India maintains a separation between civilian and military nuclear programmes and remains outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Consequently, the PFBR is not under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
The reactor that has now gone critical at Kalpakkam, on the Bay of Bengal coastline in Tamil Nadu, is not the end of that journey. It is, more precisely, the end of the beginning. The real test is whether India can now scale fast breeder capacity rapidly enough to make a material difference to its energy-mix building on the Kalpakkam template, the industrial supply chains it has validated, and the engineering confidence it has earned.
If India and China choose collaboration by setting aside strategic suspicion in the climate domain, they could fundamentally reshape the trajectory of the 21st century, as they have already demonstrated individually through their pursuit of clean energy over the past decade. More importantly, such a coalition could revive the COP28 fossil-fuel phase-down pledge, which stalled at COP29 in Baku and appears to be drifting further at COP30 in Belém.
The Indus and the Ganges are dying slowly, and with them disappear species that evolved over thousands of years within these waters. If current patterns continue, future generations may inherit rivers that exist geographically but are biologically empty. South Asia still has an opportunity to reverse this trajectory, but only if environmental protection becomes a shared regional priority rather than an afterthought.
UNICEF Afghanistan on Saturday closed its digital channels and went dark to reflect the challenges that Afghan children have been facing, said the UN body, adding the United Nations Children Fund will not celebrate the World Children’s Day in the Taliban-captured South-Asian nation this year
People in Afghanistan. victims of decades of civil strife, food shortages and economic collapse, may become victims of extreme poverty by mid-2022, the International Organisation for Migration- UN Migration (IOM) said in a statement
Bangladesh has praised the United Nations which recently passed a unanimous resolution on the situation of Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar, saying the move will have a "political" impact and "pressure" the Myanmar authority to take corrective measures
The Islamic State-Khorasan terrorist group (ISKP) is now expanding to nearly all Afghan provinces, with the Taliban - under UN sanctions for terrorism - being unable to stop it, UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons said on Wednesday
India on Tuesday slammed Pakistan for its “false and malicious propaganda” against it by using the UN platform and said any meaningful dialogue with Islamabad can take place only in an atmosphere free of terror, hostility and violence
Ahead of a United Nations Security Council session on Afghanistan on Wednesday, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen, who has been nominated by the Islamic Emirate as its envoy for the UN, renewed a call for the United Nations seat for the current Kabul regime
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) plans to deliver additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan to storage facilities in the Uzbek city of Termez by the end of November, a UNHCR spokesperson told Sputnik on Tuesday
Pakistan on Tuesday reaffirmed its strong opposition to the move by the Group of Four – India, Brazil, Germany and Japan – for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
Professor Bimal N. Patel of India has been elected to the International Law Commission, a UN body of legal experts, for a five-year term beginning in January 1, 2023
India has paid rich tributes to all its women and men peacekeepers, including the 14 police officers who died in the line of duty to UN peacekeeping, of which India is a major contributor
The number of children with disabilities globally is estimated at nearly 240 million, according to a UNICEF report
India on Tuesday said that it is imperative that terrorism in any form or manifestation is condemned and those supporting it in any manner are held accountable, and also stressed that the “persisting exclusion and inequality in the membership of the Security Council needs to be addressed”
Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, has been designated as the 'creative city of craft and folk arts' by UCCN, UNESCO said in a statement
An estimated 23 million people in Afghanistan, out of its over 37 million population, are facing a dire food crisis and the UN is working on developing mechanisms to help prevent a humanitarian catastrophe
While the developed countries are failing to meet their targets for fighting climate change, India is overachieving and has exceeded its targets, according to the country’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav
