Coinciding with the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to India, hundreds of people today staged a protest near Jaitapur, the site of the proposed nuclear power project to be built in collaboration with the France-based company Areva.
The protesters included environmentalists, villagers and farmers, who do not want to give away their land for the mega project in the coastal Ratnagiri dis
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