Goa wants `nuke-guru` Anil Kakodkar as president

Last Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 12:59

Goa`s top industry body, scientists and local intelligentsia are pitching hard to put a `nuke-guru` Anil Kakodkar in the presidential race.

Panel to submit rail safety reports Friday

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 18:39

The high-level rail safety review is understood to have favoured separate cadres for diesel and electric locomotive drivers and upgrading tracks.

‘N-liability rules best in current situation’

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 23:22

Former Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar on Wednesday said the measures have been debated enough and it was time the industry moved on with it.

Anil Kakodkar to head railway safety panel

Last Updated: Friday, September 16, 2011, 19:07

Indian Railways Friday set up a high-level committee, headed by former Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar, to review "long-term safety needs" of the national transporter.

Nuclear energy inevitable option for India: Experts

Last Updated: Monday, May 23, 2011, 21:03

Nuclear energy will continue to be an inevitable option for India as other alternative renewable energy sources, including solar, will take few more years to establish as a commercially viable technology, according to scientists.

Nukes are "weapons of peace": Anil Kakodkar

Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:42

Nuclear weapons are "weapons of peace" which act as a deterrent, says former Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar.

Kakodkar a liar, says N-scientist Santhanam

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 00:21

Accusing former AEC chief Anil Kakodkar of "ignoring facts" K Santhanam called him "a liar".

AEC chief Kakodkar downplays terror threat

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 11:39

AEC chairman Anil Kakodkar has said work on India`s nuclear programmes will continue as usual despite media reports of the country`s nuke power plants being placed on alert and being made more secure to prevent a terror strike.

Anil Kakodkar to head panel for reforms in IITs

Last Updated: Monday, October 19, 2009, 18:47

To bring research to the forefront in the IITs and increase its role in national development projects, the government today set up a committee which will suggest a broad roadmap for the institutes for next ten years.

Develop seeds, crop varieties tolerant to drought: Kakodkar

Last Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 21:34

Weather would become more erratic in the coming years due to climate change and the country needed to come out with drought-tolerant seeds and crop varieties to promote food security and boost agricultural output.

Climate change disaster impending, warns Kakodkar

Last Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 16:12

To pay for the air you breathe? Well, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar believes it is a possibility in the not too distant future.

India plans to set up 20 units of indigenous PHWR

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 00:38

India is planning to set up 20 units of indigenous 700 MW of PHWR type reactors and the Centre has already agreed, in principle, for four such units, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Anil Kakodkar, said on Tuesday.