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No change in nuclear
policy, asserts PM 

What is India News Service, Friday, 17 December 2004, 1800 hrs IST


There is no uncertainty over the country's nuclear policy, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, asserted in the Rajya Sabha today. "India is a nuclear power and a responsible nuclear power," he said.

Dr. Singh was responding to clarifications sought by the Leader of the Opposition, Jaswant Singh, after question hour on a newspaper report about the External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh's "remarks" to a South Korean newspaper.

The Prime Minister said he had also seen the report and would check its authenticity from Natwar Singh when he returned from his foreign tour tomorrow. In his assessment, the Minister's reported remarks must have been in the context of replies to questions from journalists. "It was not a policy statement."

He rejected Opposition misgivings about uncertainty in the country\92s nuclear policy and emphasised that it was based on \93continuity and consensus.\94


No bail yet for seer: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Tamil Nadu government on the bail plea of Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi in the Sankararaman murder case. The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti declined to pass any interim order enlarging the seer on an interim bail as requested by his counsel Fali S Nariman. The Court directed the Tamil Nadu police to produce the entire case diary in original before it on January 6 for further hearing on the bail petition of Shankaracharya. The Court also asked the police to produce the alleged dying declaration in the case and wanted to know as to who had recorded it.

RAW officer\92s flight finds echo in Lok Sabha: For the first time in over 200 days since senior R&AW official Rabinder Singh gave the surveillance a slip and fled the country, the matter was raised in Parliament today by a BJP member.

Speaker's quit threat angers Opp: For once it was the Speaker's turn to threaten a walkout. Saying that the "Chair had become totally irrelevent" after allegations of tanashahi (dictatorship) and upset over the way he had to adjourn the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Mr Somnath Chatterjee on Thursday made a surprise offer to step down.

Report on speedy Army promotions accepted: The Government has accepted the Ajay Vikram Singh Committee report which would ensure faster promotions for Army officers up to the rank of Colonel in order to reduce their age profile at the combat level and ensure that they get promotions commensurate to their jobs.

The "common man's DTH" is here: DD Direct Plus \97 "the world's first free-to-air direct-to-home television service" \97 was launched by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on Thursday.

Militants abduct Manipur University V-C & registrar: Three weeks after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sent a message of peace from the Manipur University campus, suspected KYKL militants abducted its vice-chancellor N Bijoy Singh and registrar R K Ranjan. They were kidnapped on December 13 

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