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New York, Jan 9 (DPA) The world community has a ‘new window of opportunity’ to advance disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation programmes in 2010, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
Ban cited the review conference scheduled in May of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a major event. The NPT regulates nuclear programmes of countries that [...]
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Beijing, Jan 5 (DPA) China Tuesday said it still favoured more international talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, one day after the US said it had discussed possible new sanctions against Tehran.
‘Dialogue and negotiation are the right way of properly solving the Iran nuclear issue, and there is still room for diplomatic efforts,’ foreign ministry spokeswoman [...]
Tehran, Dec. 30 (ANI): In the midst of the Iranian government’s bloody crackdown on protestors, US Senator John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit that country.
On Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the parliament is considering the Massachusetts Democrat’s proposal.
“The legislative officials are studying the case and they are [...]
Islamabad, Dec.30 (ANI) : Pakistan has denied reports suggesting that it had transferred nuclear know-how’s to North Korea .
Referring to an article published in The Washington Post on December 28 titled,”Pakistani scientist depicts [...]
Tehran, Dec 30 (DPA) Iran Tuesday again rejected a deadline for the end of this year set by the world powers on a uranium enrichment deal.
‘Actually we have a deadline and our deadline is that if no proper response is received (from the world powers) on the deal, then we will go on with further [...]
Tehran, Dec 18 (DPA) The new generation of Iran’s uranium-enrichment centrifuges is to be ready by March 2011, the head of Iran’s Atomic Organiszation said Friday.
Ali Akbar Salehi told the Fars news agency that the new centrifuges – named IR3 and IR4 – were currently being produced and that after a test period, they would [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (DPA) Iran’s test of a medium-range missile raises questions about Tehran’s peaceful ambitions in the region and the nature of its nuclear programme, the US State Department said Wednesday.
Iran announced that it had successfully tested an upgraded Sejil 2 missile, which has a range of more than 2,000 kilometres, enough to hit [...]
Shenzhen (China), Dec. 16 (ANI): China’s plan to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world has raised safety concerns.
While the construction 10 nuclear reactors each year has a potential to help slow global warming, the breakneck pace of the project has raised some serious [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (ANI): Visiting Italian Minister for Economic Development, Claudio Scajola has said that Italy has promised to cooperate with India to double the latter’s nuclear energy production.
Talking to reporters here at a joint news conference with Union Commerce and Industry Minister [...]
Washington, Dec.14 (ANI): Confidential intelligence documents show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.
According to The Times, which accessed the documents related to Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, found a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of [...]
Washington, Dec. 12 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes that the “time has come” for “the international community to speak with one voice” to condemn Iran’s nuclear program.
In a taped interview with Al Jazeera, Clinton told the network the Obama administration hoped to “work with others” to tackle issues such as nuclear proliferation [...]
Washington, December 9 (ANI): Proposals are being worked upon at the Copenhagen summit to cut the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, prominent among which is the use of nuclear energy.
A broad scientific consensus predicts that climate change will worsen dramatically when the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere rises above 450 [...]
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) India cannot be accused of kowtowing to any foreign country, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Saturday, defending India’s vote for the IAEA censure resolution against Iran.
India had Friday voted in favour of the resolution at Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency against Iran over its nuclear programme, [...]
London, Nov 28 (IANS) Nuclear power could meet all our energy needs but leaves dangerous radioactive waste. Now, a team led by an Indian scientist has developed a new method to reduce the amount of this waste considerably.
The disposal of the old core rods and also reactor operation results in a large amount of low-level [...]
Port of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): Explaining its position on why it supported the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution to prevent Iran from developing a uranium-enrichment facility in secrecy, official sources in the Indian delegation accompanying Prime MinisterManmohan [...]
Vienna, Nov 27 (DPA) The row over Iran’s nuclear programme came one step closer to escalating Friday, as the country threatened to reduce its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in reaction to a resolution censuring the Islamic republic.
The decision adopted by the IAEA’s governing board said Iran had breached UN Security Council [...]
Vienna (Austria), Nov.27 (ANI): India on Friday supported the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog’s governing body’s resolution that prevents Iran from developing a uranium-enrichment facility in secrecy.
On Friday, IAEA voted overwhelmingly [...]
Tehran, Nov 27 (DPA) Iran warned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Friday not to use threatening language against Tehran, as the UN nuclear guardian’s board was set to take action on Iran for the first time since 2006.
‘We recommend the IAEA not to refer to such methods and use the language of logic rather [...]
Vienna, Nov 26 (DPA) International pressure mounted on Iran Thursday at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna at which six world powers sought a vote on a resolution censuring Tehran for secretly building a new nuclear site.
As the 12-year tenure of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei comes to a close Monday, [...]
Vienna, Nov 26 (DPA) The dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme showed no sign of abating as diplomats gathered at the International Atomic Energy Agency Thursday for a meeting that would be the last under IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
The IAEA’s board of governors was set to vote on a resolution drafted by six world powers that [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari Tuesday said that the response of Indian politicians to terror attacks has been very ’squeamish’ and a change needs to be brought in their mindset on security issues.
Tewari was speaking at a seminar organised by the National Maritime Foundation on ‘India’s coastal and internal security post [...]
Tehran, Nov 24 (DPA) Tehran has warned that if a uranium exchange deal proposed by the international community failed, Iran would enrich uranium by itself, the official news agency IRNA reported.
‘If the uranium for the Tehran reactor is not provided via the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), then we will perform the enrichment process at [...]
Canada and India have been reluctant dance partners in decades past for reasons ranging from a heated disagreement on nuclear non-proliferation to Cold War-era divergences to name but two.It is only in recent years that Ottawa has expressed an interest to make New Delhi one of its international priorities and is seeking to re-develop a [...]
Berlin/Brussels, Nov 20 (DPA) Top diplomats from the so-called ‘5+1′ group of world powers expressed disappointment Friday at Iran’s rejection of a compromise deal on the country’s controversial nuclear programme and urged its leaders to reconsider.
‘We urge Iran to reconsider the opportunity offered by this agreement to meet the humanitarian needs of its people and [...]
Brussels, Nov 19 (DPA) Top diplomats from the so-called ‘5+1′ group of world powers were to meet in Brussels Friday to discuss how to respond to Iran’s refusal to reach a nuclear deal, diplomats said Thursday.
Officials from the UN Security Council’s five permanent members – Britain, China, France, Russia and the US – plus Germany [...]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the recipient of the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2009 for her contribution to the promotion of democracy and pluralism.
An announcement by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Thursday said Sheikh Hasina embarked on her ‘Vision 2021′, aimed at [...]
Vienna, Nov 19 (DPA) An Iranian diplomat threatened Wednesday to withhold cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s probe of a new nuclear site if the IAEA pushes too hard for information, participants at an agency meeting in Vienna said.
Iran’s Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh reacted angrily to the watchdog’s questions about the origin and purpose [...]
Tehran, Nov 18 (DPA) Iran will not send its enriched uranium abroad for further processing, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday, rejecting an internationally negotiated compromise deal.
Talking to the ISNA news agency, Mottaki said that Iran would, however, consider a nuclear fuel swap inside the country.
Mottaki gave no details, but Iranian experts believe Tehran [...]
Vienna, Nov 18 (DPA) The world’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), conducted a second inspection of a Syrian reactor Tuesday – a day after the agency made clear it was not satisfied with Syria’s explanation about uranium particles found there.
The IAEA is trying to find out whether the country has a covert [...]
Washington, Nov 17 (ANI): The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the release of sexually sterile male insects to wipe out a pest population, could be a potential solution to the problem of malaria, reveals a new study.
The study reviewed the history of the [...]
