Kudankulam: Valliyoor court has issued a non-bailable warrant against anti-nuclear movement leader SP Udayakumar. Udayakumar has been in hiding and the police have been on a lookout for him. Udayakumar is at the forefront of the campaign against the Kudankulam nuclear Power Plant. Udayakumar's wife has claimed he has done nothing wrong. "I know these are false charges. He hasn't done any harm. Hopefully everything will turn out to be...
03:07 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Kudankulam: Former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan, who was on his way to join the Kudankulam protest at the nuclear reactor site, has been stopped. The police stopped him at Kalikavil near the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. The senior Kerala CPM leader was not allowed to proceed to Kudankulam by the police. Meanwhile, PMANE activist SP Udayakumar's wife Meera has appeared in a Valliyoor court. The anti-nuke activist was summoned by...
11:19 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Kudankulam (TN): Around 250 people were on Sunday arrested in Tuticorin after being stopped from heading towards anti-nuclear agitators here who, in a fresh form of protest against loading of fuel in Kudankuklam plant, buried themselves upto waist in beach sand. The slogan-shouting protesters, who were held for violating police regulatory orders after being denied permission for the march, were later let off. A 'solidarity march' by cultural leaders from...
10:24 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Backing the Kudankulam nuclear power project to the hilt, Congress on Friday cautioned the protesters against becoming a votary of "environmental fundamentalism". Party spokesman PC Chacko said that the government was willing to talk to all concerned. "We have been able to convince the Tamil Nadu government. We will be able to convince the people of Tamil Nadu" "Unfortunatley, the matter is being disproportionately blown up. It is...
04:19 AM, Sep 15, 2012
Kudankulam: It's day 7 of protests in Kudankulum. The villagers were back into the sea for the second consecutive day on Friday forming a human chain to protest against the nuke plant. About 40 to 50 people resumed the 'Jal Satyagraha' and more are expected to join later in the day. Earlier on Thursday, the protestors received a setback from the Supreme Court as it refused to stay the loading...
12:14 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Kudankulam: It's day seven of the anti-nuclear plant protests in Kudankulam, and there is no sign of relief for protestors. The Supreme Court had on Thursday refused to stay the loading of fuel in the reactors. The villagers formed human chains to protest in the sea on Thursday demanding that the project be stopped. Even as the government told the Supreme Court during a hearing on a petition against loading...
09:55 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Hundreds of villagers formed a human chain along the coastline of Idinthikarai in south Tamil Nadu. ...
07:01 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Kudankulam/New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the loading of fuel into the Kudankulam nuclear plant even as the villagers formed human chains to protest in the sea demanding that the project be stopped. Even as the government told the Supreme Court during a hearing on a petition against loading of fuel that the plant was safe, the court observed that the safety of those living in...
04:59 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) chairman SS Bajaj admitted that all safety recommendations have not been followed. ...
04:12 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Minister of State of PMO Narayanasamy has alleged that the protest against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is foreign-funded and there are vested interests involved. ...
03:48 PM, Sep 13, 2012
The villagers protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday entered sea water and started a 'Jal Satyagraha' demanding the loading of uranium fuel in the reactors be stopped. ...
03:33 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is growing. One of the fears highlighted by the protesters is the threat of seismological activity on the nuclear power plant.Most of India falls in the moderate risk to very high risk seismic zones and so do a majority of India's nuclear reactors. The map below plots India's nuclear power plants on a seismic map. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Kudankulam: Kudankulam witnessed a sea of protestors as the agitation against the nuclear power plant turned into a 'Jal Satyagraha' on Thursday. Hundreds of protestors entered the sea waters against the loading of fuel into the reactors of the plant. The protestors raised black flags and formed human chains in the sea as more and more people continued to join the 'Jal Satyagraha'. The protestors also included women and children...
12:49 PM, Sep 13, 2012
One of the Kudankulam activists said that they will continue to protest at sea and are ready to sacrifice their lives for the cause. ...
12:08 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Kudankulam: 2.48 pm: The Supreme Court to hear on September 20 the plea against commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. The Center told the Supreme Court that loading of fuel is just a first step, production will begin two months after the fuel is loaded. 2.41 pm: No stay on loading of fuel into Kudankulam plant for now. The Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments of both sides. 1:05...
11:42 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan's plea for an immediate stay on the Kudankulam plant's operation will come up for hearing on Thursday. ...
10:27 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Kudankulam: The anti-nuclear plant agitation in Kudankulam is expected to worsen on Thursday, with villagers and activists threatening to protest by entering the sea, turning the agitation into a 'Jal Satyagraha'. This comes on a day the plant will start loading uranium fuel in one of the two reactors. In fact, a significant development is expected on Thursday on the plea against the move in the Supreme Court. Lawyer Prashant...
07:52 AM, Sep 13, 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
Dramatic scenes in Madhya Pradesh as the state used force to evict a group of villagers protesting in neck deep water. ...
11:31 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kudankulam (TN): Taking a cue from 'Jal Satyagraha' activists in Madhya Pradesh, opponents of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Wednesday threatened to stand in the sea off Idianthakarai coast from Thursday as a stepped-up form of agitation. Sources in People's Movement of Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is spearheading the stir, said the agitators have put forward four demands - stoppage of the process of fuel-loading in KNPP, giving up...
10:50 PM, Sep 12, 2012
