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Incidents and Events of the year 2008 for India!

If you're new here, and interested in the latest news and insights on news from India and world, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting I News India. The year 2009 has arrived and when we will look behind to the year 2008, we will find these as the main events of the year 2009 for India. First One: Nuclear Deal. Indo-US Nuclear Deal has for the first time proved that national welfare has more value than the political selfishness. Prime Minister Manmohan...
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IAEA nods India for nuke deal!

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has nodded the safeguards agreement with India on Friday making a way clear for the operation of the crucial Indo-US nuke deal. Passed by the 35-nation IAEA board unanimously, India will now proceed to the 45 member Nuclear Suppliers Group for a nod to allowing trade with a non-NPT country, followed by ratification from the US Congress, to finalize the deal. Earlier in the day, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei had given...
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Pak wants India-like N-deal with US!

Pakistan has demanded N-deal with US similar to that of Indo-US deal. Ahead of the IAEA meeting on Friday, Pak PM Yousaf Raza Gilani, while his visit to US, has said that he also expects an India-like civil nuclear deal from the US. At a gathering under the aegis of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Middle East Institute, Gilani added, "there should be no preferential, there should be no discrimination. If they want to give such nuclear status to India, we expect the same for...
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N-deal critical for India and US: Bush!

The US president George W Bush said that the Indo-US deal is important for both the countries and heaped praise on Indian PM "for his leadership at home" while talking to the PM, Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. Amid the unrest in Indian political parties due to the Indo-US deal, the confident Prime Minister met Bush in Hotel Windsor on Mount Poromoi on the sidelines of the G-8 summit; hours before the Left parties would be withdrawing support on the nuclear deal. Both the leaders expressed...
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Govt will seek trust vote before approaching IAEA: Pranab Mukherjee!

A few hours after the Left parties pulled out their support to Congress led UPA government, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday announced that the UPA government will have to seek trust vote of confidence on the issue of very controversial and crucial Indo-US nuclear deal. UPA government who announced to approach the IAEA to finalize the safeguards agreement will move for the same only after winning the trust votes. After holding a talk with Prime Minister Manmohan...
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Left pulls support to UPA!

The Left parties on Tuesday announced their withdrawal to the UPA government and said they would meet the President tomorrow to withdraw support to the congress led UPA government implementing their threat to pull the rug over the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal. The announcement came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that "India will approach IAEA very soon" which rendered any further talks on the issue meaningless. "As you are aware, the Left parties had decided that...
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India will approach IAEA very soon: PM!

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday stated that India will very soon go to the IAEA for a safeguards agreement for the controversial Indo-US nuclear deal. However, he did not specify any date as to when exactly India would go to the IAEA headquarters at Vienna. While heading toward Japan for G8 summit he spoke to journalists on board the special aircraft, "We have been assured that once we take the decision to go to the IAEA, the process will move very fast.” "As soon as we decide...
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Congress rejects July 7 nuke deadline by Left!

After the Left has set a July 7 deadline for the government to clarify its position on whether it was going ahead on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Congress on Friday sought to reject the deadline. Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters that Sovereign governments or political parties cannot be subjected to deadlines. Shighvi told that it is the time to work on triple objectives- to do a nuclear deal in national interest, to carry along our allies with us for that purpose and to go to...
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Indo-US deal: UPA-Left meet failed to end deadlock!

The much awaited Left-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coordination meeting over the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement ended on Wednesday evening without a decision. After a 90-minute meeting of the 15-member committee, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said that the committee will come to a conclusion on IAEA safeguards in its next meeting, for which they failed to mention a date. Its ninth meeting of Left-UPA over the crucial Indo-US nuke...
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Left leaders get “death threatening” mails for N-deal!

Left party leaders, who are against the Indo-US nuclear deal, are getting "death threats" through mails. Four top Communist leaders, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), A B Bardhan and D Raja (CPI), received identical copies of the letter in flawed English by mail for blocking the Indo-US nuke deal and allegedly "harassing" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government. "Death threat" mail was sent by some Vinay Kateri from Mumbai who warned them against "behaving like terrorists" and...
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