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Sterlite copper smelter plant to be shut: TN government

Chennai/Thoothukudi: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday issued orders closing the copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi owned by the Vedanta Group, a week after 13 people were killed in police firing during protests against continued functioning of the unit. The Government Order said it has been brought to the notice of the government that Tamil […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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10 dead in police firing during Thoothukudi protest in Tamil Nadu

Thoothukudi: With the death toll in police firing rising to 10, an uneasy calm on Wednesday gripped Tamil Nadu’s port town Thoothukudi where widespread violence erupted a day earlier during protests against the Sterlite Copper Smelting plant. Of the nearly 100 people injured, the condition of two was said to be critical in hospital. Families of […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Tamils are being killed because they refuse to toe RSS line: Rahul Gandhi

  Chennai: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today claimed that Tamils are being killed as they refused to “bow” to the ideology of the RSS. In an apparent reference to the anti-copper plant violence at Tuticorin yesterday in which 10 people were killed in police firing, Gandhi said he was with the Tamil people. Violence continued […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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