The green signal to the 9,900-MW Jaitapur reactor has wider implicationsIt has been in the eye of the storm almost ever since it was conceived. Last week, the government gave the go-ahead to the 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Once completed, it would be the single-largest power plant in India.
MUMBAI: Alarmed by the massive damage caused to food crops the agricultural produce by monkeys, neighbouring the Ratnagiri zilla parishad has prepared an ambitious Rs 50 lakh plan to tackle the menace.
''Farmers in the Konkan region were facing a lot of problems due to the increasing monkey menace in the entire Konkan region were passing through a critical period owing to exponential growth in
Maharashtra government has informed Bombay high court that it has initiated criminal prosecution against two activists, including a retired high court judge, protesting against the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power plant for violating restrain orders.
The high court is hearing a petition filed by the retired judge BG Kolse Patil and social activist Vaishali Patil challenging the restrain order pa
Jaitapur n-plant will put the extremely rich bio-diversity area to great risk and destroy environment, warn activists
Activists who took part in a national anti-nuclear plant yatra from Tarapur, the site of the country's oldest nuclear reactor, to Jaitapur earlier this week have taken strong exception to the Union Government's decision to go ahead with the first phase of the controversial nucle
A day after refusing to stop work on the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP), government managers said new compensation package worth approximately Rs 400 crore was in the works.
This includes individual payouts of up to Rs 10 lakh per acre to affected families, besides targetted infrastructure projects for community development in the fields of education, health, civic amenities as well as b
New Delhi The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Monday revoked the moratorium on sand mining in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts for two years following the state government's plea that the ban is affecting infrastructure projects.
From supporting the India-US nuclear deal and slamming the Left on it, the Shiv Sena is now protesting against the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra
Two days after Tabrez Sayekar was killed in police firing near Jaitapur, the deadlock between the villagers and local authorities ended on Wednesday afternoon following which the villagers accepted the victim
Police caned protesters and imposed an indefinite curfew in Ratnagiri town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as tension mounted Tuesday, a day after a local fisherman who was part of a mob rioting against the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, was shot dead by police.
Tabrez Tehekar of Nate village was killed in the firing Monday afternoon.
The protests over a nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, which claimed one life yesterday and erupted in street clashes and stone-throwing today, appears to be driven by a local political impulse
