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Read these key points about India’s nuclear weapons programme.

To mitigate the flow of unused water from its share of river water usage as enshrined in the Indus Waters Treaty, India is planning to build dams in Uttarakhand and divert it to the households of Haryana and Rajasthan

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led commemorations at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima as residents offered silent prayers, lit candles and placed wreaths to remember those killed in the August 6, 1945 bombing

The Pentagon is thrilled that it will now be able to modernize its arsenal to counter the mounting might of China, which is looking to assert its military supremacy in Asia.

Britain declared that the UK would not sign politically motivated extradition treaties with any country. Pakistan Foreign Affairs minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had assured his Britain counterpart that Pakistan would not misuse any such agreement, if signed.
 

Any strong action against Pakistan and its terrorists will turn Indian Muslims against the idea of India — so believe secularists despite examples to the contrary set by many Muslim patriots, thus providing ammunition to Pakistan in continuing with its agenda of inflicting India with a thousand cuts
 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that China commended the positive statements made by both Pakistan and Afghanistan