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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tehran:The malicious Stuxnet computer worm has hit 30,000 industrial computers in Iran, officials said on Sunday, but denied the Islamic republic

In what is being seen as a counter to the India-US nuclear deal, China has taken the next significant step on the sale of two nuclear reactors, Chashma 3 & 4, to Pakistan by officially communicating to the IAEA on Tuesday that it intends to go ahead with the deal under a 2003 agreement.

The US is believed to have expressed reservations and said that this sale is beyond the scope of the agreemen