Three lives have been lost while several others had a narrow escape in fireAccidents that have so far claimed 16 night shelters between last year and now. In the latest incident, a night shelter was destroyed in a fire early on Saturday morning leaving a nine-year-old girl charred to death. Worse still, like every year, the state government is scrambling to put in place a winter plan for the city's...
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Talks fail to end N-plant logjam
-The Hindustan Times The stalemate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu continued after protesters on Friday rejected the safety certificate issued by the central panel of experts after a three-day plant inspection. There were widespread protests against the two 1,000 MW nuclear power reactors that the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd is building with Russian technology and equipment in Kudankulam, around 650 km from Chennai. Villagers...
More »PILs can't be based solely on RTI information: SC by Dhananjay Mahapatra
Information obtained under Right To Information Act is increasingly becoming the basis of public interest petitions seeking judicial redress of grievances. The Supreme Court on Monday disapproved of this modus operandi and said from now, it would not entertain PILs solely based on RTI information. "Petitioners banking on information obtained through RTI Act must approach the concerned ministry, bring the facts to its notice and demand justice. If the ministry does...
More »No scope for change in liability regime, India will tell Obama by B Muralidhar Reddy
On the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the Asean summit in Bali, Indian officials said they did not know whether the newly notified rules for implementing the Nuclear Liability Act would address American concerns about nuclear suppliers being exposed to claims for damages in the event of an Accident but insisted that the “law of the land” could...
More »Doctor who was Saint of Smiles by Jaideep Hardikar
A life bound to a wheelchair, with speech inability and two heart attacks, would not seem like much of a life. But doctor Sharadkumar Dicksheet proved it wrong. In over four decades, Dicksheet performed over 2.5 lakh facial reconstructive surgeries for free. Until this winter, that is. He died on November 14 in Brooklyn, US. He was 81. Dicksheet has two daughters and a son from two marriages, neither of which lasted. What...
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