SYDNEY: Australia should not sell uranium to India until the South Asian giant establishes an independent nuclear regulator, a parliamentary committee recommended on Tuesday, as it called for more safeguards on a landmark energy deal between the two countries.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi inked a long-awaited pact for Australia to sell uranium to India in September last year, in a bid to ease the country’s power crisis and help provide clean energy to its population.

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