The Hindu, 4 May 2008

The UPA-Left Committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal would meet here on Tuesday with the Left parties, providing outside support to the Congress-led ministry, sticking to their guns and the government saying it would seek the sense of Parliament on the matter. At their meeting on May six, the UPA and its Left supporters are slated to discuss the state of government's negotiations with the IAEA on an India-specific safeguards agreement for implementing the nuclear deal. "We will consider what the government will report to us on its talks with the IAEA. On that basis, we will take the issue forward," a senior Left leader told PTI when asked about the stand they would take at the upcoming meeting. ...

The Hindu, 4 May 2008

A Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology has expressed the opinion that the civilian nuclear agreement with the U.S. has to be looked at from the larger perspective of national security and interest. In its report tabled in Parliament earlier this week, the Standing Committee observed: "Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement has caused serious concerns with regard to our foreign policy and security related issues on which our Parliament had to debate several times. The sense of the Parliament needs to be taken into consideration." The Committee's observations come at a time when the United Progressive Alliance-Left joint committee on the India-U.S. nuclear deal is scheduled to meet here on May 6. ...