Kudankulam Nuclear plant gets green signal from Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today gave a green signal to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.

The top court was hearing a batch of petitions challenging a Madras High Court order in August last year that, while asking India's nuclear watchdog to ensure that necessary safeguards were complied with, gave the go-ahead for the loading of fuel in the plant.

Father of Pakistan's atomic bomb doubts North Korea will deploy nukes

Dr. Abdul Qadeer (A.Q.) Khan, the so-called “father of the Islamic nuclear bomb," says he doubts North Korea will explode a nuclear device in its current face-off with the United States and South Korea, saying the regime of Kim Jong Un is "not very stupid."

From his luxurious home in Islamabad, Khan, whose newly found political party is inserting itself into the Pakistan’s upcoming elections, said he did not think the North Koreans are “trigger happy.”