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- India assures US share of nuclear pie
- India and the U.S. on Monday agreed to set a timeline for operationalising the civil nuclear agreement. The Fourth Strategic Dialogue co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here reviewed several issues ranging from the status of civil nuclear ties between the two countries through defence trade to education and cultural exchanges — through some 30 bilateral panels.
- India had promised these multi-billion bonanzas in exchange for supporting its case at the NSG and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
- While Washington was able to make India agree on a deadline for clearing Westinghouse’s mega civil energy project, India was handed an assurance for importing shale gas from the U.S., which is likely to accrue by 2016-17.
- Swaminathan award for William Dhar
- William D. Dar, director general of International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, has been selected for the M.S. Swaminathan award for leadership in agriculture for 2013
- Named after eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, the award is considered the country’s version of the “world food prize”
- Chennai Bangalore corridor extension to benefit traders
- The proposed extension of the Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor to Krishnapatnam Port will benefit traders in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
- The inclusion of Krishnapatnam Port in the extended corridor would benefit traders to a large extent as it would connect four ports, three international airports and three cities by rail and road. Besides, several thermal power plants and oil refineries are coming up in southern coastal Andhra Pradesh.
- While Japanese investors have been demanding better infrastructural facilities between Ennore and Chennai Port and road/rail connectivity from Chennai to Bangalore, the Andhra Pradesh government lobbied for inclusion of Krishnapatnam in the Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor and the Centre accepted the proposal.
- Currently, coal, maize, minerals, granite, fertilizers and wheat are moved to and from Krishnapatnam Port through 15 rakes per day and this will increase to 60 rakes per day. Coal is transported to Toranagallu in Bellary district for a steel firm and to Gummidipoondi for a power plant in Tamil Nadu; it gets wheat from Maharashtra and maize from Koppal, Karnataka.
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