Delhi-based environment think-tank CSE will be honoured with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development this year for its work in environmental education and protection. According
The Japanese government is accelerating its effort to dispose of about 700,000 chemical weapons left in China by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of the World War II. The government plans to
Talks on anti-cheating provisions for an international pact banning biological weapons will not be completed by the end of this year, the target date set by the US and the European
The government has been asked to go ahead with the development of the full range of missiles in addition to variants of Agni currently under development. The Parliament's Standing Committee on
Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Iftikhar Chaudhra Khan, who fled to the USA to seek political asylum, has said that Pakistan has deployed nuclear weapons along its border with India and its warheads
Britain's ban on land mines will become total with the elimination of an "exemption for exceptional circumstances," the government said on Friday. On July 10, under pressure to show support for
The world's atomic watchdog said that although France's nuclear testing in the South Pacific had posed no health risks, this conclusion should not be considered a carte blanche for further tests. The
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics director Bikash Sinha today said a section of the International scientific community was trying to belittle India's success in conducting nuclear tests at Pokhran.
Defector scientists : Pakistan military commanders have discussed pre-emptive nuclear strikes against India and have drawn up a list of cities and military installations to be targeted, according
Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) R Chidambaram said at Mumbai on Saturday that India exported 100 tonnes of heavy water to South Korea recently for $20 million .
It appeared to be a harmless lump of sugar, albeit a lump of sugar dating from World War I. But when scientists examined it, they found living anthrax spores, apparently placed there 80 years ago by
