September 1, 2025 07:25 AM IST

First published on: Sep 1, 2025 at 07:25 AM IST

If India decides to make nuclear weapons, the cost of such a programme limited to meeting a similar Pakistani threat will not be much, defence researchers say. For a developing country, cost is one of the basic factors in such a programme. The other factors are whether India has the means to assemble a bomb and a delivery system to take it to enemy targets. The government has been ambivalent about its nuclear policy saying that the nuclear programme is aimed at peaceful purposes and simultaneously adding that Pakistan is about to or has already made a bomb and that India’s “options are open.”

Draft Peace Accord

The Sri Lanka President, J R Jayewardene, has called a special meeting of senior ministers to discuss the “working paper” which could form the framework for resolving the island’s ethnic problem. Hector Jayewardene, leader of the delegation to the Thimpu peace talks, had spent the last 10 days in New Delhi finalising the draft of the working paper.

Chembur Gas Leak

Having failed to plug the leakage of chlorine effectively, the management of the Calico Mill’s chemicals and plastics division at Chembur in Bombay has agreed to neutralise the entire 40 tonnes stock of the toxic gas immediately. The suggestion to neutralise the chlorine gas came from Dr Ghosh of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, who is a member of the special crisis committee.

Waiting For A Flat

Exactly 12 years ago, an employee of a Central Government office responded to DDA’s advertisement offering Janata flats. Ethelbert Kujur, belonging to a scheduled tribe, works in the Central Public Works Department. He was allotted a flat in 1975, and is still waiting to take possession.