Mumbai: Eminent nuclear scientist Dr Anil Kakodkar will be the recipient of the prestigious 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award for 2011-12. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in Mumbai on Thursday. The award, instituted in 1997 by the Maharashtra government to recognise the highly distinguished work and achievements of eminent persons from the state, representing different walks of life, carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a...
03:08 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: It has been almost a decade since Railway passenger fares were increased and its finances are in the red. The Indian Railways is the country's 24*7 lifeline, registering 23 million passengers and up to 2.65 million tonnes of freight traffic per day. With the Railway finances going from bad to worse, a question often asked is what is the prime reason behind it. Why are the Railways sinking?...
11:51 AM, Mar 14, 2012
The Railways are a state within a state with the attitude of a village. Successive railway ministers in the past two decades, most notably Mamata Banerjee and Ram Vilas Paswan, have driven the Railways to rack and ruin. Commentators in the media have excoriated them and rightly so. But the faceless gnomes of the Railway Board cannot escape blame for hollowing out the organisation from within. They are unworthy of...
12:05 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Pune: Shiv Sena activists on Monday threatened to create a ruckus and disrupt the speech of eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar at the Agarkar Institute in Pune. The party had threatened to disrupt the function if the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission spoke in favour of the Jaitapur project. It was only after the organisers gave a written undertaking that Kakodkar would not mention Jaitapur was the function...
02:41 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of Minister Dinesh Trivedi's first Railway Budget on March 14, a high-level panel has advised focus on safety issues, rather than the populist practice of introducing new trains, saying the system was "bereft" of spare capacity. "No new trains should be introduced without adding adequate capacity for operation and maintenance," said the high-level panel on safety headed by former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar in...
10:48 AM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The high-level rail safety review committee headed by former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar will present its report on Friday, which is understood to have favoured separate cadres for diesel and electric locomotive drivers and upgrading tracks. The report, which will be presented just weeks ahead of the Rail Budget 2012-13, is understood to have also stressed for better signalling system which could be in-cab signal technology...
05:20 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Former Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar said if there is a tendency to penalised people for taking bold steps, then new technology can't be developed in the country. ...
02:33 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Manipal (Karnataka): former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar on Saturday termed the agitation against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant as "unfortunate". Kakodkar asked the protestors not to link the issue with Fukushima Nuclear disaster in Japan. "To link Kudankulam plant controversy to Fukushima is uncalled for. It was tsunami which destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, not technical glitches in reactors," Kakodkar said. Addressing the gathering after inaugurating Innovation Centre and Manipal...
07:35 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Delhi: The Japan quake and the possible nuclear fallout found an echo in the Maharashtra assembly on Monday. The divide over the proposed nuclear power plant in Jaitapur in the state has sharpened forcing the government to call in atomic energy expert Anil Karkodkar to pacify the legislators. The uproar against the proposed nuclear power plant in Jaitapur over the past few months and questions about nuclear safety after the...
10:02 PM, Mar 14, 2011
Mumbai: India's nuclear reactors are safe, claimed former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar while defending the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant in Maharashtra. Kakodkar made the claim during an unprecedented PowerPoint presentation for Maharashtra's legislators in Mumbai on Monday. "Other options to generate electricity are not enough for our needs. Our technological equipment and infrastructure is lacking. We have technical know-how, but nuclear power is essential. Uranium should...
01:27 PM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Human Resource Development Ministry has refused a proposal seeking a four-fold increase in fees of undergraduate courses at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal termed the proposal of huge increase from Rs 50,000 a year to Rs 2.5 lakh a year as a deterrent to aspiring students. The five-member Anil Kakodkar Committee, working on the new fee structure, has been asked to rework...
06:04 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Success of Pokharan II nuclear test is not in doubt, says eminent scientist. ...
08:23 PM, Dec 13, 2009
Kakodkar was Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1998. ...
05:41 PM, Sep 24, 2009
Atomic Comm chairman Kakodkar said radioactivity level is strictly monitored. ...
03:56 AM, Aug 03, 2009
Use plural, India has thermonuclear bombs, says Kakodkar ...
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