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 …
China said yesterday it "deeply regrets" the U.S. Senate's rejection of a global treaty banning nuclear tests, and it pledged to speed up its own efforts to ratify the pact. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said China would maintain its moratorium on nuclear testing despite the Senate's rejection of the Comprehensive …
The US Senate had put global security at risk and set a poor example by voting down a nuclear test ban treaty at a time when the coup in Pakistan had threatened stability, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday.
With the Senate poised to reject a nuclear test-ban treaty as early as today, President Bill Clinton formally asked for a postponement yesterday, preferring inaction to the rejection of a pact he considers an administration priority. While some senators welcomed the request as an effort to break a political impasse, …
The World Bank has given clearane to the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB-Metrowater) for implementing nearly half-a-dozen schemes in the next two years.
NYT report : The second round of Pokhran II - the two blasts of 13 May 1998 - may have failed, the New York Times reported. "The Indian claims were exaggerated," George Perkovich, author of India's Nuclear Bomb to be published this week, told the newspaper.
Secret US report : A secret document prepared by the US department of energy has ranked India seventh among countries poscsessing nuclear weapons. US experts believe India possesses 150 to 250 kilogrammes of weapons-grade plutonium-- enough to produce nearly 100 nuclear warheads. Russia tops the list with 140 tonnes of …
Mishra : India cancelled its sixth nuclear test at Pokhran after scientists told the Government that they did not need any more data to strengthen the nation's nuclear capability. . This was revealed by National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra on the Star News channel.
Neanderthals were cannibals, according to research published today in the journal Science. Scientists say evidence shows this prehistoric man differed from modern man, not only in physique and brain size but also in behaviour. Neanderthals, whose existence was identified in Germany in 1856, were hunter-gatherers who moved across Europe with …
About 100 environmentalists and other citizens staged a rally in front of the Japanese consulate in Pusan (South Korea) yesterday to protest a controversial shipment of plutonium from Europe to Japan. Led by members of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM), the demonstrators issued a statement criticizing the shipment …
President Bill Clinton directed his top security aide to review within 60 days a Congressinal study which concluded that the US government was ill-equipped to combat the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
China announced publicly for the first time on Thursday that it had mastered the technology to build a neutron bomb, publishing a series of technical notes on its nuclear weapons programme.
There is risk that the two plutonium-carrying vessels expected to depart Europe for Japan this month could be vulnerable to armed attack from "nuclear pirates," a local environmental group warned yesterday. Citing the July 4 edition of the Independent Times, the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM) said that the …
One of the nastiest legacies of Soviet rule in the remote and sparsely populated Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan is the lingering remains of the sites used for the testing of nuclear and biological weapons. Kazakh experts have recently become concerned about reports that deadly anthrax bacteria, buried during the …
An estimated 5,000 nuclear weapons scientists and other US Department of Energy(DoE) employees with access to sensitive information are to undergo lie detector tests in response to charges that Chinese spies stile nuclear secrets from their laboratories, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
A secret agreement between Japan and the United States has been in place for at least the past 39 years under which US nuclear weapons can be brought into Japanese soil, top secret documents recently declassified by the US government reveal.
British scientists have designed and developed a state-of -the art biological weapons detection system that can give warning about enemy attack using toxins, harmful bacteria and viruses. The system that can be mounted on vehicles or rotary wing aircraft or a fixec ground installation is alos equipped wiht radio communication …
A number of novel methods are being evolved in different parts of the State for conserving water and to meet the threat of ground water depletion. Under the Ground Water Conservation Mission launched by Dewas District Government new techniques have been adopted to increase ground water table by collecting rain …
Twenty scientists from all over the country will receive the first set of annual awards, for diverse inventions, to mark the Pokhran nuclear blast. Last year, Prime Minister Vajpayee had said May 11 would be henceforth marked as "Technology Day" and invention award would be instituted in the day's name …
Janes: Indian scientists are reportedly developing a longer version of the intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III with 3,500-km reach capable of engaging targets deep inside China, according to the Janes Defence Weekly.
