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SC dismisses review plea by Vedanta against closure of copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi
1 month, 3 weeks ago

SC dismisses review plea by Vedanta against closure of copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a review plea filed by Vedanta group against the closure of its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi. The top court had on February 29 dismissed Vedanta's plea for re-opening of its copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, closed since May 2018 over pollution concerns, while underlining the importance of health and welfare …

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DGP reviews law and order situation, action taken against drug peddlers in southern districts
3 months, 2 weeks ago

DGP reviews law and order situation, action taken against drug peddlers in southern districts

The Hindu  

Director-General of Police Shankar Jiwal chaired a review meeting here with the top police officers to assess the law and order situation in the four southern districts and also on prevention of drug trafficking. Inspector General of Police Prem Anand Sinha, Tirunelveli Commissioner of Police Rupesh Kumar Meena, Deputy Inspector General of Police Pa. Moorthy, Tirunelveli Superintendent of Police N. …

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N. Muruganandam is Tamil Nadu’s Chief Secretary
4 months, 3 weeks ago

N. Muruganandam is Tamil Nadu’s Chief Secretary

The Hindu  

Ahead of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s official visit to the U.S., the Tamil Nadu government on Monday appointed senior IAS officer N. Muruganandam as the Chief Secretary, replacing Shiv Das Meena. Mr. Muruganandam is a 1991-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre. Mr. Meena, who is set to retire in October, has been appointed chairperson of the Tamil Nadu …

Tamil Nadu State Secretary Meena Thoothukudi Collector Mr Muruganandam
2018 TN firing: SC stays HC order for probe into assets of officials
5 months, 1 week ago

2018 TN firing: SC stays HC order for probe into assets of officials

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a July 15 order by the Madras high court that directed an investigation into the assets of police and revenue officials involved in the 2018 Thoothukudi firing, which resulted in the deaths of 13 people during protests against the Vedanta-owned Sterlite Copper plant in Tamil Nadu. Admitting the matter, the bench issued notice on …

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2018 Firing At Anti-Sterlite Protests | Supreme Court Stays Madras HC Order For Probe Into Assets Of Police & Govt Officials
5 months, 1 week ago

2018 Firing At Anti-Sterlite Protests | Supreme Court Stays Madras HC Order For Probe Into Assets Of Police & Govt Officials

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on August 2 stayed the Madras High Court order which directed a fresh investigation by the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti–Corruption into the assets of the police and government officials accused in the 2018 Thoothukudi Police Firing at the anti-Sterlite protests. On July 15 the High Court directed the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and …

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The Madras HC order on Thoothukudi firing brings into focus the industry-police nexus
5 months, 1 week ago

The Madras HC order on Thoothukudi firing brings into focus the industry-police nexus

Hindustan Times  

The Madras High Court on Monday directed Tamil Nadu's directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption to investigate the assets of police and revenue personnel involved in the 2018 Thoothukudi Sterlite police firing, in which 13 protesters were killed and 33 wounded. Six years later, a Division Bench of Justices S.S. Sundar and N. Senthilkumar has ordered that the assets acquired by …

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Punish ‘anti-people’ DMK, ‘betrayer’ EPS in Lok Sabha polls, says T.T.V. Dhinakaran
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Punish ‘anti-people’ DMK, ‘betrayer’ EPS in Lok Sabha polls, says T.T.V. Dhinakaran

The Hindu  

The people of Tamil Nadu should severely punish the “anti-people” DMK government and trounce the Edappadi K. Palaniswami-led AIADMK, which have come to a “secret understanding” for personal gains, in the upcoming Parliamentary elections, AMMK general secretary T.T.V. Addressing a public meeting organised in Palayamkottai here on Wednesday night, Mr. Dhinakaran said the Stalin-led DMK came to power as the …

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‘Tamil Nadu government spent ₹5.60 crore on Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry’
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Tamil Nadu government spent ₹5.60 crore on Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry’

The Hindu  

A sum of ₹5.60 crore was spent on the Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry that was formed by the Tamil Nadu government to probe the police firing at the anti-Sterlite protesters in 2018 in Thoothukudi, which killed 13 persons, according to a response to queries filed under the Right to Information Act. A total of around ₹11.17 crore was …

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Thoothukudi police firing | Madras HC questions Tamil Nadu govt. over NHRC investigation division’s report
1 year, 3 months ago

Thoothukudi police firing | Madras HC questions Tamil Nadu govt. over NHRC investigation division’s report

The Hindu  

The Madras High Court on September 22 wanted to know whether the Tamil Nadu government had received a copy of a report submitted by the National Human Rights Commission’s investigation division on the May 22, 2018 police firing, in which 13 anti-Sterlite protesters were killed in Thoothukudi. The judges felt that the report of the investigation division need not have …

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Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanniyakumari
1 year, 6 months ago

Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Kanniyakumari

The Hindu  

Condemning the M. K. Stalin-led DMK government’s failure to control inflation, check law and order breakdown in the State and demanding the sacking of Minister V. Senthilbalaji from the Cabinet, the AIADMK functionaries staged a demonstration at Vannnarpet here on Wednesday. Ambasamudram MLA Esakki Subaya, organizing secretaries of the party V. Karuppasamy Pandian and Sudha K. Paramasivan, former MP Soundararajan, …

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Thoothukudi corporation built four parks over freshwater conduit at Rs 7.95 crore, reveals RTI
1 year, 7 months ago

Thoothukudi corporation built four parks over freshwater conduit at Rs 7.95 crore, reveals RTI

New Indian Express  

THOOTHUKUDI: The Thoothukudi corporation constructed four parks abutting each other and encroaching upon freshwater conduit in front of the VOC College on Palayamkottai Road under the smart cities mission scheme, revealed an RTI reply from the civic body. The four parks were constructed at a total cost of Rs 7.95 crore -- a traffic park costing Rs 4.47 crore, planetarium …

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Give us 30 per cent of dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi power station : Brick manufacturers
2 years, 2 months ago

Give us 30 per cent of dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi power station : Brick manufacturers

New Indian Express  

THOOTHUKUDI: Tamil Nadu Fly Ash Bricks and Blocks Manufacturers Association has urged the State government to allot 30% of the dry fly ash generated from Thoothukudi Thermal Power Station to manufacturers free of cost as against the former allotment of 20%. Founder-president of the association DS Saravanan said the TTPS had not renewed allotment orders for as many as 120 …

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Thoothukudi police firing | Charges framed against 3 revenue officials
2 years, 2 months ago

Thoothukudi police firing | Charges framed against 3 revenue officials

The Hindu  

Charges have been framed against three revenue officials following the recommendation of the report of Justice Aruna Jagadeesan Commission of Inquiry in connection with the police firing at anti-Sterlite protestors in Thoothukudi in May 2018. The Commission, which probed the firing incident, asked the government to initiate action against a few police and revenue officials. Charges have been framed under …

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Shoreline plan to set right Tamil Nadu's coastline?
2 years, 8 months ago

Shoreline plan to set right Tamil Nadu's coastline?

New Indian Express  

THOOTHUKUDI: Activists and experts now bank on the Shoreline Management Plans recommended recently by the National Green Tribunal order to restore the disfigured coastline of Tamil Nadu. According to the National Assessment of Shoreline Changes, a status report from 1990 to 2016 released by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and National Centre for Coastal Research, about 40% of the Tamil …

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Cargo vessel owners in Thoothukudi seek separate berth at Maldives
2 years, 9 months ago

Cargo vessel owners in Thoothukudi seek separate berth at Maldives

New Indian Express  

THOOTHUKUDI: In order to improve the business, turnover time and safety, Thoothukudi Cargo Vessel Owners has urged the Maldivian authorities to establish a separate berth for cargo vessels from the district. They said as the Indian government has a fair bilateral relationship with the Maldivian government and has granted Line of Credit for constructing a seaport at Gulhifalhu, the Maldivian …

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'Every Citizen Has The Right To Comment On Govt. Policies': Madras HC Directs TN Bar Council To Enroll Law Graduate Who Participated In Anti-Sterlite Agitation
3 years, 3 months ago

'Every Citizen Has The Right To Comment On Govt. Policies': Madras HC Directs TN Bar Council To Enroll Law Graduate Who Participated In Anti-Sterlite Agitation

Live Law  

Coming to the aid of a law graduate who had participated in the protests for the closure of Vedanta's Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi because of which he had been denied enrolment as an advocate, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has recently directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to enroll him as an advocate …

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Auto driver hacked to death in TN's Thoothukudi, 2 brothers held
3 years, 3 months ago

Auto driver hacked to death in TN's Thoothukudi, 2 brothers held

India Today  

An auto driver was hacked to death in broad daylight by two brothers in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district on Saturday. After a few drinks, the trio got into a dispute, during which Arumugam pulled out a knife hidden in his waistband and attacked Sivaperumal. In order to prevent Sivaperumal from fleeing, Sornaraj held on to the victim as Arumugam continued …

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NHRC report on Thoothukudi firing: Truth under wraps
3 years, 5 months ago

NHRC report on Thoothukudi firing: Truth under wraps

The Hindu  

On June 25, 2021, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court issued a notice to the National Human Rights Commission directing it to forward to the Court its spot investigation report on the 2018 police firing on anti-Sterlite Industries protesters in Thoothukudi, after the NHRC had closed its inquiry into the case. Such report referred to a judicial commission, …

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Sterlite Protests: Madras High Court Calls For Probe Reports Of NHRC- Calls The Inaction "Alarming"
3 years, 6 months ago

Sterlite Protests: Madras High Court Calls For Probe Reports Of NHRC- Calls The Inaction "Alarming"

Live Law  

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court issued notice to the State Government and the National Human Rights Commission today in a plea for disclosure of NHRC's "undisclosed" 2018 investigation report into police firing following the Sterlite Protests in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. Mr. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director of People's Watch, appearing party-in-person, has challenged the closure order of NHRC dated …

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Tamil Nadu allows Vedanta to temporarily reopen, company opposes operation of oxygen plant by govt
3 years, 8 months ago

Tamil Nadu allows Vedanta to temporarily reopen, company opposes operation of oxygen plant by govt

Hindustan Times  

Tamil Nadu on Monday granted temporary permission to a shuttered copper plant in Thoothukudi to reopen for medical oxygen production for four months, almost three years after the facility was closed over pollution concerns after the deaths of 13 protesters in police firing. Hours later, Vedanta Industries, the plant’s owner, opposed the Supreme Court’s suggestion to let the Tamil Nadu …

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Supreme Court rejects Vedanta’s interim plea to inspect, operate closed Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin
4 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court rejects Vedanta’s interim plea to inspect, operate closed Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a proposal made by Vedanta to operate its closed Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi for 30 days under the supervision of an expert committee appointed by the court. Viswanathan and Additional Advocate General Balaji Srinivasan, said the proposal was only a “ruse to open” a plant which had been a polluting one for over …

Supreme Court Court Plant 30 Days Thoothukudi Singhvi Vedanta
Tamil Nadu govt opposes reopening of Thoothukudi Sterlite plant, SC seeks Vedanta's reply
4 years, 1 month ago

Tamil Nadu govt opposes reopening of Thoothukudi Sterlite plant, SC seeks Vedanta's reply

India Today  

The Tamil Nadu government today opposed reopening of the Sterlite copper smelting plant at Thoothukudi. During brief arguments today in the Supreme Court, senior advocate CS Vaidyanathan, appearing for the Tamil Nadu government, said the order passed by the state government was for "permanent closure" of the plant. "Various conditions for the operation of the Sterlite plant have been duly …

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SC Issues Notice On Vedanta Plea To Reopen Sterlite Plant In Tamil Nadu; Refuses Stay On HC Order
4 years, 4 months ago

SC Issues Notice On Vedanta Plea To Reopen Sterlite Plant In Tamil Nadu; Refuses Stay On HC Order

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea filed by Vedanta Sterlite Copper seeking reopening of the copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. A Bench comprising of Justices RF Nariman, Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee sought a response from the Tamil Nadu government in the appeal filed by Vedanta Ltd against the High Court Order refusing to …

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Madras HC refuses to allow reopening of Vedanta's Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper Plant
4 years, 4 months ago

Madras HC refuses to allow reopening of Vedanta's Thoothukudi Sterlite Copper Plant

India TV News  

In a setback to Vedanta, Madras High Court on Tuesday refused to allow the reopening of Sterlite copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi. The court upheld the Tamil Nadu government's order of May 2018, directing closure of Vedanta’s Tuticorin Facility. Vedanta Limited had moved the court challenging the state government's closure order against its Sterlite Copper Plant on May …

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