India is making its presence felt throughout the world, almost literally. The country is all set to open two new consulates in the United States, in the cities of Seattle and Atlanta. The announcement regarding the same was made by foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon on Thursday, 25th September ...

US Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared the Indo-US nuclear deal on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 by a 19-2 margin. This development has taken place at a time when the Indian Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is about to reach New York.
 
This clearance by US senate now has ...

With the approval of nuclear waiver by NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) India has finally come out of the 34-year old nuclear apartheid. Also, the approval has stopped all the speculations and reservations in the eyes of some NSG member states about India's nuclear deal and India's nuclear program. ...

The Washington Post newspaper reported on Wednesday, August 3, that the Bush administration told the US Congress in a secret communication in January 2008 that it will immediately end nuclear trade should india test again and not sell New Delhi sensitive enrichment and reprocessing technologies. ...

In an interview to Forbes magazine, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed that Indo-US nuke deal will strengthen bilateral relationship. She said that the conclusion of the Indo-US nuke deal would be a milestone in bilateral ties, and will push the relationship to the next level. ...

To include the NSG members' perspective  in Indo-US nuke deal, India and USA are working on revised text. Talking to journalists en route to Israel on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the said that US's principal focus right now is on the India civil nuclear ...

Vienna meeting of NSG (Nuclear Supplier's Group) could not reach to any agreeable point, but SS Menon does not seem bothered with that, and has kept his diplomatic visit continue. Soon after the NSG meeting at Vienna, he left for US to meet US Undersecretary of State William Burns. Interestingly, ...

India has decided to agree with NSG waiver which contains certain commitments on non-proliferation and testing from India. India, which earlier had wanted a simple waiver, now has compromised and agreed to go with the US draft ‘India-US July 18, 2005’ wherein commitments on ...

Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) diplomats have shown their concern on the issue of supplying nuclear fuel to India without putting additional restrictions. Earlier, diplomats from several nuclear-exporting countries were critical on the issue of the US move to seek no additional conditions in ...

CAG which has been vehemently accusing Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat for his role in post-Godhra riots in the year 2002, now has asked US legislators to ban the entry of Modi in US land. Progressing towards its goal this Indo-US coalition of organizations has claimed that it has ...

After much contemplation on “Indian concerns”, US on Thursday spread a draft exemption text to Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members minus offending paragraph. It was a joint effort of India and US in the high level negotiating group, which involved national security advisor MK Narayan, ...

When both India, and US are hopeful for nod from NSG, there is a group of member states inside NSG which is totally against proliferation of nukes, and which accordingly may oppose any waiver given to India. Evidently, there would be a need of consensus for any waiver to India which implies that ...

Talking with a private news channel India Atomic Energy Program (IAEP) Director Dr Anil Kakodkar has said that there would not be any compromise in dealing with NSG. At the same time he expected goodwill from US in NSG-India dialogue on the issue. Talking about India specific safeguards ...

Three countries, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria have strong reservations on Indo-US nuke deal and not accommodative towards it. More importantly, it is important for India to earn the confidence of all the member states of IAEA. And, these three countries are crucial in that ...

As was expected, Pakistan has circulated a letter which says that Indo-US nuke deal would trigger arms race in sub-continent. On the other hand India’s reaction was mild and one official in External Affairs said that Pakistani response was in a way predictable, but also a little ...

Although India’s foreign minister Pranab Mukharjee ruled out the time line of nuclear deal, he showed positive indication towards NSG’s positive response on India’s nuke deal with US. The minister said that it is difficult to give the exact time frame, but hoped that India will ...

The issue of Indo-US nuclear deal between India and the United States has elicited varied reactions from different quarters in India as well as abroad. The Indo-US nuclear deal has now put a question mark on the survival of the UPA government. Here is an overview of the deal and its ...

Indo-US nuclear deal which is already in doldrums has not yet been approved by IAEA. IAEA, the world body responsible for regulation of nuke deals world over has decided to meet on 1st August to discuss the issue and give its approval for the same. India has already said that it needs Indo-US civil ...

The newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd left for his first official visit to Japan on Sunday 8 June, which should probably drown away his critics’ complaint that he had taken too long to travel to the major Asian power. A spokesperson informed that the Australian PM, who got ...

The neuclear deal between India and the USA is headed towards a temporary disguise. This is among the most highly kept secrets and was provided by the Government middle-man at a meeting of the UPA-Left co-ordination panel that was held on Tuesday.
Acording to the sources, the External Affairs ...

After the United States President George W Bush recently blamed India and China for the globally rising prices of commodities now comes another accusation in which the US has partially held responsible the increased demand in India and China as the cause for a surge in oil futures. Commenting on ...

Indian government, reacting to the comments of the US President George Bush that India\'s prosperity is the reason behind the global food crisis, said that India can teach the US to sustain a biofuel programme without actually causing any kind of food crisis globally. India has already taken into ...

The USA on Thursday said that it is hopeful that the Indo-US civil nuclear deal will come through during the administration of President George W Bush. It also said that USA\'s relationship with India doesn\'t stand on a single issue. Under Secretary for International Affairs in the US Treasury ...

Speaking at the first International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) – Citi India Global Forum in New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, former US Ambassador to India remarked that the future American President might not take keen interest in the Indo-US nuke deal. The former Ambassador said that ...