The new nuclear bargain means different things to different people, both here and in the United States — a case of the elephant and the blind men!
Dire consequences to our national security are forecast by our strategic community because we would have access to nuclear power trade and international cooperation.
So the first [...]

Instead of coming out clean on the text of the agreement by making it public, both India and the US in collusion have chosen to keep it under wraps and are selectively issuing rosy statements that all is well and all our concerns have been fully addressed.
While one wishes it is really satisfactory, it is [...]

Amidst lots of recent controversies over Indo-US nuke deal, here are some points which could have nuke deal as positive fallout. India, specifically India’s people and India’s businesses had the most to gain from the US-India nuclear agreement. The fact that this is not self-evident to many Indians speaks volumes about the trust deficit remaining [...]

Following are the key aspects of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal:
* The agreement not to hinder or interfere with India’s nuclear programme for military purposes.
* US will help India negotiate with the IAEA for an India-specific fuel supply agreement.
* Washington will support New Delhi develop strategic reserves of nuclear fuel to [...]

I am delighted to join Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Steinmeier and other distinguished participants at this international conference. I am grateful to the governments of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for organising this timely event to address the critical issue of assurance of supply of nuclear fuel.
Since the dawn of the nuclear age [...]

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an international organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. Though established independently of the United Nations under its own international treaty (the IAEA Statute), the IAEA reports to both the General Assembly and the Security Council.
The [...]

The U.S. and Europe have caught the inflation blues, but emerging economies have a full-blown case of inflation fever.
Global inflation is set to rise from 3.5% to 5.8% this year, the highest in nine years, says Merrill Lynch. Nearly two-thirds of the increase will come from emerging markets.
Bourses have been hit hard in developing countries [...]

India’s days of more than nine per cent economic growth are over and the country has lost the opportunity to sustain those levels as well, believes global financial services major Citigroup.
“…the days of 9 per cent plus growth are over and we believe that India has lost the opportunity to sustain those levels [...]

The international community urgently needs to take counter measures to head off “globalization without social justice,” according to the head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO).“Globalization without social justice… is generating growth without enough quality jobs…a steady increase in productivity, but not in wages… advances in combating extreme poverty, but deepening inequality,” Juan [...]