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Metalbulletin.com
April 21, 2018
Vedanta Resources subsidiary Sterlite Copper must wait a further two weeks to find out if it can restart its 400,000 tonne per year Tuticorin copper cathode smelter in Tamil Nadu, meaning copper concentrate scheduled for the smelter will continue to flow into the spot market. The smelter was closed at theÃâà...
Times of India
April 20, 2018
TUTICORIN: The demand for packaged drinking water has gone up with the soaring mercury levels. At the same time, this has also raised concern over the quality of water sold by the companies. To empower residents to check the quality of water and certifications obtained by their manufacturer, the districtÃâà...
Scroll.in
April 19, 2018
For over two decades now, activists in Thoothukudi have accused Sterlite of contaminating the region's air and water resources. Since February, there have been large-scale protests in Thoothukudi, where the copper smelter Sterlite runs has the capacity to produce 4.38 lakh tonnes of copper anodes perÃâà...
Metalbulletin.com
April 12, 2018
Vedanta Resources subsidiary Sterlite Copper has declared force majeure on contracts to supply its Tuticorin smelter with copper concentrates, three ... The Tuticorin smelter, based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, had an application for a planned restart rejected by state environmental officials onÃâà...
The Hindu
April 4, 2018
THOOTHUKUDI. The district administration has so far acquired 410.85 acres of the 600.93 acres of land to be acquired for Thoothukudi airport runway expansion and planned to take over the remaining 190.08 acres within a month. After handing over 44.61 acres of land to Airports Authority of India (AAI),Ãâà...
Times of India
April 2, 2018
TUTICORIN: Protests demanding closure of the Sterlite Copper Plant at Tuticorin which began at Kumarattiyapuram entered the 50th day on Monday with villagers showing the same vigour since Day-1 on February 12. Pandarampatti villagers also petitioned the district collector on Monday demandingÃâà...
The News Minute
March 31, 2018
Ever since the March 24 uprising against Vedanta Sterlite's copper smelter in Thoothukudi, corporate hitmen and spin-masters have sprung into action to defend Sterlite. In addition to the usual invocations about how the protests are backed by vested interests, foreign powers and the opposition party,Ãâà...
The New Indian Express
March 29, 2018
Amid massive protests against its expansion, Thoothukudi copper smelter plant shuts down for 15 days for maintenance ... The project site is located within a 1,616-acre parcel of land that is only now being proposed to be developed as a standalone Tuticorin Industrial Park by SIPCOT. Approvals for thisÃâà...
Times of India
March 29, 2018
Speaking to reporters at the Kalpakkam atomic power station, Mudali said renovation work on the plant was nearing completion and that a fresh deal with SPIC for supply of ammonia-rich synthesis gas from its urea plant in Tuticorin was being negotiated. This gas is the basic raw material for producingÃâà...
Times of India
March 29, 2018
CHENNAI: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan will lead a protest against Sterlite Industry's copper plant in Tuticorin on April 1. Local people have been protesting ... Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Kamal said, "We cannot allow a Bhopal-like tragedy to happen in Tuticorin.” The Makkal Needhi MaiamÃâà...
The Hindu
March 28, 2018
The Department of Posts launched Aadhaar enrolment-cum-updation services at Thoothukudi Head Post office on Wednesday. Inaugurating the facility, Senior Superintendent of Post Offices V. Ramasamy said the facility was made available at 723 post offices in the State, including in Madurai, Tirunelveli,Ãâà...
The News Minute
March 25, 2018
Artisanal fisherfolk, shank divers, small salt pan manufacturers, the Tuticorin Chamber of Commerce, auto rickshaw unions, mini bus drivers and tea stall vendors quickly joined the call and stayed off work. They called for an immediate halt of the ongoing work to construct a new copper smelter complex inÃâà...
The News Minute
March 24, 2018
Thousands of people- young and old- gathered near the Chidambaram Nagar bus stand in Thoothukudi district on Saturday. Shouting slogans, cheering speakers on the stage the protesters had two demands: the expansion plans of the Sterlite Copper Plant in the district should be stopped and the plantÃâà...
The Hindu
March 14, 2018
Commissioner of Corporation Alby John Varghese said it was in 1955, Thoothukudi experienced such heavy rainfall. Stagnant waters were drained initially along major arterial roads and with the aid of water suction machinery, water from secondary level roads and houses in low-lyings areas such asÃâà...
NewsClick
December 31, 1999
Demanding the closure of Sterlite's copper smelter in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, which is a part of Vedanta Limited group, villagers from Kumarattiyapuram village have been leading an indefinite dharna (protest) since February 14 this year. The protest got intensified on the 40th day when more than 15,000Ãâà...
Business Standard
December 31, 1999
Vedanta announced that as a part of regular maintenance program, the Company's smelting operations at Tuticorin have taken a maintenance shutdown for approximately 15 days. This activity was earlier scheduled in the month of April 2018. The Refining and Copper rod manufacturing operations willÃâà...
Business Line
December 31, 1999
Vedanta's copper smelting unit in Tuticorin will be shut for 15 days as part of a routine maintenance, according to information provided by the company to the BSE. A senior company official told BusinessLine the four-lakh-tonne a year smelting unit is being shut to replace the refractory brick lining in theÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
December 31, 1999
The prolonged shutdown of Vedanta's copper smelter facility at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu would be credit negative for the company and marginally increase leverage, Moody's Investors Service said today. "A prolonged shutdown would be credit negative for Vedanta because of the potential loss of revenueÃâà...
