CSE is ranked as the no 1 think tank on environment policy in the global south according to latest edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania. The report ranks CSE among the top 16 environment think tanks globally. As accelerating advances …
If the Left parties could successfully block the Indo-US nuclear deal by threatening in all seriousness to withdraw their outside support to the UPA goverment, why can't they adopt the same tactic to force the Centre to rollback the steep hike in the prices of petroleum products, including LPG? Is …
PM must give a final push to nuclear deal There are media reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a last effort to rescue the nuclear deal from limbo and call an all-party conference to seek the understanding and support of political leaders. If this report is correct, it …
For four years, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has lived in the shadows, confined to his Islamabad home since a tearful televised confession in which he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. On Thursday, the 76-year-old scientist returned to the spotlight with …
IN what could further dampen the spirits of the nuclear deal enthusiasts, the government has put off the meeting of the Left-UPA panel on the Indo-US nuclear agreement to June 18. This is the second shocker for the pro-deal quarters in the past two days. Their hopes about the government …
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. The tone of the language suggesting that Tehran continues to stonewall the IAEA revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt …
M.R. Srinivasan 123 agreement specifically recognises the continuing existence of India's strategic programme. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, spoke recently at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai. For the first time, he openly endorsed India entering into civil nuclear energy cooperation with the United States of America and …
Trouble appears to be brewing amongst the Asian nations, including India, with China building a massive strategic underground submarine naval base that could house N-submarines and a host of aircraft carriers on Hainan Island. in South China Sea, south of Hong Kong. The base, being built near the holiday resort …
The Left Front has suffered a big jolt in panchayat elections in West Bengal. CPM's defeat in Nandigram and Singur at the hands of Trinamool Congress has proved that the people will not tolerate oppressive policies. Trinamool Congress has won all the four seats of district council of Nandigram. The …
In an important development, the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has chosen at least two chemical producing companies where they will be sending chemical engineers and chemists from African countries to get formal training in handling chemicals used for making chemical weapons. A team of OPCW …
An analysis of new commercial satellite photos has identified a larger deployment of medium range nuclear missiles in Central China with the capability to attack Russia and north India including New Delhi, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has reported. A study by Hans Kristensen concedes that the deployment is …
Kalam puts up his hand in support of the nuclear deal Former president Abdul Kalam, a founder of the Indian missile programme and a person committed to a vision of India as an active player in the international system, has been attacked by some for having allegedly abandoned the idea …
As the energy demand in the country was growing by leaps and bounds, the India-United States nuclear deal was important to meet the nation's energy needs and get access to uranium from abroad, Minister of State for Power Jairam Ramesh told journalists on the sidelines of a NTPC function here …
It's the 10th anniversary of the nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1998 that forever changed the way India and the rest of the world perceived each other. But the date has been marked only by newspapers and magazines who love anniversaries. It's not on the official anniversary agenda of the …
Buoyed By Agni-III Success, DRDO Seeks To Complete N-Triad By '11 By 2010-2011, India hopes to gatecrash into a very exclusive club of countries, which have both ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) as well as BMD (ballistic missile defence) capabilities. Only the US and Russia strictly …
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam was on Sunday all praise for the "courage' shown by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in deciding to go for Pokhran tests within weeks of assuming office in March 1998. "Vajpayee gave us the permission within a week of assuming the political office, …
Activists of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) on Saturday demanded that India and Pakistan roll back their nuclear weapons programme and divert the "colossal funds' wasted on the arms race to development, education and people's welfare. The activists, accompanied …
by K. Subrahmanyam I was a Consulting Editor of The Times of India on the day when the "Shakti' tests were conducted. A long-time friend of mine, who had been associated with me in campaigning for India exercising its nuclear option for over three decades, holding a high-level position, rang …
