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  'India's PM Narendra Modi, China's Xi Jinping helped avert nuclear crisis in Ukraine in 2022: Report

  World | March 11, 2024 12:05 IST

  Regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict, India has always condemned civilian killings and called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. In a major statement, PM Modi told President Putin that "this is not the era of war".

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  Pakistan claims Chinese ship which India seized was carrying 'commercial goods', not nuclear weapons

  World | March 03, 2024 13:33 IST

  Pakistan Foreign Office claimed that the intended recipient of the seized machinery was identified as Cosmos Engineering, a Karachi-based firm that manufactures automobile parts and home appliances.

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  North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders his forces to accelerate war preparations as tensions escalate

  World | December 28, 2023 9:40 IST

  Speaking on the policy directions for the new year at a key meeting of the country's ruling party on Wednesday, Kim also said Pyongyang would expand strategic cooperation with "anti-imperialist independent" countries.

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  North Korea: Kim Jong Un warns of 'nuclear attack' if US or South Korea provoke with nukes

  World | December 21, 2023 8:25 IST

  Kim said the launch demonstrated the evolution of the North's nuclear doctrine and strategy “not to hesitate even with a nuclear attack when the enemy provokes it with nukes".

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  North Korea simulates 'scorched earth' nuclear strikes on South Korea, rehearses occupation of rival

  World | August 31, 2023 17:40 IST

  In the latest confrontation, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday after the US reportedly flew a B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula during joint exercises with South Korea.

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  US's Blinken praises India's direct engagement in stalling use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine war

  World | February 24, 2023 19:25 IST

  The top US official said that America also approached other nations such as China and India to soft-soap Russia with their diplomatic leverage and added the results were positive.

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  CIA chief praises PM Modi's efforts for lowering nuke threat in Russia-Ukraine war

  World | December 19, 2022 11:17 IST

  CIA chief praises PM Modi: A top official of the American intelligence agency has praised the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in lowering the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons against Ukraine during the ongoing conflict.

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  China sends 18 nuclear-capable bomber aircraft into Taiwan’s air defence zone

  World | December 13, 2022 18:47 IST

  China-Taiwan tension: Amid soaring tension between China and Taiwan, Beijing on Tuesday sent at least 18 nuclear-capable H-6 bomber aircraft into Taiepi's air defence zone.

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  North Korea's nuclear forces will 'annihilate' South if it provokes, warns Kim Jong Un's sister

  World | April 05, 2022 10:51 IST

  North Korea may up the ante in the coming months, possibly test-flying missiles over Japan or resuming nuclear explosive tests, as it tries to get a response from the Biden administration, which is distracted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and an intensifying rivalry with China.

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  EXPLAINER: How dangerous was Russia’s nuclear plant strike?

  World | March 04, 2022 15:54 IST

  Mitsuru Fukuda, a professor at Nihon University in Tokyo and expert on crisis management and security, said the Zaporizhzhia attack raises broader questions for all countries.

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  Never Again: Nagasaki mourns victims of nuclear bomb attack that took place 75 years ago | Photos

  World | August 09, 2020 22:09 IST

  Nagasaki was scene of pure carnage exactly 75 years ago when nuclear bomb was dropped on the city that resulted in killing of 80,000 people. Allied powers, led by the US and UK were fighting Japan, the last axis power that was fighting them in last months of Second World War.

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  No change in nuclear policy: Pakistan Army brushes away Imran Khan's peace statement

  India | September 03, 2019 13:55 IST

  A 22-year-old private security guard allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday morning by jumping before a train at a metro station here, officials said.

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  Trump attacks North Korea's Kim Jong, says 'even my table has a nuclear button, and it works too'

  World | January 03, 2018 12:16 IST

  "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one

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  Social media trends to be analysed to ensure security at airports, nuclear bases

  India | October 22, 2017 15:31 IST

  Social media trends and data analytics will be used for the first time in ensuring and monitoring the security at the country's most vital assets such as airports and nuclear and aerospace installations.

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  Nuclear attack threat at highest level, says UN Chief

  World | September 19, 2017 20:34 IST

  In his first state-of-the-world report since taking the reins of the United Nations on Jan. 1, Guterres put “nuclear peril” as the leading threat, warning that “we must not sleepwalk our way into war.”

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  Will launch nuclear attack against China if Donald Trump orders: US admiral

  World | July 27, 2017 13:11 IST

  The US Pacific Fleet commander said on Thursday he would launch a nuclear strike against China next week if President Donald Trump ordered it, and warned against the military ever shifting its allegiance from its commander in chief

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  India could launch nuclear weapons on Pakistan as pre-emptive attack, says nuclear expert

  India | March 21, 2017 14:50 IST

  In what would be a notable reversal of its well-known no-first use policy, India could launch a preemptive first strike against Pakistan if it feared that a nuclear attack was imminent, a leading nuclear strategist has said.

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  India prepares to face nuclear attacks, plans underground bunkers in major cities for protection against WMDs: Report

  India | October 19, 2016 13:02 IST

  India is reportedly planning to create underground control rooms in major Indian cities that could secure data and communication against an attack using Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) such as nuclear, chemical and biological.

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  ‘Who gave him right to speak about Kashmir’: Venkaiah Naidu slams Pak over Salahuddin’s ‘nuclear attack’ barb

  National | August 08, 2016 15:43 IST

  Union minister Venkaiah Naidu today lashed out at Pakistan over Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin’s threat of a nuclear attack on India over the Kashmir issue.

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  With Hiroshima, Obama goes where predecessors stayed away

  World | May 13, 2016 7:35 IST

  Washington:When President Barack Obama tours Hiroshima's haunting relics of nuclear warfare, he will be making a trip that past administrations weighed and avoided. For good reason: The hollowed core of the city's A-Bomb Dome and