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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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  Japan to restart world's biggest nuclear plant after 12 years of Fukushima disaster I VIDEO

  World | December 27, 2023 9:43 IST

  Tepco has been eager to bring the world's largest atomic power plant back online to slash operating costs, but a resumption still needs local consent in Niigata prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast.

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  Russia hits back at Biden over nuclear weapon deployments, says 'Don't lecture us'

  World | May 28, 2023 11:18 IST

  Russia said on Thursday that it was moving forward with the first deployment of these weapons outside of its borders since 1991, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said the weapons were already moving.

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  Technology Day: PM Modi to lay foundation stone of LIGO-India project today

  India | May 11, 2023 0:03 IST

  Technology Day: PM Modi will also dedicate to the nation a Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre campus at Visakhapatnam and a Fission Moly-99 Production Facility in Mumbai.

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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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  Russia-Ukraine war: Putin observes country's nuclear strategic drills

  World | October 26, 2022 20:40 IST

  Russia-Ukraine war: The Kremlin said in a statement that all tasks set for the exercise were fulfilled and all the missiles that were test-fired reached their designated targets.

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  Putin monitors drills of country's strategic nuclear forces: Reports

  India | October 26, 2022 17:53 IST

  Russia-Ukraine war: The Kremlin said in a statement that all tasks set for the exercise were fulfilled and all the missiles that were test-fired reached their designated targets.

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  Nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant carries successful launch of ballistic missile

  India | October 14, 2022 20:22 IST

  INS Arihant successful launch: It said all operational and technological parameters of the weapon system have been validated, seen as a major milestone to further boost India's strategic strike capabilities.

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  Fears of a radiation leak mount near Ukrainian nuclear plant

  World | August 26, 2022 23:08 IST

  Russia-Ukraine war: The move came a day after the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of what officials said was fire damage to a transmission line. The incident heightened dread of a nuclear disaster in a country still haunted by the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl.

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  Russia Ukraine war: Germany argues over nuclear shutdown amid gas supply worries

  World | July 31, 2022 20:36 IST

  Russia Ukraine war: Russia has reduced natural gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity amid tensions over the war in Ukraine.

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  Tensions soar after Russia's nuclear drill, shelling attacks on Ukrainian troops amid invasion fears

  World | February 20, 2022 20:57 IST

  Western leaders warned that Russia was poised to attack its neighbor, which is surrounded on three sides by about 150,000 Russian soldiers, warplanes and equipment. Russia held nuclear drills Saturday in neighboring Belarus and has ongoing naval drills off the coast in the Black Sea.

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  PM Jacinda Ardern says Australian nuclear subs will be banned from New Zealand waters

  India | September 16, 2021 9:00 IST

  Ardern welcomed the "increased engagement of UK and US" in the Pacific region as the countries announced a new security pact with Australia.

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  India says it doesn't support treaty on nuclear-weapon prohibition

  India | January 23, 2021 8:25 IST

  As the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons entered into force, India said on Friday that it does not support the treaty and shall not be bound by any of the obligations that may arise from it.

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  India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations

  India | January 01, 2021 19:19 IST

  The exchange of the list came amid frosty ties between the two countries over the Kashmir issue as well as cross-border terrorism.

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  Iran's top scientist linked to military nuclear program 'assassinated'

  World | November 27, 2020 22:54 IST

  Iranian state television is reporting that a scientist that Israel has alleged led a military nuclear program in early 2000s has been "assassinated."

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  Canada accidentally sends nuke warning to citizens

  World | January 13, 2020 12:28 IST

  Canadian government officials sent a push notification of an apparent nuke warning to the citizens of Ontario district. People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to a cellphone alert warning them of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message was a mistake.

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  Iran to further cut nuke commitments in next 2 days

  World | November 05, 2019 7:42 IST

  Since May, Iran has made three moves to build stockpiles of nuclear fuel and enrich low-grade uranium to a higher level of purity, and has started up advanced centrifuges to boost the country's stockpile of enriched uranium, which had been restricted by the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).  

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  US urges world powers to reject Iran's 'nuclear extortion'

  World | July 10, 2019 21:36 IST

  The US admonished world powers seeking to preserve a deal with Iran on its atomic program on Wednesday not to give in to "nuclear extortion" from Tehran, which has breached the pact's limitations in recent days in an attempt to get them to provide economic incentives to offset American sanctions.

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  Lesser known facts about Chernobyl, second biggest Nuclear disaster history has ever seen

  June 07, 2019 10:41 IST

  HBO's mini-series Chernobyl depicts the catastrophic nuclear disaster happened in Ukraine, Chernobyl and the stories of its victims.

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  HWB to supply heavy water in India for non-nuclear use

  Science | March 26, 2019 12:24 IST

  Presently deuterated compounds are imported in the country. We intend to make heavy water available for the Indian companies to produce them indigenously at much lower costs: HWB Chairman and Chief Executive U. Kamachi Mudali