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Central officials today sought to minimise the significance of the arrest of three men accused of trying to smuggle one kg uranium to Pakistan. West Bengal police had said on Tuesday that they had arrested three men for attempting to smuggle uranium to Pakistan via Nepal.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock five minutes closer to midnight on Thursday, citing the world's increased peril in light of nuclear tests by India, Pakistan and the failure of the five nuclear powers to significantly reduce their huge arsenals.
The proposal to bring bottled or packaged drinking water under mandatory quality control and within the purview of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is still hanging fire with the Union health ministry. According to senior FDA officials, a "political decision" in this regard is pending at the Centre.
Germany and Russia signed two agreements on trade in nuclear materials on Monday, the German Foreign Ministry said. The first and more controversial allows Russia to ship weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium to a research reactor in Germany.The second limits German firms' liability in the event of a nuclear accident at …
The leader of the team of scientists that conducted Pakistan's nuclear tests last week said the country has two more nuclear-capable missiles, one of which is "ready for testing at an hour's notice".
Sharif to unveil national agenda on June 10 :Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he would unveil a "national agenda" on Wednesday to meet the situation arising out of the nuclear tests conducted by his country last month.
Indian and Pakistan have reawakened the world to the dangers of nuclear weapons. Chemical and biological ones may be just as hard to control : a report.
Taking a step ahead of the highly advanced Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher system, the Pune-based Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) has now developed a high-performance artillery rocket system which can fire within a range of 70km-100 km.
More than 1,100 South Korean Vietnam War veterans still suffering from diseases related to Agent Orange, has filed a suit against the Korean government for 360 billion won. The veterans, who fought side by side with U.S. and South Vietnamese troops, said they will also sue the U.S. government and …
Pakistan will soon carry out a second launch of its new medium-range Ghauri missile, a leading newspaper quoting U S intelligence agncies has said. The Washington Times quoting an intelligence official said yesterday US is expecting a second test of the 925-mile Ghauri within the next week.
Pakistan on Saturday conducted another nuclear test, the sixth in three days, and offered to have talks with India for "mutual restraint" on the nuke issue. The test was conducted at 11.55 am(12.25 IST).
Pakistan's claim to have tested five nuclear weapons was greeted with skepticism among military and intelligence analysts in Washington, who said they had detected a single, relatively weak seismic signal emanating from Pakistan's test site and had reason to expect that additional Pakistani nuclear blasts would occur there in coming …
Japan is trying to exploit the nuclear tests in the sub continent to reestablish itself as an important non-proliferation interlocutor on the world's stage on the basis of its economic clout which it hopes will submerge the fact of its nuclear status as a U.S. protected state.
Villagers living near the Indian nuclear test range on Friday demanded the government build a local hospital following growing fears that they are suffering the fallout from this month's blasts. The residents of Khetlai village said in a letter faxed to President K.R. Narayanan that many of them were suffering …
Villagers in Chagai district in Baluchistan where Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests said that on Friday they felt tremors and saw a dust cloud in the sky soon after hearing loud bangs. The devices were detonated on Thursday afternoon at Chattar, 270 kms southwest of the provincial capital Quetta, official …
Consider these facts: An independent study has found Malviya Nagar area's water alarmingly contaminated, old Delhi has high rate of water borne diseases. Delhi Cantonment authorities have warned water supply officials that the MCD-supplied water is not even "fit for agricultural purposes," in Trans-Yamuna area. Number of hospitals have reported …
The United States on Wednesday set three definite conditions for India, including the signing of the CTBT without conditions, avoiding weaponisation and deployment of ballistic missiles, to "put itself back on the road of good international standing" in the field of weapons proliferation procedure.
President Boris Yelstin said that Russia would dismantle all its old nuclear submarines in the Barents Sea region if Norway provided credits to help it do so.
Euphoria over the recent nuclear tests is gradually being replaced by a movement against building up a nuclear arsenal. A nationwide signature campaign against nuclear weaponisation has been launched in preparation for a confernce of "Right thinking scientists" on May 30 in Bangalore.
