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In the trust vote on the nuclear deal in Parliament on July 22, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi defended it on grounds that it will help meet the nation’s electricity requirements. This is how it will be sold to the people during election time. In a more nuanced response, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that ‘Some 20 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission had laid down a target of 10,000MW of electricity generation by the end of the 20th century. Today, in 2008 our capacity is about 4,000MW and due to shortage of Uranium many of these plants are operating at much below their capacity. The nuclear agreement that we wish to negotiate will end India’s nuclear isolation, nuclear apartheid and enable us to take advantage of international trade in nuclear materials, technologies and equipment.’ The Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Anil Kakodkar explains the need for the deal
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Farnborough (United Kingdom): For a brief while on the first day it appeared that the Diamond Jubilee chapter of the Farnborough Air Show (July 14-20) has fallen victim to the combined assault of the rising fuel prices, growing environmental concerns and slumbering economies worldwide. Even though the British driver of McLaren Mercedes’ Formula One team, and the winner of the British Grand Prix revved up to 280kmph on the runway in his team car racing
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'The End-Purpose (of Intra-Operability) is a Strong Relationship Between our Air Forces; so That we are Comfortable Operating Together’.
As deputy under secretary of United States Air Force for international affairs, Bruce S. Lemkin brings multi-dimensional experience of active command of two US submarines as well as various Pentagon assignments to his present office, which requires him to provide policy oversight and guidance for international programmes supporting national more... |
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Sixty-plus years into the nation’s Independence, we find ourselves living in momentous times. Our old, familiar — even comfortable — geo-economic, geo-political and geo-strategic landscapes and landmarks are being increasingly buffeted by ferocious winds of change. Huge swathes of conventional wisdom have been, and continue to be swept away by conceptual upheavals in every sphere of individual and collective activity. It is not just that we are being forced to define our individual and collective thoughts and actions within a ‘changed framework’, but rather, that we find ourselves amidst a ‘framework-of-change’, within which we are forced to continually adapt and re-define our lives and our times with a pace that is often bewildering in its freneticism.
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Over the past year or so, we have seen the discourse on the Indo-US nuclear deal swing from high drama to dismal farce, and finally end up in sordid political horse-trading in the run-up to the July 22 trust vote in Parliament. We watched in horrified fascination, as India’s politicians reaffirmed the contempt that they have for people who vote them into power, and the complete mockery that they have made of our democracy. A banana republic could not have done worse.
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