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 …
Iran has resumed small-scale enrichment of uranium, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday, showing the country was determined to proceed with its atomic development despite international moves to restrict it. The deputy secretary of the Supreme National Council, Javad Vaeidi, also told reporters that Iran would resume negotiations …
The wetlands along northern China's biggest river system are drying up because of the thirst of an expanding population and a fast-growing economy, Xinhua news agency reported. Xinhua said 12 main sections of wetlands along the reaches of the Haihe River, which used to cover 3,800 sq km (1,465 sq …
India again voted against Iran as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referred the Iranian nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council which has the power to impose crippling political and economic sanctions on Tehran. A comforting factor for India was that two P-5 countries
Former Chief Minister of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, has claimed that Pakistani forces are using chemical weapons in Baluchistan. Mengal, who addressed the media at the Karachi Press Club, backed his claim by showing pictures of Baluch civilians who he said had been hit by chemical weapons. Further …
President George W. Bush said on Friday a Nuclear-armed Iran posed a "grave threat" and insisted it was "logical" that the regime be dealt with by the United Nations Security Council. Presenting a united front with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House, Mr Bush said he was not …
Mr Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister, on Thursday said his government was considerate towards the development needs of the people of lower areas and he personally had been monitoring the schemes. He was addressing a mammoth public meeting at Takipur in this subdivision after laying the foundation stones of the PHC …
Britain allowed the export to Iran of a cargo of radioactive material that experts believe could be used by Tehran in a nuclear weapons programme, a media report claimed. On August 31, a truck carrying 1,000 kg of zirconium silicate supplied by a British firm was stopped by Bulgarian customs …
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has offered to donate $50 million to help start a "last resort" international stockpile of nuclear-power-plant fuel for nations worried about sources of supply. Mr. Buffett called it "an investment in a safer world" because it could encourage Iran and other nations to find alternatives to …
Nuclear watchdog agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned on Saturday in accepting the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize that humanity faces a choice between nuclear weapons and survival. He shared the coveted award with his International Atomic Energy Agency
Britain claimed for the first time that documents recently found in Iran could only be used for nuclear weapons, and warned of "indications of weaponisation" in Tehran's nuclear programme. At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency devoted to the confrontation between Iran and the west over Tehran's nuclear …
The Army is set to get its first armoured reconnaissance vehicle designed to enter nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) environment and bring back samples to gauge contamination. The tracked NCB recce vehicle, based on the amphibious BMP II armoured personnel carrier, will be equipped to enter any hostile terrain to …
Japan will dig up and dispose of leftover world war II chemical weapons thought to be hurried in Dunhua, Jilin Province, in northeastern China form next Wednesday through 23 November in cooperation with the Chinese government the Japanese Cabinet Office said.
Warning against the possibility of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists, India has called for total elimination of nuclear weapons in a “progressive and systematic manner” under the global and “non-discriminatory” regime to guard against further proliferation. Addressing a committee of the General Assembly yesterday, the …
India and Pakistan signed an agreement on Monday making it obligatory for either country to notify the other at least 72 hours before testing ballistic missiles within a 40-km radius of the International Boundary and the Line of Control (LoC). The pact, which was reached after months of discussions, was …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today defended in Parliament the nuclear deal he signed with President George W. Bush during his recent visit to the US and made two important declarations: that India's strategic arsenal will remain outside the scope of any external interlocutors and that his government will not allow …
The fourth round of the six-party talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula will start in Beijing on July 26, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan here on Tuesday. The decision was made through consultations with all parties, Mr. Kong said. The talks involve China, the Democratic …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush embarked on a joint venture today to build a forward-looking partnership between India and the United States. Beginning a process which could make the Indo-US relations vastly deeper and strategic in dimension, the two leaders agreed to cooperate in such vital …
In Britain's worst nuclear accident in 13 years, about 83,000 litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe in the controversial Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield, a media report said. The leak, detected last month, was the outcome of a catalogue of …
An international conference seeking to shore up the treaty that is the centrepiece of efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons ended in failure, sunk by arguments between Iran, Egypt and the US. The conference on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which meets every five years, was unable to make …
Pakistan's medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile Shaheen II takes off from an undisclosed location in this March 9, 2004 file photo. On March 19, 2005, Pakistan successfully test-fired its long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, which could travel up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles) and carry all kinds of warheads, a military official …
