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India Ratifies Nuclear Liability Convention, Hopes To Win Foreign Investment
India ratified an international convention on nuclear energy accident liability, the government said on Thursday, the final piece in its efforts to address the concerns of foreign nuclear suppliers and draw them into a market worth billions of dollars.
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Suppliers Can't Be Sued For Accidents, Operators Can: Details of Nuclear Deal With US
The Indian government has released details of its nuclear agreement, which was sealed in meetings between India and the US, during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to India. The two countries have come to agreement on points ranging from liability in the event of mishaps to the tracking of supplied nuclear material.
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Ahead of Obama Visit, India Works for a Major Breakthrough: Report
India is offering to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to unblock billions of dollars in trade held up by concerns over exposure to risk.
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Controversy over nuclear liability law before PM's meet with Obama
The government has refuted reports that it is hunting for a route to get around a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for a nuclear disaster. The Prime Minister is meeting US President Barack Obama next month in New York. The US has been pressuring India to grant its companies greater protection from liabilities.
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Government trying to limit nuclear liability of suppliers? Who said what
The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned.The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting wi...
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Ahead of Obama meet, government's hunt to soften nuclear liability
The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned. The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting ...
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Will Nuclear Liability law deter foreign suppliers
The passage of a Nuclear Liability Bill by Parliament making suppliers of nuclear equipment also potentially liable threatens to cast a long shadow over India's plans to open an estimated $150 billion nuclear market to foreign companies.US officials are unwilling to comment publicly on the limiting liability legislation, a key piece under US law ...
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Govt trying to end regime of nuclear apartheid: PM
After months of complicated negotiation and considerable last-minute drama, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Nuclear Liability Bill, backed by a political compromise between the government and the Opposition. The Bill was tabled in the House today after hectic parleys between the government and the Opposition.The government agreed to amendment...
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Nuclear Liability Bill amendment: Tougher to nail suppliers?
Wednesday could be another stormy day in the Parliament when the government tables the N liability bill draft, this time with yet another change. The BJP has told NDTV that they will not allow it."We are very clear that the scope of 17(b) cannot be diluted. We need that to be addressed and if that is being diluted by this amendment which the govern...
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Govt proposes to dilute Nuclear Liability Bill
As the government looks at possible changes to the Nuclear Liability Bill after the outcry over the Bhopal gas verdict, NDTV has learnt that a key clause which held foreign suppliers accountable for willful negligence, and which was opposed by the Americans, has been knocked off in Tuesday's meeting of the Standing Committee.
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India Ratifies Nuclear Liability Convention, Hopes To Win Foreign Investment
India ratified an international convention on nuclear energy accident liability, the government said on Thursday, the final piece in its efforts to address the concerns of foreign nuclear suppliers and draw them into a market worth billions of dollars.
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Suppliers Can't Be Sued For Accidents, Operators Can: Details of Nuclear Deal With US
The Indian government has released details of its nuclear agreement, which was sealed in meetings between India and the US, during US President Barack Obama's recent visit to India. The two countries have come to agreement on points ranging from liability in the event of mishaps to the tracking of supplied nuclear material.
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Ahead of Obama Visit, India Works for a Major Breakthrough: Report
India is offering to set up an insurance pool to indemnify global nuclear suppliers against liability in the case of a nuclear accident, in a bid to unblock billions of dollars in trade held up by concerns over exposure to risk.
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Controversy over nuclear liability law before PM's meet with Obama
The government has refuted reports that it is hunting for a route to get around a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for a nuclear disaster. The Prime Minister is meeting US President Barack Obama next month in New York. The US has been pressuring India to grant its companies greater protection from liabilities.
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Government trying to limit nuclear liability of suppliers? Who said what
The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned.The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting wi...
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Ahead of Obama meet, government's hunt to soften nuclear liability
The government has said that it will not violate or subvert a crucial law that makes foreign suppliers liable for an accident if the nuclear equipment they provided malfunctioned. The US has been pressuring India to grants its companies greater protection from liabilities. US President Barack Obama is expected to raise this at next week's meeting ...
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Will Nuclear Liability law deter foreign suppliers
The passage of a Nuclear Liability Bill by Parliament making suppliers of nuclear equipment also potentially liable threatens to cast a long shadow over India's plans to open an estimated $150 billion nuclear market to foreign companies.US officials are unwilling to comment publicly on the limiting liability legislation, a key piece under US law ...
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Govt trying to end regime of nuclear apartheid: PM
After months of complicated negotiation and considerable last-minute drama, the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Nuclear Liability Bill, backed by a political compromise between the government and the Opposition. The Bill was tabled in the House today after hectic parleys between the government and the Opposition.The government agreed to amendment...
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Nuclear Liability Bill amendment: Tougher to nail suppliers?
Wednesday could be another stormy day in the Parliament when the government tables the N liability bill draft, this time with yet another change. The BJP has told NDTV that they will not allow it."We are very clear that the scope of 17(b) cannot be diluted. We need that to be addressed and if that is being diluted by this amendment which the govern...
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Govt proposes to dilute Nuclear Liability Bill
As the government looks at possible changes to the Nuclear Liability Bill after the outcry over the Bhopal gas verdict, NDTV has learnt that a key clause which held foreign suppliers accountable for willful negligence, and which was opposed by the Americans, has been knocked off in Tuesday's meeting of the Standing Committee.
