using Airborne Early Warning aircraft.
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