A statement issued after external affairs minister S.M. Krishna’s talks with his Dutch counterpart Uri Rosenthal in New Delhi on Tuesday was silent on the new Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) guidelines limiting the sale of sensitive enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technologies to NPT signatories only. However, the issue was

Access to sensitive nuclear technologies used for the enrichment of uranium or the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel just got tougher with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) approving new guidelines to limit their transfers only to countries complying with their non-proliferation obligations and that meet agreed standards for nuclear safeguards, safety and security.

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has sought a meeting with Burmese pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, but New Delhi would not confirm on Sunday whether its request has been accepted.

India has not felt the need for a bilateral river waters sharing agreement with China similar to the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a government source said, implying that the present arrangement is adequate.

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares to visit Australia in October 2011, an Australian foreign policy analyst and the deputy leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament, alike, have argued that the Labour government’s refusal to sell uranium to India cannot be sustained for long.

India abstained in Thursday’s vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which decided to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over its alleged covert nuclear programme.

German Chance-llor Angela Merkel’s visit to India made headlines even before her aircraft landed in New Delhi Tuesday morning. Iran first refused permission to the Airbus A-340 “Konrad Adenauer”, Germany’s equivalent of the United States’ Air Force One, to fly in its airspace but later relented, delaying her arrival in New Delhi by two hours.

A “national consensus across the board” was required on whether China is “a threat or is [it] a neighbour that we can go along with”, former national security adviser M.K.

India omitted any reference to a contentious United Nations (UN)-mandated experts’ panel in the joint press statement issued towards the end of Sri Lankan foreign minister G.L. Peiris’ visit to New Delhi, which should be seen as in keeping with its policy lately of treating Colombo with kid gloves.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Kabul Thursday in what will be his first visit to Afghanistan since August 2005. His visit can be expected to deliver “a lot of tangibles”, a government source said, without elaborating. He will likely tell Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai that India’s assistance to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development was not contingent on presence and absence of foreign troops, and that India was in it for the long haul.