New Delhi/Mumbai: India and Russia on Tuesday signed a protocol for Russian funding for units III and IV at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu, even as expectations are rising over likely operationalisation of units I and II anytime soon. The protocol was signed in Moscow, even as India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin discussed at their bilateral talks the contours...
03:14 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Chennai: The official claim of having conducted a mandatory three-stage emergency drill at Nakkaneri hamlet, situated within 7 km from the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tirunelveli district, on June 9 was termed 'a blatant lie' by the People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL), which sent a fact-finding team to the place on June 13 and 20, after the villagers denied the version of the authorities. No drill was...
08:24 AM, Jul 08, 2012
Putdukottai: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday said load-shedding prone Tamil Nadu would soon be converted into a power-surplus state. "I am personally monitoring the power situation in the state. I would like to assure that the state will soon be made power-surplus," she told a rally here for the June 12 by-election to Pudukottai assembly constituency. AIADMK nominee Karthi Thondaiman is facing DMDK's Jakir Hussain in the bypoll in which...
03:40 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday urged New Delhi to provide Rs 300 crore separately to build basic infrastructure for people living around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), stressing on her government's efforts in ending the anti-plant protests. "It will not be proper for the government to meet the commitment of Rs 300 crore towards this by adjusting the fund into the state's already entitled...
08:21 PM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Anti-nuclear and rights group on Friday held a noisy demonstration in front of the Indian High Commission here in protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant being built in a tsunami-prone area of Tamil Nadu. Protesters held a large red banner proclaiming "No More Chernobyls! No more Fukushimas! No Nuclear Power Plant in Kudankulam." The protesters, representing South Asian, anti-nuclear and human rights group such as South Asia Solidarity...
02:49 AM, May 19, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) on Tuesday received three bomb threat letters. Two threat letters addressed to a contract worker working at KKNPP and another letter send to KKNPP administration were received at the plant on Tuesday, Police sources said.The sender, Tirunelveli Pothunala Kuzhu (Tirunelveli Public Welfare Committee), said that the contract worker and another worker were sent for planting bombs at KKNPP.The letter instructs them to plant...
10:29 AM, May 17, 2012
Chennai: Youth in villages around Kudankulam, where people are agitating against the setting up of the nuclear power plant, are unable to take up jobs abroad as passports are being denied to them, it was alleged at a public hearing in Chennai on Monday. About a dozen villagers deposed at the public hearing on 'Kudankulam and State Supression of Democratic Rights, coming up with startling revelations on the harassment they...
08:32 AM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: There was no accident at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) as has been made out in some quarters, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) asserted on Tuesday. N. Nagaich, Executive Director (Corporate Planning & Communications), said in a statement that some miscreants have been spreading rumours through SMSs of an accident having taken place at the plant. The messages said that a boiler burst at the...
04:49 PM, May 08, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In the midst of Tamil Nadu demanding that the Centre allocate the entire power to be generated by the Kudankulam nuclear plant to it, Kerala has staked claim for 500 MW from the project. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has asked the Centre to provide 500 MW from the KNPP located in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district in view of acute power crisis...
10:59 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Is the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant going to be the next Mullaiperiyar for Tamil Nadu and Kerala? The two states have already started letter wars over the soon-to-be-commissioned Kudankulam power plant as has been in the of the Mullaiperiyar Dam. As a counter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithas's letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, where she staked claim to the entire power from Kudankulam for TN, Kerala...
02:51 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday are set to resume their fast to protest against the controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant. They have condemned the Tamil Nadu government for not delivering on assurances that were made during talks last month. The plant is likely to be commissioned within one month. Protesters, including people of villages in and around Kudankulam, have been demanding scrapping of the Indo-Russian project since August last, citing...
07:15 AM, May 01, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: The second unit of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project (KKNPP) may become operational by year-end, hinted Atomic Energy Commission chairman and Department of Atomic Energy secretary Srikumar Banerjee. Banerjee, who addressed presspersons along with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) managing director S K Jain at the KKNPP site on Thursday, said that with the cooperation of the Tamil Nadu government, work at Unit-1 and Unit-2 was...
09:35 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Chennai: With the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant all set to commence power generation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday demanded that the entire power produced from it be given to the state. "Now I understand that nuclear fuel loading is going to take place in the next few days in the first unit of the plant of 1000 MW capacity. It is expected that...
02:26 PM, Apr 25, 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
New Delhi: The government has in a fresh order asked all foreign outfits in India to furnish it with updated details of their workers and nature of their work, at least once a year. The close watch on foreign entities in India follows the revelations that anti-Kudankulam nuclear stir in Tamil Nadu was funded by NGOs in the US. According to a circular from the union home ministry, foreign companies,...
05:00 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Kudankulam: Extending support to the agitation against the anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant, social activist Swami Agnivesh on Wednesday said government has to decide on scrapping the project and protecting people. He claimed that the Archbiship of Thiruvanathapuram Susai Packiam, would visit Kudankulam next week, to extend support to the People's Movement against Nuclear energy spearheading the stir against KNPP at Idinthakarai near Kudankulam. He also claimed that CPI-M leader V...
11:19 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Chennai: Work at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) was not affected in the wake of massive earthquake in Indonesia triggering fears of tsunami though the plant is "generally on alert," a top official said on Wednesday. "We received the alert from Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Hyderabad and we are generally on alert. But our work is continuing," M Kasinath Balaji, Site Director, Kudankulam Nuclear Power...
06:38 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday termed Sri Lanka's objections to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu as 'unacceptable'. "The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant did not start yesterday; it has been there for a long time. Today, if Lanka raises doubts about Kudankulam, it is not acceptable. I don't have to tell what the Central government has to do, I'm sure they'll act accordingly," Karunanidhi said. Karunanidhi's...
12:17 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Sri Lanka has threatened to go to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claiming it is threatened by the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. Colombo has said that it is concerned about safety in case of a Fukushima-like disaster that may hurt the Island nation. The official raising of concern with the International Atomic Energy is to be made in September, the power and energy minister...
10:00 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Tiruchirapalli: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday defended India supporting the US sponsored resolution at UN's top human rights body censuring Sri Lanka for alleged rights violations in the war against LTTE, saying it would not have been carried as expected if the country had hesitated. "Had we not rendered our support, things would have been different... had we hestitated even a little, the resolution would not have been carried...
11:56 PM, Apr 07, 2012
