Vienna: A UN watchdog report is expected to show that Iran has installed more uranium enrichment centrifuges at an underground site, potentially boosting output capacity of nuclear work major powers want it to stop, Western diplomatic sources say. Two sources said the Islamic state may have placed in position nearly 350 machines since February - in addition to the almost 700 centrifuges already operating at the Fordow facility - but...
02:45 AM, May 24, 2012
Washington: Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a US institute claimed on Tuesday. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site began last summer and reflects North Korean determination to expand its rocket program. The US and other nations...
03:58 AM, May 23, 2012
Seoul: North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported on Thursday. Based on April 30 satellite images, work halted in December at the reactor had now re-started, said the website, run by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and former US State Department official Joel Wit....
05:29 PM, May 17, 2012
London: The British military would deploy "sonic weapon" - the US-made Long Range Acoustic Device - in London during the Olympics which starts in July, a Ministry of Defence spokesman has announced. The spokesman said: "As part of the military contribution to the police led security effort to ensure a safe and secure games, a broad range of assets and equipment is being used by our armed forces. "This includes...
04:28 AM, May 13, 2012
Hyderabad: The weapon system and defence technology developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are competitive and there is huge scope for exporting them, a top defence scientist said in Hyderabad. "Our technology and the weapon system are competitive. There is tremendous export potential ...but we have to first make sure we have real output in terms of numbers and quality," DRDO chief VK Saraswat told reporters on the...
07:07 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Bangalore: Effects of instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan will be felt in India and the next two years are crucial watershed years for the country's security, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said on Saturday. "2013 and 2014 are crucial watershed years as far as India's security is concerned in the backdrop of instability writ large in Afghanisthan and Pakistan," he said delivering Air Chief Marshal LM Khatre Memorial lecture here....
09:09 PM, Apr 28, 2012
FPS Russia, a popular YouTube show, on its latest episode displays a weapon that could appeal to India's counter-insurgency forces - a flying machine gun. This deadly contraption has a sub-machine gun fitted with a 100-round magazine mounted on a quadrotor that can fly at speeds of 50 kmph and at altitudes of about 400 metres. It is also fitted with a camera, so that the operator can get a...
12:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Moscow: Russia's military leadership has for the first time acknowledged a nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea. "The threat is always there, so we closely monitor the nuclear programme developments of many countries," Army General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the General Staff, told RT television. "The analysis that we conducted together with the Americans confirms that, yes, there is a probability that the threat exists. And we agreed...
02:44 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Balasore: India on Thursday successfully test-fired the 5000-km range surface-to-surface Agni-V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of covering entire China and reaching deep into Europe. Agni-V has helped India gatecrash into a small and exclusive club of nations with intercontinental ballistic missile capability. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh congratulated scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful launch of Agni-V. "DRDO and other organisations have worked...
08:23 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Balasore: India will enter an exclusive league of nations with a nuclear-capable weapon system with a range of over 5,000-km in its arsenal with first test of the Agni V missile planned on Wednesday. The DRDO will be test firing the Agni V missile from Wheeler Island in Odisha. The missile has a range of 5,000 kilometres, a marked improvement over India's current missiles which can hit potential enemy targets...
06:06 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Dubai: Iran is ready to resolve all nuclear issues in the next round of talks with world powers if the West starts lifting sanctions, its foreign minister said on Monday. In an interview with the Iranian student news agency ISNA, Ali Akbar Salehi also hinted that Iran could make concessions on its higher-grade uranium enrichment; a key concern of Western powers which suspect Iran is covertly developing a nuclear weapons...
03:32 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Washington: Estimated to have more nuclear weapons than India, Pakistan is rapidly developing and expanding its atomic arsenal, spending about $ 2.5 billion a year to develop such weapons, a report has said. "Pakistan has been rapidly developing and expanding its nuclear arsenal, increasing its capacity to produce plutonium, and testing and deploying a diverse array of nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles," said the report 'Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Modernisation...
09:15 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Islamabad: The new Special Response Force created to protect Pakistan's nuclear arsenal held a passing out parade on Monday, with a top official saying that "all available resources" had been put in place to effectively guard the strategic assets. The newly raised Special Response Force will be part of the security force of the Strategic Plans Division, which is responsible for maintaining the nuclear arsenal. The passing out parade at...
03:58 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Amid allegations of bribery in purchases and complaints of gaps in preparedness, Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday asked the army to streamline its purchase process in a manner that accountability can be fixed in the event of slippages. This was conveyed by Antony to the army brass led by its chief Gen VK Singh at a meeting to review the army's capital acquisition and revenue expenditure proposals...
02:02 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation, said he is trying to make the world a better place to live. He spoke to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar in an exclusive interview for the global affairs show World View. Here's the transcript. SH: Welcome to the special interview here on Worldview. Now he was called Captain Outrageous once but now he's more of Captain Planet because when Ted Turner puts his ...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012
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