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Sterlite asks staff to join back to clean up plant site, launches outreach programme to 'clear myths about project'
Fp Staff • 7 years agoTamil Nadu govt in late May ordered closure of Sterlite Copper's plant after 13 people protesting to demand its shutdown on environmental concerns were killed
Tuticorin protests: Tamil Nadu CB-CID officials conduct assessment of areas where agitators 'resorted to violence'
• 7 years agoThe Tamil Nadu government had ordered a CB-CID probe into the violence during the anti-Sterlite protest in Tuticorin and police firing that left 13 dead.
BJP MP's claim of 'Maoist' presence in Tamil Nadu points to disturbing pattern of branding dissenters as Naxals
Tssudhir • 7 years agoA closer look at the kind of people who have been arrested in the last one week would give a fair idea about why the 'urban Naxals' theory has been floated.
Tuticorin violence: Two deputy tahsildars transferred days after 13 people died in police firing during anti-Sterlite protests
• 7 years agoMore than two weeks after 13 people were killed in police firing during anti-Sterlite protests, two deputy tahsildars who allegedly gave the order to the force to open fire, have been transferred.
As protests rage for 102nd day, Tamil Nadu govt suspends mobile internet in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari districts
Fp Staff • 7 years agoWith protests in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin town entering their 102nd day on Thursday, mobile internet services have been suspended in Thoothukodi, Thirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts.