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 …
The State-owned aluminium major NALCO plans to spend Rs 900 crore by next fiscal on nuclear power ventures, for which it had signed a joint-venture agreement with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) in November. As per the plan, the investments will be made on unit 3 and 4 …
MUMBAI, 19 FEB: The country's industrial production is expected to grow by 7.4 per cent in financial year 2012-13 as against an estimated 5.1 per cent growth during the current fiscal, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said in its monthly review. Industrial production growth stood at 8.2 per cent …
Iran ordered a halt to its oil sales to Britain and France on Sunday in a move seen as retaliation against tightening EU sanctions, as a team of U.N. inspectors flew to Tehran to press the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear programme. The European Union enraged Tehran last month …
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: In a fresh attempt to break the impasse over commissioning of the nuclear power plant at Koodankulam, the state government-appointed expert panel will meet protesters and other stakeholders on Saturday. This was decided by panel members after a meeting on Friday. The four members of the new committee, which …
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, …
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron put recent disputes behind them yesterday to unveil a nuclear power deal and renew their own sometimes shaky political alliance. The pair took a strong position on the Syrian regime's violence at their summit in Paris, and Cameron took the …
The United Nations chief urged Iran on Friday to implement Security Council resolutions under which Tehran should curb sensitive nuclear activity, but the Islamic state once again signalled it has no intention of doing so. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also said Iran must cooperate fully with the UN atomic watchdog, …
IN DELHI to participate in the Sustainable Development Summit, Carl Pope, a veteran environmentalist and chairman of Sierra Club, one of the world’s oldest environmental conservation organisations, tells Kunal Majumder why coal is no longer a viable option to meet India’s growing energy needs. You have been advocating that coal …
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 …
A major crisis looms large over the world as Iran flexed its nuclear muscles on Wednesday and the US and the EU nations geared up for tougher sanctions and military solution to tame a defiant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The development poses a major challenge to India, which relies on substantial import …
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 …
All safety measures according to international standards are ensured before opening nuclear power plants in the country, S.S. Bajaj, chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), has said. In his inaugural address at the national seminar and awareness programme on societal benefits of radioisotopes and radiation technology held at …
In surprisingly frank public testimony on Wednesday, Japan’s nuclear safety chief said the country’s regulations were fundamentally flawed and laid out a somber picture of a nuclear industry shaped by freewheeling power companies, toothless regulators and a government more interested in promoting nuclear energy than in safeguarding the health of …
Clearly irked by the uncertainty surrounding the Koodankulam nuclear power plant that it is helping India to build, Russia on Tuesday warned that it would have to consider redeploying the scientists and technicians, who are now stuck at the plant premises without any work, if the ground situation does not …
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, …
In a first initiative of its kind, India has begun scouting for deep underground sites to store for several decades the nuclear waste generated from its burgeoning atomic power programme. As a first step, the Department of Atomic Energy will set up an underground laboratory in one of its uranium …
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 …
AHMEDABAD: Stressing on production of electricity using nuclear energy in India, member of Atomic Energy Commission M R Srinivasan said here on Monday that it is vital for the country to become the third largest economy in the world. Srinivasan was speaking at the Ahmedabad Management Association. "At the time …
