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.
The Bads of Bollywood isn’t just about the film industry’s chaos. It’s also a show about India’s chaos: the narratives, the gatekeepers, the false morality.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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.