'The new reactor could simply be a replacement for the existing one in Khushab,' the report said.
Patil said the issue of security had gained importance since the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, the Indian Parliament and more recently the pre-Diwali blasts in Delhi.
Will US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the Senate FRC convince the sceptics?
Like Air India, there have been recent cyber attacks on some major airlines, including one in Canada, and a global airlines alliance
The top court made it clear that there was a need for holistic hearing and it is neither going to be swayed by the arguments of senior lawyer Fali S Nariman, who is representing the petitioners, nor by any other senior counsel and the submissions have to go by the letter of the law.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday announced Rs 500 a month as "honorarium".
Text of the President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day 2007.
'Human rights issues continue to be exploited selectively, more often for narrow short-term political ends,' Modi tells Ban.
The farmers' suicides and the Naxal issue could be high on the agenda.
'By extending its support to the LeT, China is not helping the cause of containment and eventual destruction of radicalism and terror.'
Air Chief Marshal said his force is ready for a full spectrum operation but added that any decision on surgical strike involving the IAF has to be taken by the government.
Meanwhile, a high-level team which assessed the security measures for Indians in Afghanistan has opined that the protective arrangements were adequate but there was a need to follow these properly and religiously by the individuals, sources said.
It was a 50-year-old man arrested on Wednesday who had entered into an altercation with Junaid and his brothers over seat sharing.
Mulayam sparks controversy; says government is tapping Amar Singh's phone. Government hits back with grit.
Earlier, the Home Ministry had raised concerns over the use of Aadhaar number as a single source of identity verification.
There are unprecedented political implications of identification based on 'biological attributes of an individual', such as employed by Aadhaar, warns Gopal Krishna.
'How can the police, especially the Gujarat police, earn their laurels if they stick to the rule book?' asks lawyer Susan Abraham.
The report said South Asia is expected to be the fastest-growing region.
'Even if the national security framework is to be threat-based, then the division of security threats between Pakistan and China is absurd. The two threats are one.'
The United States has suspended its military aid to Thailand in the wake of a bloodless coup there, as chief of the US army called his Thai counterpart urging him to return the country to democratic rule.
The state department official ruled out negotiating any such pact with Pakistan.
Pakistan's fourth heavy water reactor at Khushab nuclear site which allows it to build a larger number of miniaturised plutonium-based nuclear weapons now appears to be operational, a US think-tank has said.
'Thousands of people were stoning us, but we never fired back.'
The decision was taken at a meeting between Archeological Survey of India Director General C Babu Rajeev\nand Central Industrial Security Force Inspector General Radhakrishnan Kinne yesterday
Activist Teesta Setalvad on Monday recorded her statement before the CBI in connection with a case against her firm for alleged violation of FCRA.
While the government interlocutor for J&K may be tasked with holding talks with 'all stakeholders', the central government is singing a very different tune in the Supreme Court, Aditi Phadnis points out.
The PM said the mission would be given a certain time-frame to achieve its targets.
The US also blasted China and Russia for not joining hands with the international community in their efforts to combat the North Korean threat.
The United States has announced a bounty of $30 million for information leading to the location of five key leaders of the Haqqani militant network, held responsible for several attacks on civilians and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Home minister says anyone trying to disturb communal harmony will not be spared.
At the age of 39, Centrist Emmanuel Macron will become France's youngest leader since Napoleon.
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