Port of Spain:
India and Canada have agreed to sign a nuclear deal in principle for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The deal is to be ratified by the Canadian parliament.
The decision was taken at a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper in Port of Spain on the sidelines of the Commonwealth summit.
The two leaders described the development as a "milestone" opening up "tremendous opportunity" for the two countries.
Canada, which is the world's largest producer of uranium, has become the eighth country with which India has reached civil nuclear agreement since the NSG lifted a 34-year-old ban on India to join global nuclear trade in September last year.
The other countries with which India has already signed the civil nuclear deal are the US, France, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia.
The Canadian Prime Minister was in New Delhi on November 17 when the two countries had announced that they are working to complete the civil nuclear deal. (With PTI inputs)