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 …
India's most sophisticated surface-to-air missile Akash, with a range of 25 kilometers, was successfully test fired from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa, about 15 km from here on Tuesday.
Delhi Government on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking dual fuel mode in the Capital as recommended by the Mashelkar Committee report. The Union Cabinet had also approved the Mashelkar Committee report last month. The Delhi Government also informed the apex Court that it had decided to …
Genetically modified (GM) or transgenic plants will play an important role in Indian agriculture. The situation demands an integrated approach for sustainable agricultural development as no single option can provide an answer to better nutritional quality of crop yield.
On the eve of the Republic Day India successfully test-fired a short-range variant of the Agni ballistic missile. With a range of around 800-900 km, this nuclear-capable 'Agni-I variant' seems to have been specifically designed keeping Pakistan in mind.
After the success of suface-to-surface Prithvi and Agni variant missiles, Indian scientists have achieved another major breakthrough by the completion of trails of the country's first-ever sea-to-surface missile Danush. "The naval version of the Prithvi missile, christened Danush, is ready for induction after successful trials at sea," Dr. V K …
Military scientists sprayed radioactive plumes across miles of English towns and villages into the outskirts of London in a series of secret trials, it emerged. The trials were conducted by government scientists as they sought to develop defences against biological weapons. The radioactive gas had been mixed with a simulant …
The Government has given the go ahead to the Army to raise a Agni Missile Strategic Group. The raising of this first visible land-based nuclear deterrence will commence in June 2002 and the group will be operational by June 2005. This decision will propel India into the select group of …
Scientists have given warning that even if Britain spent billions on installing chemical sensors in every big city it might not be able to protect civilians from a largescale bio-terrorist attack.
It is heartening to note that Indian scientists are already in the process of setting up Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to tackle incidents of chemical-biological terrorism. With the Anthrax scare gripping the US and spreading alarmingly fast across the globe, it has become imperative for Indian security and medical agencies …
Easily produced, germ weapons could wreak even greater chaos than suicide pilots in hijacked planes. Now there's evidence that Iraq, Iran, Libya, China, North Korea, Russia, Israel, Pakistan and Taiwan have biological arsenals, and the group is growing. Only one or two of these nations is presumed to possess the …
The Rajasthan Government has approved an ambitious project for reviving and renovating over 100 irrigation schemes to ensure that the irrigation waters reach the cultivators across the State.
China outlined proposals for a treaty banning the "weaponisation" of outer space, in a move intended to intensify pressure on the US to abandon controversial plans for a missile defence shield.
A high-level team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has opened negotiations in Pyongyang with fresh demands for access to nuclear weapons project that North Korea agreed to abandon seven years ago.
The Taiwanese Defence Minister, Mr. Wu Shih-wen, has said that Taiwan would test-fire the U.S.-made Pac-2 missile system in June, becoming the first foreign country to test-fire it on its own soil. "The army has nearly finished deploying the Pac-2 missile system bought from the United States. We will test-fire …
Iraq tested a bomb in 1987 that cast a radioactive cloud in the open air and was meant to cause vomiting, cancer, birth defects and slow death, according to a secret Iraqi report of the weapon's construction and testing.
The US Defence Department is studying whether to develop a new, low-yield nuclear weapon with an earth-penetrating nose cone that could knock out hardened or deeply buried targets such as leadership bunkers and command centers, according to administration and congressional sources.
Japan on Thursday sharply criticised the test firing of longer range Agni II missile in India, saying it might intensify nuclear arms and missile development race in the region while China and Australia were cautious in their reaction.
Ever since Nepal began on the long journey towards development back in the 1950s, the nation's leaders, economists and almost everyone else have flogged the country's abundant water resources as the shortest path towards economic prosperity.
With thousands of transport entrepreneurs up in arms against the Nepal government's recent announcement to ban vehicles older than 20 years from the Kathmandu Valley from mid-November this year, the government is unlikely to translate its words into action that easily.
A U.S.-Russian disarmament agreement to take 68 tons of plutonium out of nuclear weapons could have an unintended effect of increasing chances of nuclear proliferation, according to a report by an independent researcher Arjun Makhijani, a nuclear physicist.
