Chennai: Protests escalated at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant site, after the state government gave a go ahead for the work on the plant to begin by August this year. Security has been tightened at the site and police have started cracking down on the protestors under the banner People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy. "The government is treating as bunch of terrorist, we are not unruly people. Thousand of villagers...
08:23 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Chennai: After a long gap, officials of the Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) will be participating in the power project review meeting called by the Tamil Nadu government in Chennai on Thursday, said a power sector official. "The Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu has called a review meeting of the power projects that are coming up in the state Thursday. This is a usual meeting called regularly. What is interesting...
03:25 AM, Mar 22, 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
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11:57 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's u-turn on the shutdown of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, residents and NGOs in the region on Tuesday stepped up their fight. For activists protesting the Kudankulam nuclear plant, it is the biggest blow yet. After months of keeping the 930 MW plant on hold, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's decision to give the plant the green signal has dimmed...
09:58 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has deceived the people of Kudankulam by announcing Rs 500 crore towards development of local infrastructure, DMK chief M Karunanidhi said on Tuesday. He also said Jayalalithaa was responsible for the closure of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) for the past six months. Karunanidhi said in his statement: "Yesterday (Monday) at the cabinet meeting Jayalalithaa decided to open the Kudankulam project at...
03:05 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday slammed Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for making U-turn on the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue. "Who is responsible for Koodankulam to be shut for the last six months? She kept giving false hopes to the protesters. Today people have been let down. And protesters have been cheated. Now, she has announced Rs 500 crore package for the development of the area. This act...
02:20 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: Scientists and workers have resumed work at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant amid tight security and prohibitory orders. More than 100 protesters were detained overnight on Monday. The convenor of the protest SP Udayakumar others protestors have begun a fast unto death after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's U-turn on the nuclear power plant. Jayalalithaa began crackdown on anti-nuclear activists at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant on Monday....
08:53 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa began crackdown on anti-nuclear activists at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant on Monday. Nine Kudankulam protestors have been detained. The Tamil Nadu government has also got the nuclear power plant site cleared. Seeking to end the impasse over the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue, the Jayalalilthaa government in Tamil Nadu on Monday gave the go ahead to the controversial project and announced a Rs...
02:58 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Sankarankoil: Accusing the AIADMK government of plunging Tamil Nadu into darkness, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Thursday accused it of not having the intention to operationise the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant that could give 1,000 MW of electricity to the power-starved state. "AIADMK government could not give power to the suffering people and it has no intention to go ahead with the implementation of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant scheme...
02:16 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Monday said there will be no compromise on nuclear safety or livelihood of any section of society in India's pursuit of atomic power, a statement that comes against the backdrop of anti-nuclear protests in Kudankulam and Jaitapur. Addressing a joint sitting of Parliament, President Pratibha Patil asserted that the country would more than double its nuclear power generating capacity in the 12th Five Year Plan...
12:30 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Chennai: Blaming ruling AIADMK over delay in the commissioning of Kudankulam Nuclear plant,which is mired in a controversy following protests from anti-nuclear lobby, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Sunday urged the state and Central governments to take all steps to commission it immediately. "The people should notice the escapist attitude of the state government, which is doing nothing to commission the plant but blames the Centre besides writing letters. Without...
01:09 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Mumbai: The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited is losing nearly Rs 5 crore everyday due to the delay in commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu because of protests from locals, a senior official said on Friday. "With the delay in commissioning of the project, we are losing almost Rs 5 crore everyday on maintenance and other related expenses," NPCIL technical director SA Bharadwaj told reporters. The...
08:38 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Chennai: The central government should stop harassing Christians and withdraw the negative remarks on the Tuticorin Diocese for allegedly financing the anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) protesters, said the Tamil Nadu Bishops Council (TNBC) here on Thursday. In a statement issued here, A.M. Chinnappa, archbishop of Madras-Mylapore and president of TNBC, said: "It is open secret that the central government is taking these actions against the Diocese of Tuticorin and...
10:36 AM, Mar 09, 2012
Tamil Nadu Bishop's Council has asked the Prime Minister to stop harassing the Christians. ...
08:46 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Chennai: As the Centre launched crackdown on some NGOs for allegedly fuelling protests over Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Christian leaders on Thursday said government should stop harassing the Christian minority and withdraw "negative injunctions". "We request the Prime Minister to stop harassing the Christian minority and withdraw negative injunctions issued in lieu of Tuticorin Diocese and grant appropriate relief," AM Chinnappa, Archbishop of Madras Mylapore and President of Tamil Nadu...
03:25 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Chennai: Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy on Saturday backed Tamil Nadu in its handling of the Kudankulam protests, and ruled out any dual game by the State government. Expressing optimism that work on the Kudankulam plant would start soon, the Minister told that the Centre was ready to open the plant at any time, but the law and order is the subject of State...
09:10 AM, Mar 04, 2012
The Government has frozen accounts of four NGOs because they were diverting foreign funds to fuel the Kudankulam protest. ...
09:20 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Chennai: The people's struggle against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu entered its 200th day on Friday with villagers raising Rs 100,000 for the chief minister's relief fund for the victims of Cyclone Thane that struck on Dec 30 last year, an activist said. The struggle against the two 1,000 MW reactors being built by India's nuclear power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL)...
03:17 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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...
12:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012
