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New Delhi: Tessy Thomas can take a bow as ‘Agni Putri’, or the daughter of fire, proving as she has her mettle as the project director of the 3,500-km new-generation Agni-IV missile that was successfully test-fired on Tuesday. Having systematically broken gender barriers in the decidedly male preserve of strategic …
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 …
Nearly eight months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, Japan is resuming steps it hopes will lead to exports of commercial nuclear technology to India and Vietnam, even as Japan itself is scaling back the use of nuclear energy at home. On Saturday, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and his Indian …
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 …
Australia and India are in a secret “dialogue” to allow the sale of uranium to New Delhi despite Canberra’s declared policy of opposing sales to non-NPT signatories, a media report claimed today. “The two nations have already begun a dialogue that is likely to canvass the uranium sale if Labor …
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 …
South Korea and the United States are adamant that there will be no food relief for crisis-hit North Korea until it guarantees that all aid will reach the most needy and there is an improvement in ties between the two Koreas. China, the only ally of the secretive Stalinist state, …
A DC-based think tank has used evidence of construction activity visible on freely available Google Earth satellite images to argue that India's uranium enrichment programme is being expanded. Releasing satellite imagery of the Rare Materials Plant (RMP) near Mysore on Wednesday, the Institute for Science and International Security said an …
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 …
The UN nuclear agency said Wednesday it is “increasingly concerned’’ about a stream of intelligence information suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program. In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said “many member …
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 …
