Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush embarked on a joint venture today to build a forward-looking partnership between India and the United States.
Beginning a process which

In Britain's worst nuclear accident in 13 years, about 83,000 litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe in the controversial Thorp reprocessing

An international conference seeking to shore up the treaty that is the centrepiece of efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons ended in failure, sunk by arguments between Iran, Egypt and the US.

Pakistan's medium-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile Shaheen II takes off from an undisclosed location in this March 9, 2004 file photo. On March 19, 2005, Pakistan successfully test-fired its

Akash, India's surface-to-air missile, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, near Balasore, Orissa on Monday. It showed consistency in full flight,

The world needs an effort similar to that behind the creation of the atomic bomb to tackle the multi-faceted threat of biowarfare, US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. "We need to do something

Trishul, India's most sophisticated short range surface-to-air missile, was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, about 15 km from here today, defence sources said. Indigenously

Indian scientist Saji Abraham has been awarded the NASA Peer Award for developing emission models that would "play a critical role" in two future space

Boosting its missile technology capabilities, India today successfully testfired the supersonic cruise land-to-land BrahMos missile in the Pokharan test ranges in Rajasthan. It becomes the only

In a major breakthrough, North Korea today agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons and programmes and rejoin the Non-Proliferation Treaty, accept inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency