During the forthcoming G-20 Summit in Toronto, India and Canada are all set to sign a civil nuclear agreement. Once that is done it will ensure India supply of Uranium besides co-operation in nuclear research and development, nuclear waste management, radiation safety and environment protection.

India is fast emerging as the dumping ground of carcinogenic white asbestos whose exposure results in cancer.
Fifty per cent of this white asbestos being imported to India comes from Canada which is heavily subsidising this industry but has drastically cut down its usage in its own country.

After three days deliberations by the reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on Bhopal Gas tragedy, the CBI, which investigated the case, is likely to be asked to send a team of its officials to Hong Kong and USA for collecting certain crucial records from the Union Carbide Eastern Inc (Hong Kong) and Union Carbide Corporation plant located at West Virginia.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s advisers have asked him “keep the Gujarat chief minister, Mr Narendra Modi, away from the state and campaign”, following the riot cases pending against him.

Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, a former chemicals and fertiliser minister, says both the Congress and BJP-led governments at the centre were “non-serious in handling the Bhopal gas tragedy” and he heard one excuse after another as to why nothing could be done to give relief to the affected people or take action against then Union Carbine chief Warren Anderson.

Hitting out at Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for his move to return the aid for Kosi floods victim given by Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Tuesday said the move is just a “stunt” and has damaged the image of Bihar.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi wants party workers to pay special attention to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the mass contact programmes the Congress has launched across the country. Her directives have come at a time when the Congress is determined to improve its performance in the coming Bihar Assembly polls and return to power in Uttar Pradesh.

With uncertainty over permutations and combinations looming large ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls, leaders of political parties fear that Bihar could throw up a hung Assembly.

A crucial meeting of the BJP’s top brass began on the future of its alliance with the JD(U), in the backdrop of Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar returning the Gujarat government’s Kosi relief fund, began late on Tuesday evening. The meeting was attended by the party top brass, including BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Modi, state unit chief C.P. Thakur and Ravishankar Prasad.

India may yet again miss power capacity addition target for a Plan period as the country is likely to add around 55,000 MW of generation capacity against the targeted 62,000 MW in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12). This is mainly due to cancellation of some coal