Washington: The US is strongly supportive of India's investment in the civil nuclear power, and its support to the NGOs goes for development and democracy programmes, the Obama Administration has said.
"We are supportive as a government of India's investment in civil nuclear power. That's not what we support NGOs to do in India," the State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday.
"Our NGO support goes for development, and it goes for democracy programmes," Nuland said when asked about the recent remarks by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview to the Science magazine that three US-based NGO are funding anti-nuclear power plant projects in Tamil Nadu.
The US official said that the country is supportive of India's investment in civil nuclear power and the NGOs funded by it are involved in the same kind of democratisation projects....
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12:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Karaikal/Chennai: The Union Government will take steps to commission the stalled Kudankulam nuclear power plant "as early as possible", Union Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy said on Sunday, adding it was incurring a loss of Rs 750 crore per month by lying idle. "In coordination with the Tamil Nadu Government, the Union Government will jointly work out the mechanism to open the Kudankulam nuclear power plant as...
10:20 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Chennai: Nuclear Power Corporation of India is losing more than Rs 3 crore a day besides Rs 8 crore a month as establishment cost due to the Kudankulam protests, according to site director of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant M Kashinath Balaji. Talking to reporters after participating in a plenary session of Conference on Disaster Management 'Certainty the object - Uncertainty the Reality' organized by Confederation of Indian Industry here on...
08:44 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Chennai: The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reassurance to Russia that the plant will become operational in a few weeks has sparked protests back home. Thousands of people in Tamil Nadu will take out a protest rally on Sunday from Kanyakumari to Radhapuram. However, on his flight back from Russia on Saturday, Manmohan Singh downplayed the agitation. Manmohan Singh on Saturday assured Tamil Nadu about the safety of the Kudankulam nuclear...
07:21 AM, Dec 18, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday assured Tamil Nadu about the safety of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. He also said that the protests over the nuclear plant were over done. The Prime Minister further said that the government could not let the Kudankulam plant sit idle, pointing that the nation had sunk an amount of Rs 14,000 crore. "We recognise the concerns of Tamil Nadu and their...
11:27 PM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: To assuage the fears of the locals and the Tamil Nadu government, the Centre on Thursday announced setting up of a 15-member group of experts over the Kudankulam nuclear plant project. "We have set up a 15-member group of experts," officials said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had on Wednesday night said that the committee promised by him to convince stakeholders in the Kudankulam nuclear power project would be...
10:46 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the Kudankulam nuclear power project crisis, saying that they were responsible for all the problems. Jayalalithaa further said that they the Centre must take immediate efforts to put an end to the issue. Pointing that Kudankulam was entirely a Central government project, the AIADMK leader said that only they knew about the safety concerns involved. She accused...
12:01 PM, Oct 18, 2011
