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India unlikely to be allowed into nuclear club (NSG) for now;

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India will need to wait a while longer before it joins the elite club of nation s that control trade in adva nced nuclear  technologies, acco rding to three diplomats with knowled ge of the process. The Nuclear Suppliers Group, or NSG, is unlikely to accept India's application for membership when it meets June 20 in Seoul because officials in New Delhi haven't yet met all the criteria for admission, said the diplomats, who represent governments inside the 48-nation group, according to the Bloomberg News.  They asked not to be named inline with diplomatic rules for discussing private deliberations. A delay could roil plans by President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who were meeting in Washington on Tuesday, to bring the world'ssecond-most-populous nation into the nuclear mainstream. It would push back a decision on Indian membership to later in the year, and risk bumping into the U.S. presidential election. Secretary of State John Ker