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Pakistan is up in making new types of nuclear weapon have become a worry for America's intelligence chief warned on Tuesday, which includes short-range tactical ones that bring more risks to the region.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats' remarks came days after a group of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists struck the Sunjuwan Military Camp in Jammu on Saturday that has killed 7 people including 6 soldiers.

“Pakistan is developing new types of nuclear weapons, including short-range tactical weapons,” Coats told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats organised by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Pakistan continues to produce nuclear weapons and develop new types of nuclear weapons, including short-range tactical weapons, sea-based cruise missiles, air-launched cruise missiles, and longer-range ballistic missiles, he warned. “These new types of nuclear weapons will introduce new risks for escalation of dynamics and security in the region,” Coats said, reflecting on the risks involved in developing such types of nuclear weapons.

Coats said North Korea will be among the most volatile and confrontational weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats to the US over the next year.

North Korea’s history of exporting ballistic missile technology to several countries, including Iran and Syria, and its assistance during Syria’s construction of a nuclear reactor — destroyed in 2007 — illustrates its willingness to proliferate dangerous technologies.

In 2017 North Korea, for the second straight year, conducted a large number of ballistic missile tests, including its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) tests. Pyongyang is committed to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the United States. It also conducted its sixth and highest yield nuclear test to date.

“We assess that North Korea has a longstanding Biological Weapons (BW) capability and biotechnology infrastructure that could support a BW programme. We also assess that North Korea has a Chemical Weapons (CW) programme and probably could employ these agents by modifying conventional munitions or with unconventional, targeted methods,” he said.

Coats said state efforts to modernise, develop, or acquire WMD, their delivery systems, or their underlying technologies constitute a major threat to the security of the United States, its deployed troops, and its allies. Both state and non-state actors have already demonstrated the use of chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria.

Biological and chemical materials and technologies — almost always dual-use — move easily in the globalised economy, as do personnel with the scientific expertise to design and use them for legitimate and illegitimate purposes. Information about the latest discoveries in the life sciences also diffuses rapidly around the globe, widening the accessibility of knowledge and tools for beneficial purposes and for potentially nefarious applications.

(With agency inputs)

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After the Senate adjourned with no vote on a measure to extend federal funding beyond the 12:00 am deadline, results US government today to shut at midnight.

The upper chamber of Congress struggled to overcome roadblocks to passing a government funding bill and budget plan when a conservative senator objected to a swift vote, and leadership opted to close up shop and then reopen at 12:01 am(0501 GMT).

The closure could ultimately be short-lived, as the Senate was expected to schedule a vote on the measure at 1:00 am and, if it passes, send it to the House of Representatives and then on to President Donald Trump's desk for his signature as early astomorrow.

(with agency inputs)

United States ambassador Nikki Haley said to the United Nations that the rumors of her affair with President Donald Trump are "disgusting" and "highly offensive".

While calling her affair a vague argument, Haley also called these rumors to be a challenge faced by all the strong and successful women to diminish the women who manage to work their way up to positions of power, said The Guardian

The iconic Trump brand that debuted in the city of Gurugram with the launch of ‘“Trump Towers Delhi NCR”, a residential development, at the prime Golf Course Extension Road of Gurugram (India's National Capital Region) has received an overwhelming response. The project was announced in mid- January 2018 and has already clocked INR 500 crore worth bookings in little under a month of launch. The project has sold over two residences a day since launch with an average ticket price of INR 7.5 crore. This velocity of absorption has not been witnessed in NCR luxury realty market in the last 2-3 years.  The project is being jointly developed by M3M India and Tribeca Developers. This project marks the first entry of the iconic Trump Tower brand into the Delhi-NCR and the fourth Trump Tower in India, a country with the most number of Trump branded properties outside of North America.  

New Delhi: The meeting of the World Economic Forum has begun in Davos, in which the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi joined with his delegation and got the first obligation to address. In his statement, Modi addressed India to be the most trusted country of investment and also said that the world should go together for it. According to the World Economic Forum website, “the institution is committed of improving the condition of the world”. Each year it comes with a special theme. This year's theme is - Creating a Shared Future for 'Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.