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After 200 years, Paris lifts ‘ban’ on women in pants #womenrights #Vaw

Feb 05, 2013 |   Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a ban imposed over 200 years ago no longer had any legal effect. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French minister for wom-en’s rights,… Continue Reading →

New Centralized Nuclear Plants: Still an Investment Worth Making?

(Image credit: Getty Images Europe via @daylife) Just a few years ago, the US nuclear renaissance seemed at hand.  It probably shouldn’t have been.  Cost overruns from Finland to France to the US were already becoming manifest, government guarantees were in doubt, and shale… Continue Reading →

#India- In Custody: Five Years in Jail and Innocent #sedition #dissent #Prison #Justice

January 15, 2013,  By Michael Edison Hayden, Wall street journal, India  Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A man peeked through an opening of a door to a prison ward at the Tihar jail, New Delhi, April 26, 2012. This week, India… Continue Reading →

Committed to Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project, India tells France #Wtfnews

  PARIS: India on Thursday assured France of its commitment to the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in the backdrop of protests being carried out in that area against the atomic plant. External affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who held bilateral talks with his French counterpart Laurent… Continue Reading →

#India-Areva closes in on key agreement for Jaitapur plant #nuclear

Sandeep Dikshit, The Hindu, Dec 18, 2012 PTI A file photo of the site of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Unperturbed by protests against its proposed nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, Maharashtra, the French civil… Continue Reading →

Cost of Jaitapur reactors could triple to nearly Rs. 35,500 crore

  VAIJU NARAVANE, The Hindu, Dec 6,2012     EDF, the French electricity giant that has built and operated the country’s 58 nuclear reactors, has announced that the bill for the 1,650-MW, third-generation pressurised reactor known as EPR has now… Continue Reading →

French minister wants Mittal out of France

Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:06 FRANCE-ARCELOR-LAKSHMI-MITTAL:French minister wants Mittal out of France By Nicholas Vinocur and Yann Le Guernigou, moneycontrol.com PARIS (Reuters) – Steelmaker Mittal, which acquired France’s Arcelor in 2006, is no longer wanted in France due to… Continue Reading →

Al Jazeera: Report says EU nuclear reactors need $ 32 BILLION to prevent disaster!

  Report says EU nuclear reactors need repair A leaked report on Europe’s nuclear reactors found that up to $32bn needs to be invested to prevent disaster. Last Modified: 03 Oct 2012 09:23 Almost all of Europe’s nuclear reactors are in… Continue Reading →

Sayonara nuclear power

Editorial- The Hindu , sEPT 22, 2012 The much needed big push towards low-cost,, highly-efficient, cutting-edge renewable energy technologies was lacking till recently. Even the compulsion to cut down carbon dioxide emission levels by 2020 failed to overcome the inertia…. Continue Reading →

This renaissance is just a fairy tale

Nityanand Jayaraman June 15, 2012, The Hindu The unpredictable financial implications of constructing, running, decommissioning plants and handling risks are causing a global rethink on nuclear energy For a professed proponent of liberalisation and free trade, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s… Continue Reading →

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