Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Bangladesh Thursday initiated an agreement with Russia for installing a 2000 MW nuclear power plant at Rooppur in Pabna. Secretary to the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology Abdur Rob Howlader, and ICT and Deputy Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM, Nickolay Spasskiy, initialed the deal …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF),currently under attack for being allegedly too rigid in providing clearances to projects, has lifted an earlier moratorium in this regard on eight more critically polluted areas. However, the MoEF has indicated that the respective state governments and pollution control boards need to adhere …
Indian intransigence at WTO negotiations irked New Zealand to the extent that it became a trenchant critic of the Indo-US nuclear deal, suggests a WikiLeaks cable. The international whistleblower has documents from the US embassy in New Zealand suggesting that quite apart from the country’s non-proliferation concerns, disarmament minister Phil …
As terrorism spreads and the security situation in its north-western region worsens, reports of Pakistan increasing its nuclear arsenal have raised fears over its safety and security. There is serious concern about the possibility of non-state operators acquiring a dirty bomb in the event of the government crumbling or a …
A NUMBER of mega projects along the Konkan coast in Maharashtra are under public scrutiny. The most recent reason for this is the amendment to the rules governing the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ). The rules originally prohibited the setting up of big industries on the coast. The amended version permits …
A high-level delegation of US officials and nuclear scientists is on a 10-day visit to India to explore ways of cooperation in the atomic energy sector. Representatives from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the US administration's key nuclear engineering and science laboratory, are expected to identify nuclear development opportunities and …
CHENNAI: Scientists globally are a step closer to resolving the energy crisis after Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi recently developed a cold fusion device that is capable of producing 10 KW of power, said noted nuclear scientist M Srinivasan. Speaking at a tutorial school on the theme,
Finland consumes nearly 17,000 units of electric power per capita annually; its share of nuclear electricity is about 28 per cent. Though its nuclear power programme is very modest compared to that of U.S. or U.K. it is far ahead in its universally applauded plans for nuclear waste management. The …
Pakistan has doubled the size of its nuclear stockpile over the past several years, edging past India and now has more than 100 deployed weapons, according to a Washington Post report.
U.S. President Barack Obama set a target for power plants to produce mostly clean electricity by 2035 -- including power from sources like clean coal and natural gas -- in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Obama also called for investment in clean technologies and urged Congress to …
US-based heavy equipment and forged steel manufacturing firm, Brighton Energy, is expected to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Andhra Pradesh to set up its facility near Visakhapatnam. The proposed facility, with an investment of about Rs 2,724 crore, would manufacture forged steel components, which are essentially fabricated by …
The fourth unit of the 220 MW Kaiga Generating Station (KGS-4), located in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka, was connected to the southern power grid in the early hours of Wednesday, after the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) granted clearance to it. KGS-4, which achieved first criticality on November 27 …
Citing its growth and huge energy requirements, India today pressed Australia to reverse the policy of not selling uranium to it, even as authorities here insisted they would not budge from their stand on the issue. External affairs minister Mr SM Krishna, who is here on a three-day visit, met …
Amid boycott by dissenting voices, the open house on Jaitapur power project organised by the state government managed to project a happy picture of the nuclear plant. Almost all the participants supported the project. Most of the participants, including the project affected people, welcomed the project and asserted that people …
In what is being considered a triumph for Indian diplomacy, Japan appears to have given up most of its reservations with regard to civil nuclear cooperation with India and hopes to conclude an accord with New Delhi in this critical area very soon. Japanese Ambassador to India Hideaki Domichi also …
MUMBAI: Activists and villagers affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project will boycott the Maharashtra government's meeting, to be held here on Tuesday to clear misconceptions over nuclear energy. Experts from the nuclear energy establishment, agricultural universities and environment are expected to have an open house with the affected people, …
