Both BPI France and SFIL are French government-owned financial institutions. Loan is a major component of EDF and NPCIL negotiations. French major EDF, which has got the contract for building reactors for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, has said India will have to provide a sovereign guarantee to two other …
From supporting the India-US nuclear deal and slamming the Left on it, the Shiv Sena is now protesting against the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra
You really have to hand it to the nuclear industry. In any other sphere of the economy, a major industrial disaster is likely to have adverse, long-term financial consequences for the company or companies whose product or activity was involved in the accident, regardless of actual cause or legal liability. …
Workers employed at the Jaitapur nuclear power project site at Madban village have fled after the violent incidents on April 18 when a mob damaged equipment and indulged in arson. A Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) spokesperson on Thursday told The Hindu on the phone that workers have …
Two days after Tabrez Sayekar was killed in police firing near Jaitapur, the deadlock between the villagers and local authorities ended on Wednesday afternoon following which the villagers accepted the victim
Paris: French energy group Areva expects to sign the commercial agreement with staterun Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for supply of nuclear reactors by the middle of 2011 and is ready to answer any questions that Indian authorities may have over safety, its chief operating officer has said. Luc …
Police caned protesters and imposed an indefinite curfew in Ratnagiri town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as tension mounted Tuesday, a day after a local fisherman who was part of a mob rioting against the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, was shot dead by police. Tabrez Tehekar of Nate …
The protests over a nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, which claimed one life yesterday and erupted in street clashes and stone-throwing today, appears to be driven by a local political impulse
A day after one person was killed in police firing during a protest against the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his Ministry could not be blamed for the incident. He accused the Shiv Sena of politicising the issue.
Post mortem after prolonged row; stone throwing during Shiv Sena bandh Curfew has been imposed in the city following violent protests and stone throwing outside the Ratnagiri civil hospital during a bandh called by the Shiv Sena on Tuesday. The death of Tabrez Sayekar of Nate in Monday's police firing …
Rejecting the demand for withdrawal of the environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur power plant, environment minister Jairam Ramesh accused the Shiv Sena of politicising this issue and of whipping up public opinion against the setting up of the plant. Mr Ramesh stressed that
Expressing con cern over the ongoing antinuclear power project agitation in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, the main Opposition BJP on Tuesday said the issue has definitely triggered a debate. However, the Congress suggested that there could be a conspiracy behind the agitation, cautioning people against
Maharashtra Home Minister R.R. Patil said on Monday that the situation was tense in Jaitapur after Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh's statement that there was no going back on the proposed nuclear project. One person was killed in police firing and several were injured as the protest against …
A man was killed in police firing in Jaitapur, as protests against the proposed nuclear plant turned violent with agitators setting ablaze a police station. The protests took place close on the heels of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
Reacting to Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh's statement that there would be no rethink on Jaitapur nuclear power project, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray today said it was a "mockery". Shiv Sena has sided with the local people in the coastal Ratnagiri district who are opposing the project. Thackeray …
A full list of violators and violations of the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) 1991 notifications will be put up on the Ministry of Environment and Forests Web site by December, said the Environment Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Friday. Following a meeting with the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Prithviraj Chavan, …
In what could bring some relief to the developer community as well as infrastructure agencies of the city, Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh announced that the ban on sand mining in non-CRZ areas of Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts has been temporarily lifted.
The controversial April 15: The controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project will be implemented despite all the hurdles, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday and even suggested that an independent security system should be in place for all the six power plants in Jaitapur.
MUMBAI: All eyes will be on the state guest house on Friday when CM Prithviraj Chavan will meet Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh to decide the fate of a slew of infrastructure projects, including the crucial coastal road proposal. The ambitious scheme hit a roadblock recently after the Centre struck …
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is worried that the state might lose the Jaitapur power project to other states if protests from various quarters against it continue. An official from the chief minister
