The five-member Empowered Committee, headed by the former Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand, at its meeting here on Monday, will examine the reports it has received from various agencies it constituted to go into the Safety of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala. In December last, the committee conducted a spot inspection of the dam. It also heard the views of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Centre on the issues framed...
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NHRC to hear Kerala MPs' plea today
-The Hindu The Full Commission of the National Human Rights Commission will hear on Monday a petition filed by some Kerala MPs alleging a “threat to life and liberty” of the people of the State and seeking its intervention in the Mullaperiyar dam row. The MPs, including P.T. Thomas and K.P. Dhanapalan (both Congress) and Jose K. Mani (Kerala Congress-M), claimed that the entire State was panic-stricken over the possible collapse of...
More »Water, not Safety, Kerala’s main issue: TN farmers by Gopu Mohan
-The Indian Express Unmoved by the blitzkrieg from Kerala about the “imminent collapse” of the Mullaperiyar dam, those in support of Tamil Nadu’s stand on the dispute argue that their neighbour’s catchy slogan ‘Safety for Kerala, water for Tamil Nadu’ does not capture the devil that is in the detail. While Kerala has pegged its campaign for a new dam completely on the Safety aspect of the older one, which it claims...
More »Nuclear Safety matter of highest priority: Security panel
-The Hindu In the backdrop of the ongoing agitation against nuclear power at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu and several other areas of the country, the Union Cabinet's Committee on Security has reiterated that the Safety of nuclear power plants is “a matter of the highest priority” for the government. The panel, which reviewed the Safety of nuclear power plants at a meeting here on Thursday, said the government had decided to invite...
More »World on brink of another economic meltdown and recession: UN
-PTI The United Nations has warned that the world is on the brink of another recession, projecting that global economic growth will slow down further in 2012 and even emerging powerhouses like India and China, which led the recovery last time, will get bogged down. The UN 'World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012' report has cut the global growth forecast for next year to 2.6 per cent from 4 per cent in...
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