NEW DELHI | Tue Apr 2, 2013 2:59pm IST (Reuters) – The Supreme Court has fined Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd 1 billion rupees for breaking environmental laws at its copper smelter in Tamil Nadu. The case is unrelated to a separate order… Continue Reading →
Anand Grover | Apr 2, 2013, After 2005 India started granting product patents on medicines. However, Section S ection 3(d), one of the safeguards introduced by Parliament, seeks to prevent patenting of new forms of known substances unless they exhibit enhanced efficacy…. Continue Reading →
31 March 2013 shivani chaturvedi, Statesman CHENNAI, 31 MARCH: The closure of the Thoothukudi unit of Sterlite Industries yesterday has brought great relief to environmental activists of Tamil Nadu and residents of Thoothukudi (formerly known as Tuticorin). The copper smelter… Continue Reading →
By Express News Service – CHENNAI 30 March 2013 A woman news reader, who recently filed a sexual harassment complaint with police against the news editor of a private television channel, has been suspended from service along with her fiance…. Continue Reading →
TNN | Mar 30, 2013, 12.49 AM IST E Puzhal Prison|Jayalalithaa|Dinathanthi CHENNAI: Doctors’ associations in Tamil Naduare up in arms after a 70-year-old physician in Chennai had to spend a night in prison for stopping a police sub-inspector accompanying chief minister J Jayalalithaa from entering the… Continue Reading →
Sterlite Copper Closed 30 March, 2013 — The Tamil Nadu Government has relented to public pressure and shut down Sterlite Industries‘ copper complex today. According to a worker, officials from 10 government departments arrived by the vanload in the plant… Continue Reading →
Nityanand Jayaraman MARCH 28, 2013 at kafila.org Guest Post by NITYANAND JAYARAMAN A toxic hotspot in the backyard of a house in Therkuveerapandiapuram, a village adjoining the Sterlite factory. Dangerous levels of iron and arsenic were found in the soil here. (Picture… Continue Reading →
V. VASANTHI DEVI, The Hindu , March 28,2013 UGLY TRUTH: A custodial death is perhaps one of the worst crimes in a civilised society governed by the rules of law. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy The circumstances surrounding the custodial death… Continue Reading →
March 26th, 2013v chandrikar, tnlabour.in Thoothukudy, March 25, 2013: One worker, reportedly a 35-year old man from Bihar, succumbs to effects of gas exposure following a poisonous gas leak from front of the Sterlite Copper Smelter on 23rd March 2013…. Continue Reading →
Four persons belonging to Idinthakarai and Koodankulam villages, who had been booked under Goondas Act since September 2012, have been exonerated by the Madras High Court (Madurai bench). In all, six men ranging in age from 23 to 68, were… Continue Reading →
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