|
|
|
|
|
Pak’s N-programme ‘fastest’ in world
Chicago Trial |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
‘New Delhi superbug’ remains a global concern, says WHO
China floods leave 14 dead
29 dead in NATO strikes on Tripoli
|
|
Pak’s N-programme ‘fastest’ in world
London, June 7 Charging that India and Pakistan were “expanding their capacity to produce fissile material for military purposes, the report said while India could have 80-110 nuclear warheads today, up from 60-80 last year, Pakistan may have increased its count from 70-90 to 90-110. Labelling Pakistan’s nuclear programme as almost the fastest in the world, SIPRI said that both Islamabad and New Delhi continue to develop new ballistic and cruise missile systems capable of delivering nuclear weapons. “They are also expanding their capacities to produce fissile material for military purposes,” the report said and claimed that Islamabad was now turning to producing lighter precision warheads for use in restricted spaces. Releasing the report in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, Daniel Nord, Director of SIPRI said Pakistan may be close to danger of “losing control of part of its nuclear arsenal” to terrorist and said it was a matter of grave concern. Nord said South Asia, where relations between India and Pakistan seem perpetually tense, is “the only place in the world where you have the nuclear arms race.” The Swedish institute said more than 5,000 nuclear weapons were deployed around the world and eight nuclear powers continue investing in new weapon system, making disarmament in the future unlikely. “More than 5,000 nuclear weapons are deployed and ready to use including nearly 2,000 that are kept in a high state of alert,” the report said. It said eight nuclear power states - the US, UK, China, France, Russia, Israel, India and Pakistan - possess more than 20,500 warheads, with Russia leading the table with 11,000 nuclear warheads including 2,427 deployed while the US had 8,500, including 2,150 deployed. The report for the first time said that North Korea “is believed to have produced enough plutonium to build a small number of nuclear warheads,” but there is no public information to verify that it has operational nuclear weapons. Nord also voiced worry over the potential consequences if “Israel or the United States decide that they will have to intervene and do something about the programme in Iran.” Iran has repeatedly insisted that its nuclear programme is non-military, but several world powers have demanded closer international inspection of Iran’s nuclear sites to verfiy the claim. — PTI nuke scare
|
|
Chicago Trial Chicago, June 7 "Evidences flatly contradicts the defence argument that Rana was not part of it. Rana and Headley were part of the same team," the attorney Vicky Peters said as the closing argument in the Rana case started. "Rana knowingly conspired with Headley on terror plots, both Mumbai and Copenhagen. Rana was not fooled by Headley. Rana was not duped by Headley. Rana knew about the terror plots and helped him in carrying these terror plots and activities," he said. Rana was indicted by a federal grand jury under 12 counts on February 15 last year for planning out the Mumbai attacks, providing material support to LeT to carry out the bombings and guiding Headley in scouting targets in Mumbai. If convicted, Rana, 50, faces a possible life sentence. Headley, a LeT operative, has admitted to 12 terrorism charges in March, 2010 after striking a deal with US prosecutors to avoid death penalty or extradition to India, Pakistan or Denmark to face related charges.
— PTI
|
|
‘New Delhi superbug’ remains a global concern, says WHO
Geneva, June 7 “The ‘New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)’ bacteria carrying these mechanisms is a gene that includes the possibility of making anti-microbials not effective,” said Dr Carmem Lucia Pessoa Da Silva, a WHO official in the department of global alter and response. The NDM-1 carrying the gene has already been identified in several patients and countries, she said. WHO today launched the Global Infection Prevention Control Network to address the growing threat from serious infectious epidemics like SARS (severe anti-respiratory syndrome) which spread to several countries over seven years ago, and anti-microbial resistance. The NDM-1 became a huge controversy in India last year after a study was published in Lancet, a British medical journal about this new global public health threat. The Lancet study carried out by a multi-national team reported the spread of bacterial carrying NDM-1 gene that was resistant to multiple different classes of antibiotics. However, the Union Health Ministry severely contested the findings of the Lancet study which showed that the gene had originated in India. It described the Lancet’s conclusions as “unfair” maintaining that Indian hospitals are perfectly safe for treatment. Subsequently, Lancet apologised to the Indian government saying it was an error to name a superbug after New Delhi. “When it comes to anti-microbial resistance” NDM-1 is recognised within the global public health community, Howard Njoo, director general in Canada’s Public Health Agency, told PTI yesterday. He said two cases have been reported in Canada last week, arguing that one of them was a local case as the man hasn’t left the his province for quite sometime.
— PTI
|
|
China floods leave 14 dead
Beijing, June 7 The floods in Guizhou Province also destroyed roads, bridges and thousands of homes, and forced evacuation of at least 45,000 residents of the worst-affected Wangmo County since yesterday, the county’s flood control and drought relief office said in a statement. Three thousand others remain stranded, it said. The deaths were reported only from the Wangmo county.
— PTI
|
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | E-mail | |
