Known as the ‘father of the Indian nuclear programme’, Dr Homi J. Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909. ThePrint remembers him on his 109th birth anniversary.
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India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
As a lay person, one thought the clean, one time waiver allowed India to buy fuel and other nuclear material for its civilian power programme, which is completely under international safeguards. Membership of the NSG is more in the nature of a prestige issue, for which we have expended a lot of diplomatic capital. Exclusion from the group would impair our ability to prevent future changes of rules, to our detriment. However, India has too many friends in the 48 member NSG for that to be a major concern. The economics of nuclear power, coupled with safety issues after Fukushima, make this yesterday’s energy source.
As a lay person, one thought the clean, one time waiver allowed India to buy fuel and other nuclear material for its civilian power programme, which is completely under international safeguards. Membership of the NSG is more in the nature of a prestige issue, for which we have expended a lot of diplomatic capital. Exclusion from the group would impair our ability to prevent future changes of rules, to our detriment. However, India has too many friends in the 48 member NSG for that to be a major concern. The economics of nuclear power, coupled with safety issues after Fukushima, make this yesterday’s energy source.