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 Kurichu Hydroelectric Project in Gyelpozhing, Mongar (Bhutan) is on schedule to be commissioned by September, 2000. An immediate target is to finish concreting the dam and power house up to be river bed level before the monsoon to avoid flooding. The Project is being executed on the turn key …
A Delhi court today issued notice to the Delhi Government on a plea seeking directions to restrain it from removing a temple at Seelampur, north-east Delhi, located on the proposed route of metro railway. The notice , returnable by tomorrow, was issued by the Civil Judge, Mr Ramesh Kumar today.
The newly born alliance between Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors Corp. on the development and production of environment-friendly cars shows how serious the world's automakers are about getting green vehicles on the road. Following a similar tie-up at the end of 1997 between what is now Daimler-Chrysler Ag and …
International nuclear inspectors are worried that 60 kilograms of highly enriched uranium in Yugoslavia at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, 16 kilometers from Belgrade, may be used improperly or may be struck by a errant NATO missile or bomb.
FBI agents searched the home of a fired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist for nearly six hours on Saturday, hauling away boxes of evidence in their investigation into whether nuclear weapons secrets were leaked to China.
A leading American nuclear scientist has warned of the potential misuse of nuclear wastes by rogue states such as Iran and Iraw to produce nuclear weapons and called for stronger control measures to check the trend.
Deadly nerve and chemical weapons stored on a remote Pacific atoll have just about all gone and the United States is set to return the highly secret Johnston atoll to its vast flocks of sea-birds. Despite strong Pacific political objection, tens of thousands of mortar shells, artillery shells, rockets and …
The US senate voted overhwelmingly to approve a bill calling for a nationwide defence against limited ballistic missile attack after President Bill Clinton and most senate Democrats dropped their long-standing opposition to the legislation.
Residents of Kherolai village, which witnessed five nuclear tests last May, received Rs 15 lakh as compensation for damage caused to their houses by the blasts.The amount was distributed equally among the 112 residents of the village, which is only two km from the site of nuclear testings in Pokhran …
Biodiversity prospecting or exploration, extraction and screening of biological diversity and indigenous knowledge for commerically valuable genetic and biochemical products, particularly with several multinational companies patenting Indian products, has become a heated subject. Now the government wants to buld up protective barriers for such products and ensure that country gets …
A large number of tribal farmers of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra dn Gujarat, in a meeting at village Jalsindhi, discussed the development after the Suprme Court's recent ruling allowing another five metre increase in the Sardar Sarovar Dam, on March 6 to 7. Village Jalsindhi happens to be the first village …
President K.R. Narayanan on Saturday presented the Gandhi Peace Prize for 1998 to the Ramakrishna Mission bestowing the award on an institution for the first time.
President Bill Clinton plans to push United States Senate ratification of an international treaty banning nuclear tests as one of his "top priorities" of 1999, national security advise Sandy Berger said on Tuesday.
Russia has asked the U.S. Energy Department to expand joint projects aimed at securing dangerous materials, including nuclear fuel, that could be turned into weapons, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Wednesday on a visit here. Richardson said the proposal incorporated an unusual provision that would provide the United States greater …
India has taken the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to task for jettisoning its initial mandate of promoting peaceful uses of atomic energy and attempting to play the global nuclear police. In a sharp critique of the international body, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, R Chidambaram, said the …
The UN Security Council members have received confidential information, potentially useful in the manufactureof chemical weapons and showing how UN arms inspectors conducted some of their work in Iraq, diplomats said. The information, if passed on could help clandestine groups intent on developing chemical weapons, since it covers qualtiy control, …
U.S. and UN experts have challenged a Belgian scientist who reported that he had found evidence that Yugoslavia used chemical weapons on ethnic Albanian fighters and civilians in Kosovo during the months of the NATO bombing and before peacekeepers arrived. The Belgian scientist, Aubin Heyndrickx, director of the International Reference …
Pakistan has the capacity and expertise to build a neutrone bomb, a prominent pakistan nuclear scientist said Wednesday , following the disclosure by India it could also make the devices.
China has claimed that it has mastered the technology for neutron bombs as well as miniaturised nuclear warheads for its missiles without any help from Chinese spying in the United States. In a lengthy 80-page report issued on Thursday by the State Council (cabinet) in Beijing, China admitted the advance …
Greenpeace arrived in Cape Town to warn the officials and the public about an imminent plutonium shipment which could enter South African waters. Two British-flagged vessels, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific Pintail, are on their way from Europe to Japan carrying around an estimated 446 kilograms of weapons usable …
