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 government has decided to have the Chemical Weapons Convention Bill, which prohibits development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons, considered and passed in the ensuing Budget session of Parliament.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) will take over the nuclear weaponisation programme from the Atomic Energy Commission(AEC) under a new control structure being discussed within the government. The Institute of Armaments Technology, Pune, a DRDO laboratory will become the focus of the programme under the new structure.
India has achieved a world record by accomplishing five nuclear tests within the span of 48 hours, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Emergy, Dr R Chidambaram said.
The five nuclear bombs exploded in Pokhran last week were the products of a 25-year -old secret programme to master the technology of indigenously turning crude nuclear explosives into deliverable nuclear weapons.
Greenpeace International has questioned the Indian government's claim that its nuclear tests in the Pokhran range had no radioactive release in the atmosphere because these were 'contained' underground tests. Its view is that all nuclear tests have a radiation effect on the environment because there is radioactive release even in …
India can now mass produce the intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) - Agni- and has embarked on Phase-2 of the project aimed at substantially increasing its range and impact, the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Ministry, Dr. A.P.J. Kalam, announced here on Sunday. The Centre has given its approval to …
Scientists : The successful execution of the set of five nuclear tests under project 'Shakti-98' has catapulted India's capability to design a range of nuclear weapons, and makes it a nuclear weapon state. The simultaneous undergrounds nuclear tests at Pokhran on May 11 and 13, was a technological feat with …
For development of wastelands under Integrated Wastelands Development Project, the Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWCRTI), Udhagamandalam, has taken up the Salaiyur Watershed Development in Annur block of Coimbatore district as a model watershed. Located at about 18 km off Mettupalayam, the Salaiyur watershed is characterised …
PM : Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has set at rest speculation about India's future nuclear programme, saying the country is moving close to aquiring nuclear weapons. The country, he affirmed has the capacity for " a big bomb."
Any joint proposal to stall the World Bank assistances to India by US, Japan and other developed countries, which imposed sanctions following the nuclear tests conducted by India, would not affect the disbursements of already sanctioned loans. This was stated by World Bank's country director to India Edward R Lim, …
The Department of Environment and Remote Sensing has completed the project of "change detection of Wuller Lake" which has taken place during the past 140 years. The mapping of the pasture land in Jammu, the directory of lakes and water bodies and land cover mapping of the state have also …
A Russian specialist on strategic missiles, Yuri Balashov has warned that Russia's older submarine based nuclear tipped rockets are wearing out and has publicly criticized the military leadership for prolonging their use, which he said risks a catastrophe.
Japan yesterday froze all annual grants-in-aid to India, which were worth 3.5 billion yen (Rs 93.9 crore) in fiscal 1997 and hinted that even its loans, which amounted to 132.7 billion yen (Rs 3,924 crore), would be stopped.In a diplomatic slight to India, Japan also declined to host the Indian …
A day after the triumphant announcement about the country's successful triple nuclear tests at Pokhran, and in the face of a steady stream of reactions from across the world, the Centre on Tuesday adopted a cautious approach - expressing its willingness to discuss the prospect of India adhering to the …
In Monday's tests, Indian scientists demonstrated that they can detonate a fission device, a low yield device and a thermonuclear device. In essence, they have succeeded in exploding an atom bomb, which is based on the nuclear fission process complicated fission-fusion reaction.
The first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert in the United States. The official total of nuclear tests has since risen to more than 2,000 and U.S. leads the list with 1,032 explosions.
Plutonium stockpiles reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna reveal that the stockpile of weapon-usable plutonium continues to grow dramatically and that controls to stem such growth are virtually non-existant.
Perkin-Elmer Corp. said it will join one of the leading researchers in the U.S. in a bold venture to speed up the decoding of human genes. Perkin-Elmer, a Norwalk, Connecticut, scientific instrument maker that recently moved into the genetic-sequencing field, said it signed letters of intent with J.Craig Venter and …
Vast solar tornadoes, as wide as the Earth and gusting at up to 500,000 kilometres an hour, have been discovered by the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft.
