Sterlite protests

Sterlite shutdown - Myopic decision

The Tamil Nadu Environment & Forests Department’s Government Order for the “permanent” closure of Sterlite Copper, the Vedanta Group’s copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi, is shortsighted and grievous. It doesn’t augur well for industrialization—not only in Tamil Nadu, which is a leading industrial state, but also in the entire country.

May 30, 2018, 10:31 AM IST

Stalin, other DMK MLAs wear black clothes to Tamil Nadu Assembly over Tuticorin killing

The police had allegedly opened fire on those protesting against Vedanta Group’s Sterlite Copper plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin on May 22, killing at least 13 of them.

May 29, 2018, 10:35 AM IST