Sterlite Copper Plant

The urgency stemmed from more than 15,000 families losing their livelihood since the plant's closure. These also include the port workers, lorry drivers, contract labour workers and breadwinning women

"The world does not want India to produce. Today, 70% of our money is going into imports"

Diversified natural resources company Vedanta on Thursday said it has received "quite a number of bids" for its Sterlite Copper unit in Tamil Nadu, and is in the process of evaluating them

'Vedanta may sell its machinery and equipment, but the land should revert to the government. The land must be allotted only to agro-based units by the government'

The prolonged closure of its controversial Thoothukudi plant has had an unintended impact on the country's exports of the industrial metal

Oxygen production at Vedanta Ltd's copper smelter plant or Sterlite Copper located in Thoothukudi was restarted on Wednesday, said a company official

Vedanta Ltd owned Sterlite Copper plant has roped in experts from ISRO to help rectify the technical glitch developed in the cold box of its oxygen plant, leading to a suspension in production of th

Vedanta Ltd owned Sterlite Copper Plant which recently, commenced production of medical oxygen at its facility in Tamil Nadu has faced a 'technical snag' in a cold box

Company's plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi was shut in 2018 after police firing on protesters killed 13 people.

Sterlite's argument is that there is a case for heightened pollution in the Thoothukudi area, but it has not been conclusively proven anywhere that Sterlite specifically was the cause of it

The Madras HC refused to stay the Tamil Nadu government order shutting down the Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi

LME copper prices started declining and have remained suppressed ever since the US-China trade war began

It said the order was only a knee-jerk reaction of the state to "appease" a section of public with vested interest

The NGT had on December 15 set aside the state government's order to shut the smelter after police firing on May 22 and killed 13 people who were in a crowd protesting against the unit's expansion.

The Madras High Court Friday ordered status quo as existed before the National Green Tribunal set aside a Tamil Nadu government order for closure of Sterlite's copper plant in Tuticorin. Justices K K Sasindhran and P D Audikesavalu of the Madurai Bench also restrained the Vedanta group from taking any steps to reopen the unit. Hearing a petition against reopening of the Sterlite unit following the December 15 NGT order, the court directed that status quo will continue till January 21 and ordered the state government to inform by then whether it intended to file an appeal against the tribunal verdict. The bench issued notice to the state chief secretary and the Chief Executive Officer of Sterlite to file their counter. On an appeal by the Sterlite, the NGT had quashed the May 28 order of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for permanent closure of the plant in the wake of protests by locals, holding that that it was "non-sustainable" and "unjustified". Sterlite had

The state government had challenged the NGT's order in the apex court

Ramnath said a myth was spread that Tuticorin is the cancer capital of Tamil Nadu and every death that happens in the district is linked to Sterlite Copper