Embarking on an ambitious roadmap to consolidate their strategic partnership, India and Kazakhstan today signed seven pacts, including a framework agreement in civil nuclear field and a stake-shari

The US is expanding its 20-year-old search programme for weapons of mass destruction to East Africa in a bid to thwart the threat of bioterrorism emancipating from the region, a media report said.

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Japanese police on Thursday found the bodies of 10 tsunami victims in the first search of a 10-kilometre (six-mile) zone around an atomic plant, as emergency crews battled to contain a nuclear crisis.

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear accident at Chernobyl after another major aftershock rattled the quake-ravaged East.

High levels of radiation have been detected in at least 20 cars imported from Japan to a Russian port city, a media report said on Tuesday.

The cars, aboard the 'Asian Ice' ship, were held up at the

Japan raised the severity of its nuclear disaster to the highest level on Tuesday, putting it on a par with the world's worst disaster nuclear accident at Chernobyl after another major aftershock ratt

Following is a factfile on the International Nuclear Events Scale (INES), following Japan's decision on Tuesday to upgrade the gravity of the Fukushima accident from five to seven on this benchmark.

Japan on Monday said it was to widen the evacuation area around a crippled nuclear plant to include territory outside the current 20-kilometre (12-mile) exclusion zone.

"The government has designated

Japan hopes to stop pumping radioactive water into the sea on Sunday which should help ease concerns in neighbouring China and South Korea over the spread of radiation from the worst nuclear crisis si

Traces of airborne radioactive iodine, believed to have originated from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, have been detected in Pakistan.