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Pakistan on Wednesday test-fired a medium-range, nuclear-capable missile, the second such test in less than a week, the Pakistani Army said. The Pakistani Army said it successfully fired the Hatf-4 missile, also known as the Shaheen 1, early Wednesday morning.
The short-range surface-to-air Trishul missile has been successfully test-fired from Orissa, defence sources said. The test was significant as the Defence Ministry had indicated in March it intended to shelve the development of the missile after it was plagued by delays and problems with its guidance systems. The missile, which …
India is developing the Agni III, an advanced version of its most sophisticated nuclear-capable missile, and scientists are seeking to test-fire it later this year, the defense minister said. "The test firing of Agni III is overdue and we feel the need for that long range missile as part of …
In a war where the US is trying to minimise the loss of innocent lives, defence analysts and correspondents in Iraq are watching for one of the Pentagon's most secret weapons
The Planning Commission has set up an internal group to monitor the fall-out of the Iraq war on the Indian economy. Called thhe Standing Group on Economic Fallout of Iraq war, the panel will be headed by the Secretary, Planning Commission, N.K. Sinha.
Planning Commission deputy chairman, K C Pant said on Saturday, the United States' attack on Iraq and its fallout, would have to be watched and suitable measures taken when the need arose. Speaking on the war's impact on the Indian economy, Mr Pant said, oil import, export and foreign remittance …
As the US-led attack on Iraq entered the second day, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has suggested major changes in the oil-for-food programme asking the Security Council to allow the world body to completely take it over as Baghdad would not be able to run it. Annan, in a letter …
Activists disrupted a presentation on the Camdessus report on "Financial Water Infrastructure" at the Third World Water Forum. Shouting "water for life, not water for profit" and other slogans, they climbed on the stage with banners during a presentation by a panel commenting on the report. Michel Camdessus, former head …
The Air Force on Tuesday successfully tested the largest conventional bomb in the American arsenal in Florida, a munition so massive that its 18,000 pounds of high explosives must be dropped from the rear of a cargo plane, officials said. The bomb explodes a few feet above the ground, and …
People's War Group Naxalites have launched a full-scale recruitment drive in their bastions of Rayagada and Malkangiri, according sources. The outfit, which is reported to have diverted a part of its armed force to undertake operations in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, has been recruiting tribals from Rayagada and Malkangiri districts to augment …
The Union urban development ministry's decision on regularisation of alterations in DDA flats is not exactly a "new year" gift. It's not so much a larger dwelling area as it is a strain on ground water resources of the city since most of DDA flats, that the development body still …
India on Friday said that it will go ahead with the 450 mw Baglihari hydel project on Chenab river in J&K; despite Pakistan threatening to take the dispute to neutral experts for resolution
Pakistan conducted a successful test launch of the short range Abdali missile the third and final test in a series that began on Friday, state-run "Pakistan Television" reported today.
After announcing the successful test firing of a Ghauri missile by Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf said he would shortly address the nation to appraise people about the tension along the border adding that "we are not scared of war".
A modified version of Lakshya, the indigenously developed subsonic pilotless target aircraft, was successfully test flown from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore in Orissa, on Tuesday.
The US violating many security-related treaties including NPT and CTBT say the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy in a report. It is said the treaties of which the US is in violation also include Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty, Biological and Toxin Weapons …
The indigenously developed unmanned air vehicle Lakshya was successfully test-flown with a newly-developed engine from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-Sea, sources said.
The United States on Friday will make a sixth attempt to intercept and shoot down a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean in a controversial missile defense test programme opposed by Moscow, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The test is part of President George W Bush's goal of building a …
