-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses of the Centre, Atomic Energy Regulatory Body (AERB) and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) on a petition alleging that the regulatory body gave clearance to Kudankulam nuclear Power Plant ignoring the court-asserted safety aspects of the plant. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri issued notices to the respondents on an appeal filed...
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When Calamity Strikes, Think Local -Malini Shankar
-IPS News Bhubaneswar: More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state are still feeling its wrath. Besides the damage to their homes and hearths, it has also meant a loss of their traditional food. "Calamities like Cyclone Phailin affect all equally, but the tribes are far more vulnerable to the impact of calamities because of lesser resilience," Special Relief Commissioner P.K. Mahapatra tells IPS. This...
More »Back from the brink -M Suchitra
-Down to Earth A Kerala village grows organic pokkali rice after 25 years Harvest of pokkali rice in Kerala's Ezhupunna village, which began on October 27 and lasted three weeks, was nothing short of a local event. After all, the indigenous, saline and flood-resistant rice variety was cultivated in the village after 25 years. People in the village had to wage a long battle to be able to cultivate the crop once...
More »Patkar Raises Pitch Against Proposed Nuclear Plant in AP
-Outlook Srikakulam: Activist Medha Patkar has opposed a nuclear Power Plant coming up at Kovvada village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. "After the Fukushima incident, there is a largescale opposition to nuclear power but the Government of India is still pushing the project, apparently under the pressure of the US," alleged Patkar, convener of the National Alliance of People's Movement. She was addressing a meeting of local fishermen who are opposing the...
More »Helen tapers off, toll mounts to six
-The Hindu Hyderabad: Severe tropical cyclone Helen tapered off into a low pressure area on Saturday causing extensive damage to standing paddy crop and leaving six dead in the four districts of coastal Andhra region. According to official reports, six persons - two each in Krishna and East Godavari and one each in Srikakulam and West Godavari - were dead while paddy crop spread over 3.5 lakh hectares suffered extensive damage. In...
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