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TN: Locals pay tribute to persons killed in Anti-Sterlite Copper Plant pro
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
While marking the 7th anniversary of the Anti-Sterlite Protest, at an event organised by the members of the Anti-Sterlite Thoothukudi District People's Federation on Thursday, residents from across the city of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu gathered to pay tribute to the fifteen individuals kill
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Thoothukudi: Locals pay tribute to persons killed in Anti-Sterlite Copper
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
At an event organized by the members of the Anti-Sterlite Thoothukudi District People's Federation on Wednesday, residents from across the city of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, gathered to pay tribute to the fifteen individuals killed during the 2018 Anti-Sterlite Copper Plant protests.
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Sterlite protest was "foreign-funded": Tamil Nadu Governor
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Thursday alleged that the protest which led to the closure of Vedanta's Sterlite copper plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi was "foreign-funded" and those behind it were getting funds under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act or were non-government organisation
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Firing at Anti-Sterlite protest: Justice Aruna Jagadheesan commission reco
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 19 (ANI): The Justice Aruna Jagadheesan Commission, which was constituted to enquire into the causes and circumstances leading to opening fire resulting in death and injuries to persons at Tuticorin during anti-Sterlite protest, has now recommended actio
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Rajinikanth asked to file written reply to commission probing Thoothukudi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Feb 25 (ANI): Actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth's legal aide, advocate Ilamparudhi, on Tuesday appeared before a one-member commission headed by retired Madras High Court judge Aruna Jagadeesan probing police firing during an anti-Sterlite protest at Thoothuki
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Anti-Sterlite protests: CBI registers case against TN Police, revenue offi
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday registered a case against Tamil Nadu Police and Revenue Department officials after 13 protestors were killed in police firing during Anti-Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi, on May 22.
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Anti-Sterlite violence: Protester succumbs to injuries; death toll rises t
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Oct 16 (ANI): A person, who got injured during the anti-Sterlite protests in Thoothukudi district in May, died last night taking the death toll in the incident to 14. Justine was in the coma for past five months.
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Anti-Sterlite protests: Madras HC orders CBI probe into police firing
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 14 (ANI): The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into police firing during the anti-Sterlite protests held on May 22. 13 people lost their lives during the firing.
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Anti-Sterlite protests: TN CM to visit injured, kin of deceased
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 07 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami is slated to visit Thoothukudi on June 9 to meet the families of those killed by police firing during the anti-Sterlite protests.
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Anti-Sterlite protest: Actor Vijay visits kin of deceased
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 6 (ANI): Kollywood actor Vijay, in the wee hours of Wednesday, visited the families of those who died during the anti-Sterlite protests in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district.
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Thoothukudi violence: Madras HC allows autopsy of remaining bodies
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 5 (ANI): The Madras High Court on Tuesday allowed the autopsy of the remaining six bodies of victims of police firing in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi during the anti-Sterlite protests.
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Thoothukudi violence: Aruna Jagadeesan will meet injured
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 4 (ANI): Retired High Court Judge Aruna Jagadeesan, who has been appointed by the Tamil Nadu government to probe the violence and consequent police firing during the anti-sterlite protest in Thoothukudi, said that she will meet the injured in the hos
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