Rupee plunge sees India turn to 2013 taper tantrum playbookIndia's central bank is considering measures to stabilize the rupee. The currency has fallen to a record low, increasing import costs. The ...
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From global pressure to ‘Operation Shakti’: PM Modi revisits India’s Pokhran momentPrime Minister Narendra Modi remembered the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests. He stated that the tests showcased India's talent and efficiency to...
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Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowUkraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster i...
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Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif says 1998 nuclear tests ensured 'credible minimum deterrence'Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif commemorated the 26th anniversary of Pakistan's first successful nuclear tests, highlighting the nation's jou...
28 May, 2024, 11.32 AM IST
'NDA government's 1998 Pokhran nuclear test ensured India's national security': S JaishankarExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar recently commemorated the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests, highlighting their critical role in ensuring I...
11 May, 2024, 12.54 PM IST
India marks 25th anniversary of 1998 Pokhran nuclear testsThe Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh, has stated that the country's nuclear testing in 1998 demonstrated that while India is a peac...
11 May, 2023, 07.40 PM IST
Pakistan says its nuclear tests in 1998 established “credible minimum nuclear deterrence" in South AsiaBoth the Pakistan Army and Foreign Office issued separate statements to mark the 24th anniversary of the May 28, 1998 nuclear tests, codena...
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National Technology Day: Everything you need to knowIndia conducted Pokhran-II tests, a series of five nuclear explosions, in May 1998 at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. Na...
11 May, 2022, 01.31 PM IST
Pakistan marks 23rd anniversary of 1998 nuclear tests; says credible minimum deterrence establishedPakistan carried out the tests after India conducted a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions at the Pokhran in May, 1998. “Twenty thr...
28 May, 2021, 05.00 PM IST
1998 nuclear tests demonstrated India's scientific capability, political will: Ram Nath KovindAfter the 1998 tests, the US and its allies had again imposed sanctions against India but a decade later, the Indo-US civil nuclear coopera...
11 May, 2018, 04.20 PM IST
No threats of nuclear blackmail post-Pokhran: NSAIndia faced nuclear threats between the 70s and 90s but after the 1998 Pokhran tests it has not faced any such "nuclear blackmail", Nationa...
15 Oct, 2013, 09.51 PM IST
- Kakodkar says Pokhran-II tests fully successful
Trashing the contention that the Pokhran II nuclear tests in 1998 were a failure, India's top scientists on Thursday said all objectives ha...
25 Sep, 2009, 03.02 AM IST
- Can build nuke deterrence upto 200 kilotons: Kakodkar
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar on Thursday said scientists have achieved success in building deterrence capability of upto...
24 Sep, 2009, 12.44 PM IST
Pokhran II was successful: KalamAPJ Kalam and principal scientific advisor R Chidambaram dismissed all allegations about the quality of the tests and maintained that all p...
28 Aug, 2009, 02.42 AM IST
- No truth, only versions on national security
DRDO man triggers debate on India’s nuclear capability.
28 Aug, 2009, 02.39 AM IST
- PM denies he opposed 1998 nuclear tests
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday denied that he had opposed the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998.
21 Jul, 2008, 01.17 PM IST