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 …
In what is considered a major disarmament milestone, the five nuclear weapons states have decided to make public their plutonium stocks in civilian nuclear facilites and manage these by agreed standards.
China's water resource sector has great potential to grab a larger share of international markets. So far, China has five units engaged in developing international cooperation with overseas investors in water resource development.
The country's defence scientists have been given the green signal to work on the second phase of the Agni intermediate range ballistic missile, said sources at the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO).
Even after the cold war, the US nuclear weapons programme costs $ 35.1 billion annually- to maintain the nuclear weapons and to clean up its human and environmental after effects, a liberal-think tank said.
Two famous surgeons Henery Grissin (Scotland) and Paul Gindoff (Washington) who produced the world's first cloned sheep "Dolly" will be participating in the international seminar on cloning to be held at Jaipur on April 9.
Iraq has arrested the scientist widely considered the father of Baghdad's germ weapons programme as he was preparing to flee the country. His arrest "deals a significant blow to the UN inspectors who have spent much of the last seven years trying to determine the scale and killing power of …
India's nuclear weapons, in all probability, will be delivered by its Anglo-Rench Jaguar or Mirage-2000 squadrons, if not the Russian Sukhoi-30. For a similar mission, Pakistan will rely on the Fench Mirage 111 and V attack aircraft, if not the F-16. This is stated in the recent findings of the …
The US military has had authority to use nuclear weapons on its own if it cannot reach the President in an emergency during the time of Eisenhower, according to declassifed documents.
The US department of energy will start a series of underground explosive tests on radioactive plutonium next week. Washington says the tests do not violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty but opponents said they undermine the spirit and could provide other countries with a pretext for conducting similar experiments at …
The controversial Narmada project has again emerged as a dominant issue in Gujarat after the BJP's ascent to power at the Centre. This is likiely to pit Gujarat against Madhya Pradesh, now under the congress' rule. The newly appointed Keshubhai Patel government announced its decision to complete the multi-core project, …
Spurred by recent disclosures of Iraq's germ warfare capability, Britain announced a new European Union initiative to speed talks in Geneva to legally binding measures to detect and deter possession of biological weapons. The initiative establishes a common position by the 15 EU member states on verification procedures needed to …
A defector from the former Soviet biological weapons program says that Moscow's Cold War plans for World War III included preparing 'hundreds of tons' of anthrax bacteria and scores of tons of smallpox and plague viruses.
The Wullar Lake, the largest fresh water lake of Asia, is losing its charm and beauty due to pollution and encroachments. Significant ecological changes are threatening its basic function as a reservoir of floods. The lake is shrinking in size. People living along its shore have built bundhs, planted willows …
The city's perennial water shortage notwithstanding, the municipal corporation has allowed 78 fully- constructed tubewells to remain non- functional . MCD's reason: these tubewells have not been provided with electricity connections and so these cannot operate.
A United Nations report warned yesterday that Baghdad could produce as much as 200 tonnes of the deadly nerve agent VX . In two draft documents, a team of international experts also reported limited progress in accounting for Iraq's declared special warheads for chemical and biological weapons.
Toxic gases released by a possible American bomb strike on large chemical dumps in Iraq might affect areas up to Jammu and Kashmir, Russia's Meteorological Department today warned.
Europe's oil industry warned yesterday it could face billions of dollars of extra costs after the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for toughening targets on air quality.
Britain told Iraq that any retaliation for air strikes with chemical or biological weapons would lead to a heavy rsponse by allied forces. Robin Cook, foreign secretary, linked the warning with a disclosure that US and UK air strikes would be targeted at Iraqi installations containing biological and chemical agents-but …
The United Nations is getting ready to fight a potentially new global threat-nuclear terrorism. A UN ad hoc committee will begin a two week session later this month to formulate a new international convention specifically aimed at nuclear terrorists.
