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India’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions and Challenges

India has a long history with nuclear energy, with the Atomic Energy Commission established shortly after independence. Over 75 years, the country has developed a nuclear power capacity...

December 3, 2024

Dinesh Bhatia Appointed Ambassador to Brazil

Dinesh Bhatia has been appointed as India’s next Ambassador to Brazil, according to an announcement from the Ministry of External Affairs. Bhatia’s diplomatic career spans several countries and...

November 26, 2024

DRACO: Nuclear Fission powered Spacecraft of NASA

DARPA of the USA is working on nuclear fission-powered spacecraft along with NASA called the DRACO. DARPA is Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. And DARPA is the research...

January 25, 2023

India agrees to $200 mn LoC to support Kyrgyzstan

According to External Affairs Minister (EAM), S Jaishankar, India has agreed on USD 200 million Line of Credit support for the developmental projects in Kyrgyzstan. Key Facts This line of credit was...

October 11, 2021

Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant

Recently, India made a deal with Bangladesh where Indian companies will develop the transmission lines of Bangladesh Rooppur Nuclear power plant. Some facts about Rooppur Nuclear power plant....

March 30, 2021

HL-2M Tokamak Reactor

The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China’s largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental device. Located in southwestern Sichuan province, the reactor is often called an “artificial sun” because...

December 7, 2020

Hualong One: China’s entry in Nuclear Power Sector

China recently connected its first indigenously developed third generation nuclear power reactor called Hualong one to its national grid. The Hualong One nuclear power reactor is first of...

November 30, 2020

India-US extend MoU for Cooperation on Nuclear Energy

India and the United States have extended the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Energy agreement for another ten years. The agreement is also called the 123 agreement. India buys the...

November 28, 2020

UAE: First Arab Country to generate electricity from coal

The United Arab Emirates recently became the first and probably the last Arab country to generate electricity from coal. The coal plant, Hassyan is to be set up...

November 28, 2020

India-Finland sign MoU on biodiversity conservation

On November 26, 2020, India and Finland signed Memorandum of Understanding in the field of biodiversity conservation and environment protection. The agreement was signed by the Environment Minister...

November 26, 2020

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