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Indo-US Nuclear Deal: From Farce to Skullduggery?

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: From Farce to Skullduggery?

Manmohan Singh government is looking to use the ‘manufactured’ opinion of the Attorney-General of India to effectively sabotage a key provision of India’s nuclear liability law that would hold American reactor suppliers liable in the event of an accident caused by faulty or defective equipment.

Koodankulam: a lethal game of chance we must shun

Koodankulam: a lethal game of chance we must shun

Koodankulam July 11, 2013 at 12:05 pm 1 comment

The depredation has gone to such an extent that PMO is putting extreme pressure for the commissioning of the plant even at the risk of millions of lives just to cater to the Russian rulers and their commercial interests! Reacting in panic, nuclear establishment is committing one blunder after another, rendering KKNPP unsafe and unreliable!

Gorakhpur Nuclear Project: Farmers Rise to Protest Against Usurping Irrigation Water

Gorakhpur Nuclear Project: Farmers Rise to Protest Against Usurping Irrigation Water

As per the original Bhakra water sharing agreement of 1959 between Punjab and Rajasthan water is meant only for irrigation and hydel power generation. Therefore diverting a huge quantity of 320 cusecs, meant to irrigate over 130,000 acres (allocation of 2.25 cusecs per 1000 acre) for a nuclear power plant is illegal and violative of Right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant – From Supreme Court to People’s Court?

Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant – From Supreme Court to People’s Court?

Koodankulam, Nuclear and Democracy May 14, 2013 at 8:11 am 2 comments

We are a Democracy and VOX POPULI is VOX DEI–‘Voice of the People is Voice of God’. But is mere voice enough? To seek assurance, ground forces should draw on the famous clarion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “It is infinitely difficult to begin when mere words must remove a great block of matter. But there is no other way if none of the material strength is on your side. And a shout in the mountains has been known to cause an avalanche”