Nuclear Security Summit

The EU officials said an announcement on firming up of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement will be made during the summit on Wednesday

Modi said that ties between the two countries had become "richer and deeper"

India will also host a meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in 2017

The nation argued that it has streamlined and strengthened its export control regime

Companies have been reluctant to do business with Iran for fear of getting tangled in a thicket of US regulations

Obama also said that US and Russia, the two largest possessors of nuclear weapons, had to be prepared to lead the way

US President Barack Obama said the Indian subcontinent and the Korean peninsula were areas where more could be done

Said India will continue to accord a high national priority to nuclear security through strong institutional framework and independent regulatory agency

The PM made a strong call to the world to drop the notion that terrorism is someone else's problem & that 'his' terrorist is not 'my' terrorist.

Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhary said the perception created in the media that Pakistan had the fastest-growing nuclear programme was wrong

PM Modi and leaders from 50 nations began arriving here for the Nuclear Security Summit.

The US is hosting the Nuclear Security Summit, during which world leaders are expected to discuss ways to prevent terrorists from obtaining atomic weapons

Xi is scheduled to present China's new measures and achievements in the area of nuclear security

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had cancelled his US visit in the wake of the terror attack in Lahore

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Obama has called the relationship with India a defining relationship of this century

Modi will attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Thursday and Friday

He further said that the nation did not have a reckless nuclear strategy

Top Obama administration officials had recently expressed similar concerns before US lawmakers during a Congressional hearing

Leaders from some 40 countries, including heads of States from two dozen, are likely to attend the two-day summit on March 31 and April 1

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to attend the summit