Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
NEW DELHI: In response to anti-Kudankulam nuclear plant protestors threatening to sue Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the government is ready to reveal records showing how foreign funds were used to give local agitators daily handouts of money, food and liquor. The government is ready to back its charge that groups …
The Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) has stepped up its plan to reachout to villagers in the vicinity of the upcoming Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, in a bid to remove their misunderstandings and explain to them the safety features of the proposed 2,000-Mw plant. A similar drive has …
The PM’s Take on Agitation. What’s happening in Kudankulam…the atomic energy programme has got into difficulties because these NGOs, mostly I think based in the United States, don’t appreciate the need for our country to increase the energy supply. Licences cancelled The Minister of State for Personnel disclosed that the …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has criticised non-governmental organisations that receive support from abroad for stalling the use of genetic engineering in agriculture and leading protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. In an interview published in the latest issue of journal Science, Dr. Singh pointed to the …
The safety of people and environment has always been the priority of the nuclear industry, stressed M. Kashinath Balaji, Director of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, here on Thursday. He was inaugurating an interactive session, ‘National summit on nuclear safety' organised in connection with Conjura-12, the annual technical and cultural festival …
Pressure is mounting on the Indian government to commission the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) at the earliest. Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out an inspection of the KNPP on Monday in order to ensure that the nuclear fuel kept in the storage room was not …
Senior official hopes to commission the first unit by August There finally seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel with regard to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. A senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on Wednesday expressed confidence that …
Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort to bridge the energy demand-supply gap. The 500 MW fast-breeder reactors would have additional safety systems …
Protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) has once again intensified with the new Tamil Nadu panel of experts claimed that the plant was safe and gave enough indication that the State would like to go ahead to help commissioning the plant. The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)-led …
CHENNAI: A two-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) carried out a detailed inspection at Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) even as the anti-plant protesters announced a 72-hour fast from Monday to protest a clean chit by a state government panel. "The two member IAEA team is carrying …
TIRUNELVELI: The four-member committee set up by Tamil Nadu Government today virtually gave a clean chit to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), saying it was well-equipped to withstand natural calamities, be it earthquake or tsunami. Emerging from the two-hour long talks with members of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy …
A five-member Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) team, which has camped at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project's Anu Vijay Township for the past five days, is unable to enter the KKNPP site for carrying out mandatory inspection due to the anti-nuke group's ban imposed on the movement of men and material …
CHENNAI: The four-member experts committee formed by the Tamil Nadu government held its first meeting on Friday and called on Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat ahead of their visit to Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant and to meet the protestors on Saturday. Prof S Iniyan, convenor of the committee, …
The four-member expert committee set up by the Tamil Nadu government to look into the people’s concerns about Koodankulam nuclear power project will meet in the city on Friday. The team is expected to start its work soon and submit its report to the state government. Sources say the team …
More than 2,000 people attached to 15 associations in Tiruchengode took a massive procession on Wednesday urging the State Government to start electricity generation at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) without delay to put an end to the severe power shortage that has badly affected the motor, lorry body …
Reiterating that the nuclear power plants in Kudankulam were “the safest in the world”, Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin on Tuesday said his country could not allow its scientists to remain idle indefinitely. “We are not setting any deadline. But our scientists are sitting idle since October 2011. …
VELLORE/ THIRUVANNAMALAI: The unscheduled power cuts prevailing across the state have led to the convergence of a focused demand for the early commissioning of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) by representatives from industries, political parties and farmers’ bodies. As the demand for the commissioning of the plant gets vociferous, …
Entire Pettai area is experiencing power cut for nearly 9 hours a day which badly affects the students Demanding the immediate commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), a group of Muslims from Pettai near here submitted a petition to Collector R. Selvaraj during the weekly grievance day meeting held …
If Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) is commissioned, 1,000 MW share for Tamil Nadu would put an end to the prevailing power crisis, T.K. Sathyaseelan, president of All India Congress Labour Front (AICFL) and also president of KNPP Supporting People's Movement, said here on Sunday. Consult Speaking to reporters, Mr. …
While appealing to the Tamil Nadu Government to cooperate with the Centre in ensuring the early commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has warned that those acting against the nation's welfare and development with funding of foreign agencies would have to face stern action. …
