Gandhinagar: Union Home Minister Amitbhai Shah today launched various development projects in his constituency Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Shah kicked off works for four lanes of Randheja - Balva road for commuters on the Mansa - Gandhinagar route. Shah also kicked off works for the reconstruction of Seth Shr NN Patel Sarvajanik Hospital and prasuti gruh at Randheja. Shah met with the children of Sardhav-based Jantanagar primary school and distributed toys among the children. He conversed wit...Read More

New Delhi: India has joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) this morning. The MTCR Point of Contact in Paris has conveyed the decision regarding India’s accession to the regime through the Embassy of France in New Delhi as well as the Embassies of The Netherlands and Luxembourg. India has thanked each of the thirty-four MTCR Partners for their support for India’s membership. India has also thanked Ambassador Pieter de Klerk of The Netherlands and Mr. Robert Steinmetz of...Read More

Washington:The US today said that there is "a path forward" for India to become a full member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group by the end of the year, hours after the group's plenary meeting ended in Seoul with no decision on India's membership in face of strong China-led opposition. "We are confident that we have got a path forward by the end of this year," a top Obama administration official said. "It needs some work. But we are confident that India would be a full member of the (NSG) r...Read More

Seoul: At the end of its two-day plenary here, the NSG today declared its "firm support" for the "full, complete and effective" implementation of the NPT as the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime, a clear indication that no exception will be made in the case of India. The statement by the 48-nation grouping, however, said that it will continue to have discussions on participation of countries which have not signed the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Confi...Read More

By Manash Pratim Bhuyan Tashkent/Seoul: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged China to support India's NSG bid, but there was no breakthrough on the issue at the meeting of the 48-nation grouping in the face of stiff Chinese-led opposition. As Modi and the powerful Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Tashkent, some 5000 km away in the South Korean capital, India's case, although not on the formal agenda, came up at a special post-dinner meeting of NSG members, who remained divided ove...Read More