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 United Nations' top nuclear official urged Iran to allow a visit by a high-level delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency to discuss growing evidence that Tehran has been developing the technologies to build atomic weapons. The United Nations' top atomic official, Yukiya Amano, wants access to key Iranian …
BALASORE: India on Tuesday added another feather in its strategic defence profile by successfully test launching a new generation missile Agni-IV, first of its kinds in the world, with a high accuracy, from a defence base off the Odisha coast. Having a strike range of over 3,000 km, this indegenously …
Giving a boost to its missile programme, India today successfully test-fired a new variant of the nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile with a strike range of 3,000 km from an island off Odisha coast. Now christened Agni-IV, the trial of the surface-to- surface intermediate range missile from a mobile launcher at …
Vienna: Iran has worked on developing an atomic bomb design and may still be conducting research relevant for such weapons, the UN nuclear watchdog said in its most detailed and hardest-hitting report on military dimensions to Tehran’s nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency document, which has been preceded by …
Iran is on the threshold of nuclear capability and has mastered critical steps needed to build a weapon after receiving assistance from a foreign scientist, a media report said. The country has overcome key technical hurdles with the help of a former Soviet weapon scientist and crucial technology linked to …
Friendly, but blunt. That will be the tone of the message from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to India. When NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko comes here later this month to meet with his counterparts in the Atomic Energy Commission and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, he would …
The India-US nuclear deal had virtually collapsed as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told President George W Bush it was not going to work and the entire administration had given up on it. “I called the President (Bush). ‘It isn’t going to work. Singh just can’t make it happen,’ I …
Pakistan on Friday conducted successful test fire of an indigenously developed multi-tube having stealth capabilities Cruise Missile Hatf-VII (Babur). Babur has a target range of 700 kms, said ISPR in a news release here. The missile test was conducted to validate the design parameters of the weapon system and a …
Many of Japan's political and intellectual leaders remain committed to nuclear power even as Japanese public opinion has turned sharply against it. One argument in favor rarely gets a public airing: Japan needs to maintain its technical ability to make nuclear bombs. "I don't think Japan needs to possess nuclear …
The Obama administration will hold two days of meetings with North Korea next week in a bid to resume a nuclear-disarmament process with Pyongyang that foundered in 2008. The meetings come as North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed a renewed interest this week in negotiating with the U.S. and …
Pakistan has urged "some major powers" to commence negotiations on the larger issue of nuclear disarmament instead of pushing for a treaty to ban production of fissile material used as fuel for atomic weapons, saying the treaty was a limited non-proliferation goal. Speaking in the General Assembly's main committee, Raza …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today echoed the fears being expressed internationally over the safety of nuclear arsenal in India’s neighbourhood. Without naming Pakistan, the Prime Minister, while addressing the top military commanders of the three forces here, said, “Nuclear proliferation and nuclear safety are serious threats in our neighbourhood.” What …
Meetings between the chief nuclear envoys of North and South Korea were “constructive,” negotiators said, even though the talks did not produce any breakthroughs on the longstanding impasse over the North’s refusal to give up its nuclear program. The talks on Wednesday, held at a private club in Beijing, were …
The top nuclear negotiators from North and South Korea plan to meet next week in Beijing to discuss terms of restarting the long-stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, a senior government official here said Friday. Wi Sung-lac, the South Korean envoy, and his North Korean …
Iran on Monday made its first counterproposal in two years to ease the confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, offering to allow international inspectors “full supervision” of the country’s nuclear activities for the next five years, but on the condition that the mounting sanctions against Iran are lifted. …
The United Nations' nuclear agency says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran has conducted experimental work to develop nuclear weapons, in particular on warheads to deliver nuclear payloads. In a report issued Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran has begun deploying so-called second-generation centrifuges at its largest …
Iran is moving its most critical nuclear fuel production to a heavily defended underground military facility outside the holy city of Qum, where it is less vulnerable to attack from the air and, the Iranians hope, the kind of cyberattack that crippled its nuclear program, according to intelligence officials. The …
A private member bill was placed in the parliament yesterday proposing enacting a law to make Bangladesh a nuclear weapons non-proliferation zone. Ruling Awami League lawmaker Saber Hossain Chowdhury placed the "Bangladesh Nuclear Weapons Non-proliferation Region Bill 2011" so that the people's safety is ensured. "Bangladesh should prohibit development, production, …
US will test flight today an unmanned rocket launched aircraft capable of attaining top speeds of 21,580 KPH as part of development of a new generation of hypersonic weapons that can strike faster than any missile. Daily Mail quoted US officials as saying the hypersonic vehicles being developed would take …
LUCKNOW: City youth on Saturday took out a campaign to promote the use of indigenous energy resources such as coal, gas, solar, wind energy, biogas, and ensuring future energy supplies from Iran and other countries of West and Central Asia. The campaign, titled 'Lessons from Japan 2011', was taken out …
