The Government has given the go ahead to the Army to raise a Agni Missile Strategic Group. The raising of this first visible land-based nuclear deterrence will commence in June 2002 and the group

Scientists have given warning that even if Britain spent billions on installing chemical sensors in every big city it might not be able to protect civilians from a largescale bio-terrorist attack.

It is heartening to note that Indian scientists are already in the process of setting up Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to tackle incidents of chemical-biological terrorism. With the Anthrax scare

Easily produced, germ weapons could wreak even greater chaos than suicide pilots in hijacked planes. Now there's evidence that Iraq, Iran, Libya, China, North Korea, Russia, Israel, Pakistan and

The Rajasthan Government has approved an ambitious project for reviving and renovating over 100 irrigation schemes to ensure that the irrigation waters reach the cultivators across the

China outlined proposals for a treaty banning the "weaponisation" of outer space, in a move intended to intensify pressure on the US to abandon controversial plans for a missile defence shield.

A high-level team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has opened negotiations in Pyongyang with fresh demands for access to nuclear weapons project that North Korea agreed to abandon seven

The Taiwanese Defence Minister, Mr. Wu Shih-wen, has said that Taiwan would test-fire the U.S.-made Pac-2 missile system in June, becoming the first foreign country to test-fire it on its own soil.

Iraq tested a bomb in 1987 that cast a radioactive cloud in the open air and was meant to cause vomiting, cancer, birth defects and slow death, according to a secret Iraqi report of the weapon's

The US Defence Department is studying whether to develop a new, low-yield nuclear weapon with an earth-penetrating nose cone that could knock out hardened or deeply buried targets such as leadership