Chennai: The much-delayed Kudankulam project is set to be commissioned within the next two weeks as nuclear scientists have entered the final lap of a series of tests on its safety and efficacy. “Within this month 100 per cent.It will take about two weeks,” Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission told PTI [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: After being censured by his party’s Central Committee for defying the official line on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant issue, CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan has also come under sharp attack in the Kerala unit of the party for openly taking divergent stands on some vital issues. According to party sources, the 88-year-old leader [...]
Kudankulam: Launching another phase of their agitation against Kudankulam atomic power project, anti-nuclear protestors today began a day-long ‘siege’ of the plant by placing fibre boats and floating buoys in the sea. The protestors, including hundreds of local fishermen from Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts, remained 500 metres away from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, demanding [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today made it clear that it can stop commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant if it finds that the mandatory safety requirements for it have not been put in place. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishanan and Deepak Misra said the safety of plant and the people living [...]
Chennai: India’s atomic energy regulator Friday said it has given its nod to Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) to load enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). “We have given the nod to NPCIL to load the fuel at KNPP on Tuesday. NPCIL has completed the stipulations that [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Ignoring the CPIM’s official line, party veteran V S Achuthanandan today set out to Kundankulam to pledge solidarity with anti-nuclear protesters but was stopped by Tamil Nadu Police at the border town of Kaliyikkavila near here. As Achuthanandan’s car entered the border town, an officer of Tamil Nadu police stopped the vehicle and requested [...]
Chennai: The Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) is still in the process of complying with the pre-conditions laid down by the atomic regulator for fuelling the first reactor at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), the sectoral regulator said. Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) chairman S.S. Bajaj said: “We are waiting for NPCIL [...]
An uneasy calm prevailed here today with police tightening vigil as anti-nuclear protesters continued with their relay fast at Idinthakari, epicentre of protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear plant.
Chennai: The over a year-long protests against the Kudankulam nuclear project in Tamil Nadu turned violent Monday, leaving one agitator dead in police firing in Tuticorin district and several injured in a police baton charge on protestors near the plant in Tirunelveli district. The protests, spearheaded by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), and earlier [...]
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of activists renewing their opposition to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, Home Minister Shushilkumar Shinde Monday said the protestors were being supported by foreign NGOs. “Foreign NGOs are supporting this movement. We are aware about the NGOs which are behind it,” Shinde said at a press conference [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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