Not all is lost on N-Deal (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee met on March 24 at Washington and took stock of the landmark civilian nuclear deal stuck in a muddle of mounting opposition from Indian Communists. India's government and its communist allies last week failed to break a deadlock over the controversial nuclear deal with the US but said they would meet again next month to discuss the pact.