To assuage the fears of the locals and the Tamil Nadu government, the Centre on Thursday announced setting up of a 15-member group of experts over the Koodankulam nuclear plant project.

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As anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday resumed their protest at Kudankulam, they got a boost from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa who reiterated that New Delhi must not proceed with the nuclea

North Korea and the United States will hold a second round of talks in Geneva next week to discuss ways to restart regional talks on disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, South Korean media

Villagers protesting against Tamil Nadu's Koodankulam nuclear plant project have called off their hunger strike, temporarily.

Reports claim the stir was called off to ensure smooth functioning of the

The anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) agitation was temporarily called off by the activists on Sunday to enable people to vote in the local body elections, a representative of the proteste

A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo, reports said on Thursday as researchers carry out stringent tests to map how far contamination has spread from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

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Anti-nuke protesters who gathered at Idinthakarai in Tamil Nadu on Sunday set October 11 as the deadline for the central government to completely halt work at the Koodankulam nuclear power project sit

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Fukushima area on Monday, but a nuclear plant there that was crippled by a huge quake and tsunami in March remained stable, officials said.

The offshore quake

Breaking the brief truce, more than 7,000 people today observed a token fast against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP) and vowed to intensify the struggle if the government did not scrap it.

Democratic protests against nuclear plants are the flavour of the season.

What began in Jaitapur has come down south to Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu and protests are bound to spread across the country