Thoothukudi

Thoothukudi, Tuticorin, Sterlite copper, copper smelting, chimney stack, greenbelt, environmental impact assessment, air quality index, sulphur dioxide, SIPCOT industrial estate, SIPCOT, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, National Air Monitoring Program,

Was COVID Oxygen Demand an Excuse for Vedanta To Reopen Sterlite Plant?

M. Kalyanaraman 14/07/2021

Official figures show that since Sterlite started operating its...

Land Acquisition for ISRO’s Second Spaceport Reaches Final Stage

The Wire Staff 13/07/2021

Thoothukudi MP Kanimozhi said the Tamil Nadu government will...

Police stand gurad outside a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources in Thoothukudi

Vedanta Shares Jump as Thoothukudi Smelter To Reopen To Produce Oxygen

Sudarshan Varadhan 27/04/2021

Overcrowded hospitals in Delhi and elsewhere are turning away...

FILE PHOTO: A private security guard stands in front of the main gate of Sterlite Industries Ltd's copper plant, a unit of London-based Vedanta Resources, in Tuticorin, in Tamil Nadu March 24, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

SC Dismisses Vedanta’s Interim Plea to Inspect, Conduct Trial Run at Sterlite Plant

Vedanta had sought handing over of the plant for...

Thoothukudi, Tuticorin, Sterlite copper, copper smelting, chimney stack, greenbelt, environmental impact assessment, air quality index, sulphur dioxide, SIPCOT industrial estate, SIPCOT, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, National Air Monitoring Program,

Why the Vedanta-Sterlite Judgement Matters – an Annotated Deconstruction

Nityanand Jayaraman 24/08/2020

Public participation weirded the pitch for Vedanta, a multinational...

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Let’s Protect the Bats Where They Live – Including in Our Temples

T. Ganesh, A. Saravanan and M. Mathivanan 01/08/2020

Temples, pagodas, churches and large trees are peppered around...

Thoothukudi, Tuticorin, Sterlite copper, copper smelting, chimney stack, greenbelt, environmental impact assessment, air quality index, sulphur dioxide, SIPCOT industrial estate, SIPCOT, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, National Air Monitoring Program,

Tuticorin Air Quality Improves Noticeably After Sterlite Closure: TNPCB Data

Nityanand Jayaraman 11/12/2019

Any air pollution monitor that does not record a...