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 …
The UPA-Left committee on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal is likely to meet on May 5. However, Left leaders refused to confirm the date. Sources also said CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has also written, on behalf of the Left parties, to foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking clarifications about the …
The US scientific community is against promotion of nuclear industry in their country. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stated that if the 123 Indo-US nuclear deals were not carried out India would face "isolation and sanctions'. US spokesmen also expressed similar threats. The US Ambassador to India, David C Mulford …
Japan will lead discussions at July's Group of Eight summit on the North Korean and Iranian nuclear standoffs and on strengthening the nonproliferation framework, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday in a biennial report on disarmament. The 2008 white paper on disarmament and nonproliferation also criticizes China's failure to provide …
Sonia Primes Congress For Assembly Polls New Delhi: The UPA government is all set to defy the Left's veto and approach the International Atomic Energy Agency by mid-July for the ratification of India-specific safeguards if
Nine months ago, India's big power ambitions suffered a setback. The 3,000-km range Agni-3, launched for the first time last July from Wheeler Island off Orissa coast, fell into the Bay of Bengal. The then defence minister Pranab Mukherjee looked at it positively. "Partial success," he called it. "The first …
The maiden flight of Agni-III, India's most powerful and advanced long-range ballistic missile, from Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast, on Sunday was unsuccessful.Official sources attributed the failure of the flight to the non-separation of the first stage from the second stage.
"India will be better off signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which permits the exit of any signatory nation, rather than the nuclear deal with the US that will bind the country for perpetuity', top nuclear scientist Homi Sethna has said. "NPT may be discriminatory, but we will still be …
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi warned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of "stern action" if it were to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile. Reacting to reports from Washington that North Korea had completed the loading of fuel for test-firing Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, Mr. Koizumi told journalists in Tokyo …
The Champagne vineyards of France could face a nuclear disaster according to Greenpeace which said radioactive underground water had been found just 10 kms form the counytry's most prestigious wine producing region.
An eight year-old boy died due to possible side-effects of endosulphan spraying in stateowned cashew plantation corporation farms in Kanhangad in Kerala, becoming the third victim to the pesticide in less than a month. Jithin, a Class III student, suffering from physical disorders since birth suspectedly due to the pesticide …
The country's most ambitious strategic ballistic missile, Agni-III, built to destroy targets 3,500-4,000 km away is technically ready in all respects for a schedule of three flight tests, including one with the end user, DRDO chief M Natarajan said. The nuclear-capable missile has been ready for test-firing as far back …
The repeated thefts of uranium samples belonging to the Department of Atomic Energy based in Meghalaya has raised grave concerns that the material may reach the hands of terrorists. Most of the sample Uranium from Domisiat and Wakhaji in West Khasi Hills goes to DoAE for analysis. The DoAE labs …
India and Australia have agreed that a group of officials will discuss a possible supply of uranium to New Delhi. Canberra has, however, ruled out any immediate change in its stand
Australia will not supply natural uranium to India as long as it does not sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), Alexander Downer, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, said. He was responding to a question whether Australia saw a role for itself as a supplier of uranium to India in the …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the United States agreeing to a civil nuclear cooperation deal with India will be an act of "historic reconciliation." Hoping that the deal would be clinched during the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, Dr. Singh said: " ... That would be …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to make a statement in Parliament on the controversial proposed nuclear deal with the United States. According to official sources, the Prime Minister hopes to address the primary objection of the critics
By November 2006, Belgaum in Karnataka will perhaps become one of the few cities in the country to have a system that provides water to denizens in many of the areas, 24 hours a day throughout the year. For the first time in the country, a novel project is being …
Iran's influential hardline spiritual leaders have issued a fatwa, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons as a "countermeasure' against other nuclear powers. The fatwa, which for the first time questions the theocracy's traditional stance that Sharia law forbade the use of nuclear weapons, signals Tehran's stiffening resolve on the nuclear …
