BrahMos Block-II test fired in Supersonic Dive mode | BrahMos is the first missile in the world to demonstrate this capability | BAE Systems bids for Indian Army's artillery gun order | India's next Moon mission will have 5 scientific instruments, and also a Lander and a Rover | BlackBerry agrees to set up server in India to allow interception, says Indian Home Ministry | India stops all military exhanges with China | Russia continues to dominate aircraft sales to India | IAF to buy 59 more Mi 17 V5 helicopters from Russia | India to buy Raytheon's Javelin anti-tank missile | India sets Aug 31 as deadline for RIM to meet its security interception requirement | Raytheon and US Navy use a high power, solid-state laser to shoot down 4 UAVs in tests | The laser was fired from ship-borne Phalanx Close-in Weapon System | Russia logs more combat aircraft sales with India | India's MoD could take a few months to finalize choice of MMRCA | IAF reports on 6 contenders are bulky and would need time for analysis and decision | IAF will formally display its C-130J Super Hercules in Feb 2011 | Arianespace will launch India's GSAT 10 in 2012, continuing its strong partnership with ISRO | Air India demands $ 840 million as compensation from Boeing for delay in Boeing 787 deliveries | An Air India team will visit the US shortly for discussions on Boeing 787 aircraft it has ordered | Indian Army and Air Force bring provide saving support to cloudburst victims in Jammu & Kashmir | Boeing promises future upgrades in F/A 18 E/F Super Hornet to IAF if aircraft selected in MMRCA competition | Russia's Mi 26 is in final stages of Heavy Lift helicopter field trials |
 Nuclear 
Bullet India to host Asian Nuclear Prospects conference in October
  September 2010
Chennai. Around 250 nuclear scientists, technologists and industrialists are expected to participate in the three-day Asian Nuclear Prospects 2010 conference to be held near here in October, according to a top official of atomic research unit here.
   
Bullet Pakistan's n-arsenal prevented war with India: A.Q. Khan
  September 2010
Washington. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has prevented a conventional war with India, ensuring "our survival, our security, and our sovereignty", besides making the "nation walk with head held high", boasts A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist considered the father of Islamabad's clandestine nuclear programme.
   
Bullet India, US reprocessing deal opens n-power market to US
  August 2010
Washington. India and the United States have taken another crucial step in implementing their landmark civil nuclear deal with the signing of an agreement on the nuclear fuel reprocessing arrangements under the accord.
   
Bullet Conventional to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear warfare
  April 2010
New Delhi. It is the constant endeavor of warring enemies to use new means to gain advantage over an adversary.
   
Bullet What is meant by Strategic Arms: Protocol to the new Russian-US START Treaty
  April 2010
Prague/ Moscow. The new START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) bilateral nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States was signed by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama on April 8, 2010 in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
   
Bullet As fuel supplies resume, India’s nuclear power output up
  January 2010
Thiruvananthapuram. India‘s atomic power generation has gone up 15 percent over the past few months, following the resumption of fuel supplies from abroad after the accord with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a top nuclear scientist has said.
   
Bullet Nuclear industry grows, but where are the components?
  January 2010
Chennai. The quick growth of the Indian nuclear industry is posing new challenges, especially for the delivery of components for new power plants, says Srikumar Banerjee, the new chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
   
Bullet India, Russia seal civil atomic cooperation, defence pacts
  December 2009
Moscow. Visiting India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have sealed a “broad based” agreement that will boost bilateral cooperation between the countries in the peaceful use of atomic energy.
   
No doubt about India's N-arsenal: Kakodkar
 

December 2009

New Delhi. Seeking to put to rest decisively any questions about India's nuclear deterrence, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar has robustly defended the 1998 nuclear tests, saying they were "perfect", and has assured the army that it should be "fully confident" about the nuclear arsenal at its command.

   
Workshop on Civil Liability in Nuclear Energy Production
 

December 2009

Abu Dhabi. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducted a workshop in Abu Dhabi on a civil nuclear liability for countries embarking on nuclear energy program.

   
Mao, Bhutto set terms of secret n-deal, reports The Washington Post
 

November 2009

Washington. The terms of a secret deal under which China transferred 50 kg of uranium to Pakistan in 1982 for making two atomic bombs were set in a mid-1976 conversation between Mao Zedong and then Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a leading US daily has reported.

   
World over-armed, peace under-funded: Ban Ki-moon
 

September 2009

Mexico City. Noting that disarmament is back on the global agenda, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has cautioned that the "world is over-armed and peace is under-funded".

   
India launches its first ballistic missile nuclear submarine
 

August 2009

On 26th July, 2009 in the presence of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, his wife, Mrs Gursharan Kaur, broke the traditional coconut on the bows of India’s ambitious scientific naval programme, the 6000 ton nuclear submarine called by the misnomer an Adavanced Technology Vessel (ATV) and named it INS Arihant.

   
Bullet Russia reforging its nuclear shield
 

December 2008

Moscow. The introduction of the RS-24 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) in 2009 will be the most important phase in the renewal of the Russian Strategic Missile Force (SMF) after the adoption of the Topol-M.

   
Bullet The Nuclear Deal and the Hullabaloo
 

October 2008

New Delhi. Now that the nuclear deal is done, one wonders what the noise was about, So much passion, such vast amount of energy and acres of newspaper space was spent on dissecting the whys of a deal that most people now say is in everyone’s’ interest.

   
Bullet Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Former NSA supports it, saying India must go ahead
 

June 2008

New Delhi. In a strong endorsement of the nuclear deal with the US, former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra has said that not signing it would be a “severe loss of face” for India.

   
Bullet Disarm, or You’ll Destroy The World
 

June 2008

New Delhi. Through an international conference hosted in New Delhi June 9-10, India sent a clear, renewed message to the world community that it must shed its nuclear weapons for the sake of the present and future generations.

   
Bullet Stalling Nuclear Deal Will Be A Historical Mistake
 

February 2008

New Delhi. There is widespread media speculation on the chances of the India-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards agreement being finalized and submitted to the board of governors. The issue that is being hotly debated is whether the Left parties will allow the safeguards agreement to be processed further by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government when the Indian delegation concludes the draft agreement with the IAEA.

   
Bullet Nuclear Power in Space, Part-I
 

November 2007

Moscow. Solar energy supplies most of power in spacecraft nowadays.

   
Bullet Nuclear Power in Space, Part-II
 

November 2007

Moscow. Nuclear power could greatly contribute to spacecraft capabilities.The Soviet Union first developed nuclear powered generators for spacecraft in the 1960s. Since 1970 it has launched more than 30 military radar satellites equipped with the Buk unit, which can generate up to 3 kW of electricity.

   
Bullet US firm offers India thorium reactors
 

October 2007

Bangalore. While India is still debating how to make the Indo-US nuclear deal work, an American company, anxious to enter the Indian market, has offered to build commercial nuclear power reactors in the country.

   
   
  
 
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