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“We have started working on the multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles version. Agni-VI missiles will carry four or six warheads depending upon their weight,” India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) said.
The government hasn’t yet given the project the green light, although the DRDO has already done all calculations and started working on the engineering part.
Voice of Russia, TASS, Hindu newspaper
Two orphaned Russian siblings Kelly and Cloe, known in Russia as Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov, have been temporarily placed with a new US foster family, after years of abuse by their adoptive American parents.
The power of Oklahoma tornado that ripped through the state causing massive damage to property and killing dozens in its way has received a top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 on the Fujita scale. The energy released by the twister was eight times greater than that of the Hiroshima A-bomb, experts say.
US lawmakers, for the first time Tuesday, voted to provide weapons to opposition forces in Syria rebelling against President Bashar Assad.
The Bolivian government news agency ABI quoted Tuesday President Evo Morales of Bolivia as saying that the United States had funded antigovernment protests in the Latin American nation.
A group of US Congressmen is going to visit Russia next week amid the ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks. Members of the delegation led by DanaRohrabacher of the House of Representatives will meet some Russian officials who deal with counter-terrorism policies.
Republicans are trying to block Obama administration overtures to Russia on missile defense, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks.
US President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater congressional oversight on the use of drones.
An independent anti-conflict organization has released a report claiming that despite certain successes, the US drone policy should not be regarded as a reliable and long-term tool to oust militant groups out of Pakistan’s tribal regions.
Georgia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office officially charged the former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili on Tuesday night with perpetrating crimes under three sections of the Criminal Code.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev still thinks that the government should withdraw from the Russian media market, above all, in the regions.
Russia has offered the United Nations its help in training peacekeepers and said it is ready to boost its presence in peacekeeping missions.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers it necessary to continue with privatization, but it should be done sensibly.
Russia's joining the World Trade Organization should teach it how to manage production costs, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
The US authorities are going to enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran as part of extra unilateral sanctions against the country from July 1. The sanctions suggest a ban on selling gold and other precious metals to private and state-run Iranian companies, as well as to individuals holding Iranian citizenship.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson, located in located in Columbia, South Carolina, is being investigated for adultery and for being involved in a physical altercation, the Army announced. Roberts has been suspended from his duties. Adultery is a crime under military law.
Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed mine tunnel in eastern Indonesia, its US operator said Wednesday, taking the accident's final toll to 28.
The kakapo, a parrot that cannot fly, has taken one of the top spots in a recent global poll. New Zealand’s endangered species took the lead, ahead of the tiger and African elephant.
US Congressmen to visit Russia over Boston attacks
