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
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday appealed to people not to fall prey to the "designs" of anti-nuclear lobbyists and defended the police action, in which one fisherman was killed during protests in Tuticorin against the Kudankulam atomic power project. Jayalalithaa, who reviewed the situation following violence during the anti-nuclear agitation, slammed the protestors saying it was not proper on their part to try to stall works even...
03:20 AM, Sep 11, 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
Kudankulam: The police cracked down on anti-nuclear protesters at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu on Monday. Police moved in to chase the protesters at Kudankulam and fired tear gas shells. Thousands of protesters fled towards the ocean and threw slippers, shoes and small stones at the police force. After the protesters were sandwiched between the police force of one side and the ocean on the other side,...
12:14 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Police blocked hundreds of villagers who were attempting to the march to the plant to protest the loading of fuel in the coming days. ...
11:55 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Kudankulam: The situation in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu is tense as locals have renewed their agitation in a big way against the nuclear plant. They are protesting against the loading of nuclear fuel in the reactors, which is likely to get done over the next few days. Once again, the simmering protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has boiled over to the streets. Villagers tried to march to the...
08:38 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Police however have imposed section 144 in around the Kudankulam nuclear plant and closed all entry points. ...
10:40 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Idinthakarai: As hundreds of protesters gathered in Idinthakarai to carry out a peaceful march to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, police blocked all main roads to the plant. The tight security arrangements by the police have, however, failed to deter the protesters who said if the police would stop them, they will sit down and protest. Police said around 400 Rapid Action Force personnel besides 2,000 state police personnel are...
02:33 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has decided to embark on a month-long yatra from September 11 in poll-bound Gujarat, which will cover major parts of the state. Interestingly, the name of Modi's yatra is Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra, which will begin on the day when spiritual leader Swami Vivekanada made his historic speech at the Chicago Conference of World Religions, 150 years ago. "The yatra will start from Becharaji...
03:02 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Auto components maker Rico Auto Industries on Wednesday said it will hire up to 500 people for its three upcoming plants. "We are setting up three new plants, two in Bawal and one in Chennai. There will be new hiring of 400-500 people for these plants," Rico Auto Industries Managing Director Arvind Kapur said. Speaking on the sidelines of the annual convention of Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of...
07:21 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday said it expects to have full employee strength at its troubled Manesar plant by the end of September with the completion of fresh recruitments. "The regularisation of contract workers and new recruitments are going on and this will be over in the next 10 days. By the last week of September, our total manpower will be in place at Manesar plant," MSI...
01:32 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Ranchi: The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) party workers on Monday protested outside the state Assembly demanding rehabilitation of those displaced during the construction of the Bokaro Steel Plant. One of the party workers died after the police lathicharged them as they tried to break through a barricade set up outside the Assembly. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, a JVM (Prajatantric) MLA tore off his shirt in the Assembly to press...
03:31 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Chennai: A day after the Madras High Court cleared decks for the commissioning of unit-1 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, a senior official at the plant on Saturday said they would commence loading real fuel in the Indo-Russian venture by the end of next week. "We are presently doing the preparatory work. A team from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board is expected next week. They will inspect the site and...
04:22 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Chennai: For the first time in the city, a fertility centre has launched embryoscopy, a technology that chooses the best embryo for implantation by increasing the current success rates of infertility treatments. This comes as a boon for childless couple who have been trying hard for a baby through IVF (Invitrio Fertilization) methods, observed Dr C Geetha Haripriya, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and chairperson of Prashanth Hospital at a press meet...
03:16 PM, Aug 31, 2012
The Madras High Court on Friday gave the go-ahead for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant saying that a fresh environment clearance was not required. ...
02:56 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday gave a go-ahead to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) saying there are no environmental issues associated with the building of the plant. The court also ordered the setting up of schools and a hospital around the plant premises. A PIL had sought environmental clearance for the project before the plant is commissioned. The PIL had also sought a ban on Russian reactors...
11:27 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court is expected to deliver its verdict on a PIL seeking a fresh environment clearance for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Friday. The PIL sought environmental clearance for the project before the plant is commissioned. The PIL has also sought a ban on Russian reactors to be installed at the plant. ...
08:08 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava was perplexed at the company's shareholders' meeting on 28 August. He said he could not understand the rage behind the ...
07:59 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu pollution control board on Wednesday issued a fresh order of clearance for effluent discharge from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. The board has now fixed a maximum of 7 degrees above ambient temperature as compared to 45 degrees earlier. On Friday, the Madras High Court will also decide on a PIL seeking a stay on the installation of two 1,000 Megawatt Russian reactors at the...
12:19 PM, Aug 29, 2012
