Chennai: A big setback came for the Centre in trying to resolve the Kudankulam nuclear plant crisis as villagers on Sunday refused to accept the endorsement by former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, also known as the father of India's missile programme. Villagers are expected to intensify their agitation against the plant. The father of India's missile programme APJ Abdul Kalam has given his stamp of approval to the controversial...
07:44 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Chennai: Officials of the Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) employed at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu hope to resume normal work soon, said a project official. "With the latest developments at the centre and state level, we are confident of going back to work and make an assessment of the situation at the plant," K. Balaji, project director, KNPP, told reporters on...
03:55 PM, Nov 03, 2011
On Board PM's Special Plane: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the committee promised by him to convince stakeholders in the Kudankulam nuclear power project would be set up by Thursday. However, he regretted that his letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on the subject had not reached her, an issue on which she had criticised him. "Well I am sorry. I have seen that comment," he...
11:28 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday took on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for blaming the Centre's "inaction" for stalemate in the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue and accused the state government of adopting an "ostrich-like attitude". It is a "pitiable situation" to see those who criticised me for writing to the Prime Minister on the Sri Lankan issue resorting to it now, Karunanidhi said. On Jayalalithaa's remarks that the Centre was...
05:18 PM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday wrote a letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and sought her support on the Kudankulam nuclear plant project. The PM has assured Jayalalithaa that nothing will be done that would threaten the safety or the livelihood of the locals. This is the second time the PM has written to Jayalaithaa on the issue. In his first letter also, the PM ...
03:40 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday wrote a letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and sought her support on the Kudankulam nuclear plant project. The PM has assured Jayalalithaa that nothing will be done that would threaten the safety or the livelihood of the locals. This is the second time the PM has written to Jayalaithaa on the issue. In his first letter also, the PM...
02:06 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Chennai: Protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu has intensified with the villagers of the area demanding that the project be scrapped. Several hundred villagers are protesting against the nuclear power plant and have decided to indefinitely fast near the proposed Kudankulam nuclear plant site. More than 100 villagers are on indefinite fast and several others have joined the relay hunger strike. They are demanding the closure of...
05:03 PM, Oct 11, 2011
