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.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil political parties, Civil Society organisations and Victims’ Organisations have written to the 47 member states of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) demanding action against what they call is a deteriorating Human Rights situation in this country
India has the world's largest diaspora with about 18 million people born there now living abroad, according to John Wilmoth, the director of UN's Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The stalled negotiations for reforming the United Nations Security Council will restart on January 25, General Assembly President Volkan Bozkır said on Friday
The World Health Organisation (WHO) map showing Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as separate from India has sparked a controversy with the Indian government taking offence at the "inaccurate depiction"
Calling out Pakistan for its support for terrorism and China for providing terrorists cover against sanctions, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has unveiled an eight-point plan against the global scourge
Pakistan on Wednesday presented an action plan to the United Nations Security Council calling on member nations to outlaw violent nationalist supremacists groups, including India's RSS
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), under its Human Rights and Justice Program (HRJP), has launched Low-Value Grants (LVG) to foster small scale innovative actions to address human rights issues during and after COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh, engaging civil society organizations (CSOs) and community radio
Many countries in Africa are facing fragility because of the threats of terrorism and economic problems and India is working with nations in the continent to tackle these and other challenges, Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Wednesday
India will be the voice against terrorism at the Security Council, but will also act a healer and a bridge-builder within the polarised body, according to India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti
India has expressed concern over the possibility of terrorists getting hold of chemical weapons and called for unrelenting global action against them
UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of General Assembly Volkan Bozkir have condemned the terrorist attack in Mach which claimed lives of 11 innocent coal miners in Pakistan
As the Taliban and the Afghan government set to resume the second round of the Intra-Afghan negotiation, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) urged both sides to reduce violence in order to create a better atmosphere for talks and better humanitarian assistance
With a pledge to “bring human-centric and inclusive solutions” to world problems, India has taken its place on the UN Security Council, the organisation's highest decision-making body
Days after the Maldives submitted its ambitious net-zero emission target 2030, Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), congratulated the nation for its ambitious target
On December 31, the last day of 2020, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on human rights violations by Myanmar against Rohingyas and others by a huge margin
