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So, while the Government of India, in its insane drive to import nuclear reactors - which cannot be justified in terms of cost considerations and, far more importantly, carries the stupendous risk of catastrophic accidents (that is precisely why there is so much fuss about the liability clause) apart from being routinely hazardous - from abroad, and the US in particular, to boost India’s nuclear power programme - a perpetual laggard18, at a time when globally nuclear power is very much on a declining curve19 - with China, Russia, India, S. Korea and the US leading the rather smallish pack, of just 14 countries, planning to build new reactors, has tried too hard to treacherously subvert an Act passed by the Indian parliament to appease and lure the potential suppliers; a significant hurdle - even if not insurmountable, apparently, continues to remain in place, nonetheless..

Communist Party leader from Maharashtra Govind Pansare is critical after two unidentified bike riders fired at him on 16 February 2018. see reports

Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, who have fought a long and heroic battle to advance the cause of justice for Gujarat’s 2002 pogrom, face possible prosecution on charges of financial misappropriation. We see this as a clear case of the politics of vendetta launched with explicit intent to whitewash and efface from public memory the misdeeds of those who today wield political power in the state and centre.

Concerned citizens are holding a press conference to condemn the unwarranted harassment and victimisation of Teest Setalvad and Javed Anand by the Gujarat police and state administration.

Devotees of a dead guru in India put his body in a freezer to preserve him as they believed he would return to life to lead them, this was in 2014. But decades before this in 1993 there had been a similar situation when devotees believed their guru was in meditative trance while he had been dead a good two months. See the reports in the media