Air pollution is a complex and multifaceted issue. Cleaning up our air can be a secret weapon in addressing some of society’s biggest challenges together, from public health to climate change, children’s development and sustainable economic growth. By working together, have a golden opportunity to make action on air pollution …
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. The tone of the language suggesting that Tehran continues to stonewall the IAEA revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt …
M.R. Srinivasan 123 agreement specifically recognises the continuing existence of India's strategic programme. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, spoke recently at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai. For the first time, he openly endorsed India entering into civil nuclear energy cooperation with the United States of America and …
Trouble appears to be brewing amongst the Asian nations, including India, with China building a massive strategic underground submarine naval base that could house N-submarines and a host of aircraft carriers on Hainan Island. in South China Sea, south of Hong Kong. The base, being built near the holiday resort …
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran's suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained "a matter of serious concern' and that Iran continued to owe the agency "substantial explanations.' I.A.E.A. and Iran (iaea.org)The nine-page report accused the Iranians of …
Former US president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state's atomic arsenal. Asked at a news conference at Wales' Hay literary festival yesterday how a future US president should deal with the Iranian nuclear …
An analysis of new commercial satellite photos has identified a larger deployment of medium range nuclear missiles in Central China with the capability to attack Russia and north India including New Delhi, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has reported. A study by Hans Kristensen concedes that the deployment is …
Women and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles usually don't go together. But, breaking the glass ceiling in a typical male bastion, a woman scientist will now head a key missile project of the country. Tessy Thomas, 45, will now be the project director for the new advanced version of the 2,500-km range …
Kalam puts up his hand in support of the nuclear deal Former president Abdul Kalam, a founder of the Indian missile programme and a person committed to a vision of India as an active player in the international system, has been attacked by some for having allegedly abandoned the idea …
It's the 10th anniversary of the nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1998 that forever changed the way India and the rest of the world perceived each other. But the date has been marked only by newspapers and magazines who love anniversaries. It's not on the official anniversary agenda of the …
Buoyed By Agni-III Success, DRDO Seeks To Complete N-Triad By '11 By 2010-2011, India hopes to gatecrash into a very exclusive club of countries, which have both ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles) as well as BMD (ballistic missile defence) capabilities. Only the US and Russia strictly …
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam was on Sunday all praise for the "courage' shown by then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in deciding to go for Pokhran tests within weeks of assuming office in March 1998. "Vajpayee gave us the permission within a week of assuming the political office, …
Activists of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) on Saturday demanded that India and Pakistan roll back their nuclear weapons programme and divert the "colossal funds' wasted on the arms race to development, education and people's welfare. The activists, accompanied …
by K. Subrahmanyam I was a Consulting Editor of The Times of India on the day when the "Shakti' tests were conducted. A long-time friend of mine, who had been associated with me in campaigning for India exercising its nuclear option for over three decades, holding a high-level position, rang …
A traumatic scene opens up. From a silent abettor of Pakistan's nuclear strivings in the eighties and early nineties, American policy-making has made a sharp u-turn. It has become jittery over the fate of the Pakistani nuclear stockpile and wants to position itself in the role of a policeman watching …
A UN Security Council resolution prohibits the export of nucleargrade graphite, a key material needed for the manufacture of a nuclear bomb, to Iran. A Mumbai-based export firm was allegedly caught doing precisely that by an alert customs officer in October 2007. It was issued a showcause notice by the …
Pakistan on Monday testfired the Shaheen-II long-range ballistic missile for the second time in three days. The missile can carry nuclear and conventional warheads and hit targets deep inside India. The Shaheen-II or Hatf-VI surface-tosurface nuclear capable missile, which has a range of 2,000 km, was launched for the first …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday test-fired a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads and hitting targets within India. The test-firing of the Shaheen-II or Hatf-VI surface-to-surface ballistic missile the first missile test since Pakistan's new government assumed office last month was witnessed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza …
