HEADLINES
- Nawaz sherif set for third term as Prime minister
NATIONAL
NEWS
- Sites scouted for biggest nuclear fuel fabrication plant
- Sites in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are on the radar for setting up a third nuclear fuel fabrication facility to meet requirements of nuclear power reactors, even as the Ministry of Environment and Forests’ approval for the second unit at Kota, Rajasthan is awaited.
- The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) in Hyderabad, with an installed capacity of 4,780 MW, is currently meeting the fuel requirements of 20 nuclear reactors. Of them, 18 are Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) and two are Boiling Water Reactors.
- By 2020, a total of 2,000 tonnes of fuel would be required by various reactors and the NFC was gearing up to meet the needs
- At present, 60 per cent of the raw material for nuclear fuel is being met indigenously and the rest imported mainly from Russia and Kazakhstan. The DAE is looking for more vendors from countries such as Uzbekistan and Namibia.
- Jurists want India to sign Hague convention on International Child abduction
- Jurists and eminent academicians on Monday called upon India to not only sign the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction but also legislate on it. For, the number of cases of either the father or the mother abducting the child and fleeing the country of stay was increasing.
- The multilateral treaty provides for an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member-nation to another. The Convention currently has 89 member-nations worldwide, but India is not a signatory so far. It seeks to protect children internationally from the harmful effects of their removal or retention and to establish procedures to ensure their prompt return to the state of their habitual residence as well as to secure protection for the rights of access.
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS
- New danger zone for earth – UN
- The world has entered a “new danger zone” with levels of Earth-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere never experienced by humankind, the United Nations (U.N.) climate chief warned
- When it breached the CO2 threshold of 400 parts per million (ppm) last week, the world “crossed a historic threshold and entered a new danger zone
- The level measured by U.S. monitors has not existed on Earth in three to five million years — a time when temperatures were several degrees warmer and the sea level was 20 to 40 meters higher than today
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which informs policy makers, has said CO2 must be limited to 400 ppm for a temperature rise of 2-2.4 degree Celsius . Climate negotiations have been making poor progress and the yearly rise has led many to conclude that warming of three or four degree Celsuis is probable by century’s end
OPINION/EDITORIALS
- Article on FDI in defence purchase
- An important article by Jairam Ramesh on MGNREGA
- Editorial on Outsourcing protectionism in the US
- Editorial on banning the sale of Gutka
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