Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Three Chinese companies are part of consortiums that have bagged Rs 1,800-crore worth of five contracts awarded by state-owned Hindustan Copper to raise its production four-fold to 12 million tonnes over the next five years. While Chinese companies are already building steel plants in India, it will be the first …
While permitting Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin to continue operations of its copper plant, the Supreme Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to issue notice to the industry for carrying out remedial measures and removing deficiencies within such time “it thinks reasonable and proper.” A Bench of …
Sterlite Industries expressed confidence that it will overcome the deficiencies listed out in the Supreme Court judgment. Mr P. Ramnath, Chief Executive Officer, Sterlite Copper, said the company has proactively started implementing some of the recommendations in the Supreme Court ruling. “The company has allocated additional funds to further fulfil …
New Delhi In a major relief to Sterlite Industries, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stuck to its earlier stay order against the immediate closure of the company’s copper smelting plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu. The closure was directed by the Madras High Court. The HC had in September last …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended its stay on the Madras High Court judgment ordering closure of the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. Last October, the apex court had stayed the High Court order. The apex court will now hear the matter in …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved verdict on Sterlite Industries' interim application seeking a stay on the operation of the Madras High Court judgment ordering closure of its copper plant at Tuticorin and discharge of its workers on payment of compensation. A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik …
AROUND 300 tonnes of toxic waste still lies unattended at the former factories of Union Carbide in Bhopal. Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, will spend £7 million on the 2012 London Olympics. The same company has refused to clean …
Unlike the cannot-be-allowed stand of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the copper smelting unit of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin, the Central Pollution Control Board seems to take a different view. During a hearing on the issue in the Supreme Court today, the report of the CPCB on the …
A scientific study of soil and water samples taken from the region surrounding the controversial Sterlite Industries’ copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi has revealed a startling picture of environmental poisoning. The results of analyses of the samples by a US-based Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) scientist Dr Mark Chernaik attributes …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has extended the stay on the order of the Madras High Court with regard to Sterlite Industries till the second week of December. A Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale directed the respondents to file their replies in four weeks and …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the London-listed Vedanta group company to give details about the steps being taken by it to comply with the environmental norms at Sterlite
Company has plans to double smelting capacity at Tuticorin plant. The shutdown of Sterlite Industries' Tuticorin plant may impact supply particularly in the domestic markets where the demand has peaked on the back of largescale power projects. Globally, copper prices are on the upswing due to lower inventory on the …
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Smelting Unit Of Vedanta Flagship Has Violated Environment Norms: Court Chennai: Just a month after the Union ministry of environment and forests rejected the proposal to mine Niyamgiri hills for its aluminum refinery in Orissa, Vedanta Resources Plc. has suffered another major setback with the Madras High Court (HC) ordering …
More troubles seem to be brewing for the Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanata Group of companies with a division bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday ordering the immediate closure of group subsidiary Sterlite Industries
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the shut down of Sterlite Industries' copper smelting plant in Tuticorin over pollution concerns. Allowing the petitions filed by National Trust for Clean Environment and MDMK general secretary, Mr Vaiko, in 1996, a division bench comprising Justice Elipe Dharma Rao and Justice N. …
On january 5, the Madras High Court stayed the expansion plans of Sterlite Industries for its copper smelter plant in Thoothukudi. The court stayed the project on a petition challenging the environmental clearance to the plant by the Union environment ministry, saying public hearings were not held. “Public hearings are …
