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 …
US President Bill Clinton has been nominated for the 1998 Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to protect world peace and promote democracy, three Norwegian legislators announced on Tuesday.
A pilot project on vehicle pollution control is to be undertaken by a non-governmental organisation, Nature Soule (Saviour of Unpolluted Life on Earth) from January 27.
China and Russia on Thursday made a strong bid to close the nuclear weapons file on Iraq, believing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had come up with no new information.
The United States has formally certified China has met nuclear non-proliferation requirements, smoothing the way for U.S. industry to seek orders for China's nuclear power programme, the White House said.
A United Nations weapons inspection team whose chief, American Scott Ritter, was accused by Iraq of being a US spy, is leaving Baghdad today giving Iraq a moral vicotry in its current face-off with Washington.
Seeking to deflect criticism that the UN weapons inspection programme is Anglo-American dominated, chief UN weapons inspector Richard Butler said he is adding three Chinese arms experts to his team in Iraq.
The Pentagon has admitted for the first time that thousands of Gulf war soldiers may have been exposed to toxic depleted uranium. A report by Bernard Rostker, special assistant for Gulf war illnesses, has revealed that the US and British forces used more than one million DU armour-piercing rounds during …
The United States has conducted non-explosive nuclear tests in the deserts of Nevada, a department of energy spokesperson said. The test, conducted on Saturday, was a sub-critical experiment designed to obtain data on the effects of aging on material in nuclear weapons, said DoE spokeswoman Brooke Anderson. "The experiments are …
People in Bhopal can now quench their thirst as Rs 105 crores have been sanctioned for a water supply scheme, earmarked for the people of Indore, Guna and the metropolis. Inaugurating the 33rd all-India mayor's conference in Bhopal, Union minister for urban development Dattatreya Bandaru said that he was happy …
India has firmly rejected artificial deadlines the Unites States has been trying to set for New Delhi to sign the CTBT by attempting to link it to President Bill Clinton's visit to India, it is learnt.
India is preparing to accept the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) without actually signing it. India diplomats in Geneva are negotiating with key nuclear weapons powers an unprecedented and unique arrangement, under which New Delhi will deposit with the UN a commitment to abide by the provision of CTBT, even …
A global treaty banning landmines has become the international law after it was ratified by 40 countries, a spokesman for the Bonel Prize winning group which fought to create it said. The West Africa state of Burkine Faso ratified the treaty yesterday, achieving the trigger number of signatories which would …
France said on Wednesday that it recognises India as a nuclear weapons state and that New Delhi is the "best candidate" for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. "We recognise facts and it is a fact that your country (India) is very advanced in the nuclear field... …
India and Pakistan exaggerated the number and size of the nuclear weapons that each nation detonated earlier this year, overstating the power of the bombs by a factor of four, according to the first independent scientific accounting of the tests. The study was conducted by Terry Wallace, an authority in …
Reiterating that the government had approved development of the second phase of the Agni intermediate range ballistic missile with an enhanced range, defence minister George Fernandes on Tuesday said that efforts were on to ensure that there were no adverse effect of the sanctions on the missile programme which is …
The Conference on Disarmament announced in Geneva an agreement to create a special group to negotiate a treaty banning the output of fissile material for nuclear purposes. The decision to create an ad hoc committee to negotiate a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) was announced at a special session of …
The Umatilla Chemical Depot, which covers 20,000 acres of land of arid eastern Oregon, contains 3,717 tons of material, stored in 89 highly secured earth-covered bunkers. No chemical shipments were received after 1969, but by law these stockpiles cannot be now moved anywhere else. Officials at Umatilla must decide how …
The Delhi government plans to file a review petition before the Supreme Court asking for some more time to phase out all commercial vehicles older than 15 years. By doing so, it will be taking up cudgels on the behalf of transporters, who have also been planning to file a …
The government will announce a new hydro power policy next month to rectify the growing imbalances in the thermal-hydel power mix by adding about 10,000 MW in the current Plan (1997-2002) . The addition will help bridge the widening gap in the demand and supply of power in the country.
