Following a direction by the Prime Minister, the Department of Atomic Energy on Wednesday constituted a 15-member group of independent experts to answer questions of protesters at the Koodankulam n

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the Centre will announce the setting up of a high-level group on the Kudankulam nuclear plant issue “today or tomorrow.”

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J.

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Blaming the Centre’s “inaction” for the stalemate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant issue, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J.

A conference of the Paristhiti Samrakshana Ekopana Samithi (environment protection coordination committee) here on Monday called upon the Union government to take steps to address the fears of peop

Government's principal scientific adviser R Chidambaram on Sunday said the reactors at Koodankulam nuclear power project were safe.

The week-long anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) agitation has been suspended for two days from Sunday following local body elections in Tamil Nadu.

The anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) agitation was temporarily called off by the activists on Sunday to enable people to vote in the local body elections, a representative of the protesters said, amid reports of villagers harassing employees of the plant.

"We have decided to call off the agitation temporarily so that people could participate in the local body elections tomorrow (Monday). The work at the nuclear plant has come to a stop after our recent agitation," People's Rights Movement coordinator S. Sivasubramanian said.