Why in News 8/aug/21 Recently, the former foreign secretary of India, Vijay Gokhale in his book claimed that the Left parties in India were influenced by China in their decision to oppose the Indo-US nuclear deal. In News: In the context of the 2005 Indo-US nuclear deal recently being in news, it has been pointed out that there has been little progress in terms of building new nuclear reactors in India since then. Other than the imported Russian-built reactor-based project in Tamil Nadu (grandfathered under an earlier 1998 agreement), progress of greenfield projects since the 2005 deal has been very slow.