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India made a renewed push for its membership to the coveted Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG ahead of the COP26 climate summit, underlining that its climate and development goals are tied with its entry into the grouping.

Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.

China on Friday said that there would be no discussion on India's entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) before reaching a specific plan on participation of members who have not signed the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) in the elite grouping.

At the start of 2019, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea had a total of some 13,865 nuclear weapons

A top UN official on Monday denounced growing rhetoric claiming that nuclear arms are necessary and warned that the risk of such weapons being used was on the rise.

In a significant development, elite export control regime Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on Thursday decided to admit India as its new member, which is expected to raise New Delhi's stature in the field of non-proliferation besides helping it acquire critical technologies. The decision was taken at the two-day plenary meeting of the grouping in Vienna.

India has ruled out the possibility of joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state, but said it remains "committed" to a unilateral voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing

A global treaty banning nuclear weapons is set to be adopted at the United Nations today despite opposition from the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers that boycotted negotiations.

Has India bent over backwards and given up its right to conduct a nuclear test in a legal document in order to allow a historic nuclear deal with Japan to go through? Top government officials in New Delhi have told NDTV that a separate note, signed by Indian and Japanese officials last week, along with the nuclear agreement, is not legally binding.

Pakistan has quietly entered into arrangements with China under which it gets what India gets under the nuclear deal with America and more, but without any of the conditionalities which cripple us under the US deal.

Ahead of a Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG meeting in Vienna on Friday, China has said there is "no change" in its stand that India's membership can be considered only if rules for the entry of countries that are not signatories to the non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are decided first.

Nearly a month after India was snubbed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, which refused in entry last month, India on Wednesday said countries like Brazil, Argentina and France became members of the nuke club when they were not signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Days before India was snubbed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, which refused in entry last month, Germany, which supported the application, tried to give India an alternative route into the 48-country bloc that controls sensitive nuclear technology.

Amid India's assertion that it will not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to gain entry into NSG, an adamant China on Thursday said "no country should or can put itself opposite the NPT".

The worst outcome of this whole exercise has been that we ourselves have hyphenated India with Pakistan. It has taken a great deal by successive governments to kill the idea of that hyphenation.

India made a renewed push for its membership to the coveted Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG ahead of the COP26 climate summit, underlining that its climate and development goals are tied with its entry into the grouping.

Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.

China on Friday said that there would be no discussion on India's entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) before reaching a specific plan on participation of members who have not signed the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) in the elite grouping.

At the start of 2019, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea had a total of some 13,865 nuclear weapons

A top UN official on Monday denounced growing rhetoric claiming that nuclear arms are necessary and warned that the risk of such weapons being used was on the rise.

In a significant development, elite export control regime Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) on Thursday decided to admit India as its new member, which is expected to raise New Delhi's stature in the field of non-proliferation besides helping it acquire critical technologies. The decision was taken at the two-day plenary meeting of the grouping in Vienna.

India has ruled out the possibility of joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state, but said it remains "committed" to a unilateral voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing

A global treaty banning nuclear weapons is set to be adopted at the United Nations today despite opposition from the United States, Britain, France and other nuclear powers that boycotted negotiations.

Has India bent over backwards and given up its right to conduct a nuclear test in a legal document in order to allow a historic nuclear deal with Japan to go through? Top government officials in New Delhi have told NDTV that a separate note, signed by Indian and Japanese officials last week, along with the nuclear agreement, is not legally binding.

Pakistan has quietly entered into arrangements with China under which it gets what India gets under the nuclear deal with America and more, but without any of the conditionalities which cripple us under the US deal.

Ahead of a Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG meeting in Vienna on Friday, China has said there is "no change" in its stand that India's membership can be considered only if rules for the entry of countries that are not signatories to the non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are decided first.

Nearly a month after India was snubbed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, which refused in entry last month, India on Wednesday said countries like Brazil, Argentina and France became members of the nuke club when they were not signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Days before India was snubbed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, which refused in entry last month, Germany, which supported the application, tried to give India an alternative route into the 48-country bloc that controls sensitive nuclear technology.

Amid India's assertion that it will not sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to gain entry into NSG, an adamant China on Thursday said "no country should or can put itself opposite the NPT".

The worst outcome of this whole exercise has been that we ourselves have hyphenated India with Pakistan. It has taken a great deal by successive governments to kill the idea of that hyphenation.