Environment ministry, Tamil Nadu Pollution Board must own up to Tuticorin killings

Until we reform environmental governance fundamentally, cases like Sterlite will keep happening and environmental conflicts will only grow

Anti-Sterlite stir: Tension continues as kin of those killed don’t get dead bodies

Activists say the government plans to cremate the protestors who died in police firing on its own

Sterlite protest is a call for Swaraj

The people's movement in Tuticorin against Sterlite and for a clean environment reinforces the ideal of Swaraj and democracy as envisioned …

Not banal

Thoothukudi firing: Inquiry report finds police, revenue officials responsible for 13 deaths 

Ex-CM Palaniswami, district collector criticised; strict action recommended against those responsible   

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81 short-finned pilot whales stranded on Tamil Nadu shores

Forty-five found dead, remaining 36 pushed back into the sea with slim chances of survival

Madras HC stays expansion of Sterlite copper smelter; power supply cut

Protests against the expansion of the smelter have been going on for three months

The sleepy saw-scaled viper

Largely nocturnal, this brown snake is seen under rocks and fallen logs

Anti-Sterlite protest in Tamil Nadu turns violent, at least 11 killed in police firing

At least 30 others were injured when police opened fire to quell the protest

After a 23-year-long battle, Tamil Nadu's Sterlite plant finally shuts down, permanently

On Monday evening, the state government passed a government order to shut down Vedanta group's Serlite copper smelting plant permanently

Anti-Sterlite stir: Parts of Tuticorin return to normal, but activists say it’s far from over

Despite a court order, ban on internet has not been lifted and activists claim police are harassing people

Is the Tamil Nadu govt order to shut down Sterlite plant legally standing?

While the state says the order was based on the pollution control board’s findings, the opposition and activists doubt its legal strength

NEERI made way for Sterlite to pollute Tuticorin

The research organization’s efforts to ensure that pollution was not directly attributed to the copper smelting plant led to the SC not …

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

Pollution-hit Tuticorin salt manufacturers worried by food safety act being implemented

Fly ash from thermal power plants in the area settles on the salt; affects quality

Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant

Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …

Sterlite fined Rs 100 crore

Supreme Court fines Sterlite Industries for polluting environment but refuses to shut it

Supreme Court slaps Rs 100 crore fine on Sterlite for polluting environment

NGT reverses closure order for Sterlite’s Tuticorin plant

Tribunal-appointed committee holds meeting in Chennai; Vedanta subsidiary awaits permission to resume operations