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.
With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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.