'Other countries cannot stop Iran's uranium enrichment program,' said Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi.
'With Pakistan's 'first use doctrine' threatening the use of nuclear weapons early in a war with India, the S-400 will shield vulnerable targets like Delhi and Mumbai, complicating Pakistan's targeting calculations.'
A report claimed that the recently completed command centre is connected by tunnels to other government compounds near the Mossala prayer ground, one of the city's most important religious sites.
In December 2005, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had inaugurated the concrete pouring of the country's third nuclear power plant, in southwest of the national capital.
It is not Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram on one side and we on the other. People of the country also has a say," Bardhan said.
Bolton, who is the chief US envoy to the United Nations, said involving the Security Council will not displace the IAEA, but will "strengthen the hand" of the agency in dealing with Iran.
The government's clarification came following reports that Iran has conveyed that the $21-billion deal to supply LNG was off following India voting in favour of the IAEA resolution.
In India, the publishers claim to have sold out the first consignment of 8,000 copies that reached on Tuesday.
Stressing that from Beirut to Baghdad, people are making the choice for freedom and that the nations gathered in the United Nations must make a choice as well, Bush said the US will support reformers and moderates across the Middle East.
Gold prices zoomed to set a new peak at Rs 9,950 per ten gram on the bullion market on Wednesday on hectic buying by stockists and jewellers, triggered by surging prices in the overseas markets.
Gold rose further on the bullion market in Mumbai due to increased buying by stockists after rise in the overseas prices. Silver also ended better in line with gold.
It hovered in a range of 63.57 and 63.70.
The UNSC has the power to slap Iran with sanctions.
Biden's remarks could be seen as a setback to the Shehbaz Sharif government's bid to improve ties with the US.
This is Kim's first overseas visit since he took over power in 2011 after his father's death.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and\nhis reaction was "constructive" and "not overly problematic."
Yale University has issued a statement saying that Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani attended a weeklong programme and received a certificate from the university last year, along with several other lawmakers from India. George Joseph/Rediff.com reports from New York
'Dr Singh, visibly relieved, said, 'Yesterday night I couldn't sleep. I stayed awake, praying throughout. You have saved the country'.' A fascinating excerpt from former atomic energy chief Dr Anil Kakodkar's memoir Fire And Fury: Transforming India's Strategic Identity.
Jim Sarb and Ishwak Singh are a force to reckon with and deliver a soaring tribute to the two pillars of India's science world in Rocket Boys, applauds Sukanya Verma.
It also said that certain debates on television channels on the incidents in northwest Delhi had unparliamentary, provocative and socially unacceptable language.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer also wanted the Iranian nuclear programme to be verified.
Jaishankar also met his Iranian counterpart H Amirabdollahian and held productive discussions on bilateral economic cooperation, Afghanistan and the joint comprehensive plan of action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal.
'I saw this as an attempt to embarrass me by suggesting that I was a security threat.' Benazir Bhutto, in an \n\nexclusive interview.
Ambassador Pankaj Sharma, Permanent Representative of India to the Conference on Disarmament (CD), Geneva, said India has been drawing the attention of the world towards these threats and the need to strengthen international cooperation to address them through its annual consensus UNGA resolution titled 'Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction'.
India on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, as part of a user trial for the defence forces.
'Rani made it very clear when she signed the film that she would shoot only during her daughter's summer vacation so as not to disturb her role as a real life mother.'
The White House has maintained that this is "not the time to talk" to North Korea, which has been carrying out ballistic missile test.
US President Barack Obama has secretly written a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to seek his support in the fight against the Islamic State militants.
'What the film shows is an India, which was headed in a completely different direction than where we are headed.'
'IDF (the Israeli Defence Forces) soldiers, be it a girl or a boy, they may look very cute, but you cannot mess with them.' 'People are serving their country at 95 years of age. That's the greatest example of patriotism.'
However, the probe agencies stressed that all angles were being covered in the probe.
Pyongyang agreed in principle to dismantle its nuclear weapons at the September 2005 round of talks but boycotted the meeting following US financial sanctions imposed on the reclusive Stalinist state.
'There appears to be greater convergence of interests between China and the US in the Afghan-Pakistan theatre than between India and the US. This is hardly a recipe for a super-alliance,' says former foreign secretary Ambassador Shyam Saran.
The comment was in response to a June 19 Reuters story citing sources with knowledge of the matter as saying that India planned to clear some oil payments to Iran through the United Arab Emirates central bank.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who was on a visit to the US last month, said that America's relationship with Pakistan has "not served" either of the two countries and raised questions on the Biden administration's approval of a USD 450-million sustenance package for the F-16 fleet.
Modi's visit to Bahrain is significant as it will be the first visit of an Indian prime minister to the country.
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