With the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project coming closer, anti-nuclear activists are upping the ante once again. CNN-IBN's senior correspondent Meenakshi Mahadevan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the anti-nuke protests. ...
12:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Russia's Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin said that opinions on Kudankulam plant must be respected, but asserted that it was completely safe. ...
04:40 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Ending speculations that she could be getting ready to contest the 2014 General Elections, Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday stressed that she was not joining politics. ...
11:59 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kudankulam: As the situation in Kudankulam continued to remain tense, DMK supremo Karunanidhi blamed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for the violence. "There has been a death. There has been violence against protestors who were protesting peacefully. The police and the state are responsible for this violence at Kudankulam. The Jaya government has deployed police forces to curb the protests," Karunanidhi said. Villagers alleged that the police were destroying their...
03:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kudankulam: The situation in Kudankulam continues be tense. The villagers have now alleged that the police were carrying out searches at their homes. The villagers allege that the police have destroyed their property while searching their homes. Anti-nuclear movement leader SP Udayakumar may be be arrested on Wednesday even as more support comes in from India against corruption. IAC member and social activist Arvind Kejriwal is also likely to join...
12:01 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Coal controller recommends de-allocation of Naveen Jindal's company. Former Goa CMs Digambar Kamat and Pratapsingh Rane face arrest. ...
11:50 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kudankulam: Anti-nuclear activist SP Udayakumar has appealed to the protestors at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant to allow him and three others to surrender peacefully on Tuesday night in the presence of a national leader. Addressing the protestors at the nuclear plant, Udayakumar accused the police of spreading false information about the protestors. He said that the police was spreading false information that the protestors had taken policemen as hostage,...
05:04 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kudankulam: The village of Kudankulam remained tense on Tuesday as the stand-off between anti-nuclear plant villagers and police continues. Reports say the leader of the protest SP Udayakumar and a few others are likely to court arrest later in the day. Anti-nuclear protesters continued with their relay fast at the epicentre of protests, condemning the action against anti-KNPP activists. Tens of thousands of protesters spent the night camping in open...
12:54 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kudankulam: The village of Kudankulam remained tense on Tuesday as the stand-off between anti-nuclear plant villagers and the police continues. Tens of thousands of protestors spent Monday night camping in open against the nuclear plant. Many protestors are continuing their hunger strike. They're opposing the loading of uranium at the reactor, rumoured to take place on Tuesday. On Monday, the protests spread to Tuticorin where one farmer died in police...
08:40 AM, Sep 11, 2012
The situation remains tense at Tuticorin railway station in the neighbouring district from where protesters have been attempting to travel to Kudankulam. ...
11:48 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kudankulam: The protests over the Kudankulam nuclear power plant on Monday turned violent and even led to the death of one fisherman in the police firing. The violent protests also compelled Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to issue a statement calling for an end to the whole stir. The fisherman was killed as the police had to open fire in the evening following day-long clashes to control the anti-nuclear...
11:30 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa appeals for peace as one fisherman gets killed in police firing at Kudankulam. ...
10:11 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kudankulam: One fisherman was killed as police opened fire to control the anti-nuclear power plant protesters in Kudankulam on Monday. Police opened fire in the evening following day-long clashes in the area between the fishermen and the police force. The police charged at the protestors after they set on fire a house in the area. The protestors also blocked the Tuticorin-Nagercoil highway and tried to stop the Mysore Express train...
05:58 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Kudankulam: Fresh violence has broken out between the protestors and the police at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. In the latest incident, the police charged at the protestors after they set on fire a house in the area. The protestors also blocked the Tuticorin-Nagercoil highway and tried to block Mysore Express train at Tuticorin railway station. One protester has been injured in the clashes with police. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister...
05:05 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Chennai: Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. "We have decided to go on hunger protest once again from May 1 onwards as the state government has gone against its assurances given to us. A large...
12:00 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Tirunelveli: The condition of five persons including SP Udayakumar, who are fasting for the last eight days as part the Kudankulam agitation, worsened on Tuesday with doctors advising shifting them to a hospital, officials said. The anti-nuclear power plant activists led by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMNE) are on an indefinite fast after the Tamil Nadu government gave its go-ahead to the Indo-Russian project on March 19, clearing decks...
12:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Sivaganga: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said there was "some ulterior motive" behind continuance of the protest against the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam despite assurance from the government that it is safe. Addressing Congress Workers in Sivaganga on Sunday, he expressed serious concern over the power crisis in Tamil Nadu and asked the state government to take steps to find an early solution to the problem. On the stir...
12:12 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Chennai: Around 500 people including MDMK chief Vaiko have been arrested after police stopped them from marching towards Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Second 144 has been imposed in and around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant site. The renewed protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant enter the fifth day on Friday. The arrests come amidst the continuous crackdown on protestors by the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu. The crackdown began...
02:39 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Chennai: As the renewed protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant enter the fifth day on Friday, statistics show that the government is losing close to Rs 10 lakh a day due to the protests on the project that cost over Rs 13,000 crore to set up. Work at the Indo-Russian project, which was at a standstill following eight month-long protests by locals spearheaded by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy...
08:13 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Chennai: The police is not allowing live media coverage from the protest site near the Kudankulam nuclear plant. Police had earlier stopped the media from entering the site from where protestors had been arrested over the last two days. More than 100 protesters were detained overnight on Monday. The convenor of the protest SP Udayakumar others protestors began a fast unto death after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's U-turn...
09:47 AM, Mar 21, 2012
