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Several hundreds of people are admitted in hospitals with injury; tensions continue in Thoothukudi, affecting normal life in the city and nearby villages   Current Affairs News : The death toll in Thoothukudi, where public protest against a   Sterlite Copper   facility has led to police action in the past two days increased to 13 on Thursday, with one more people being declared dead. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board   (TNPCB) has directed to closure disconnected the power supply to the   Sterlite copper   refining plant. According to reports from Thoothukudi, Selvasekar, who was injured during a clash with the police succumbed on Thursday morning in the district government hospital. The police-public clash resulted in 11 deaths on Tuesday and another firing incident on Wednesday resulted in one death. Several hundreds of people are admitted in hospitals with injury. The tension in the city continues on Thursday, affecting the n...

The protests had been going on for 100 days since Sterlite Copper announced its plans to invest Rs 25 billion in doubling the capacity of its existing facility to 800,000 tonnes per year Current Affairs News : As many as 9 people were killed on Tuesday and 20 others injured in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin, as a protest against Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit, going on for 100 days since the company announced its plans to invest Rs 25 billion in doubling the capacity of its existing facility to 800,000 tonnes per annum, turned violent. The protesters claim that the plant is causing harm to its employees and increasing the capacity of the plant would aggravate the problems. Following a gas leak in March 2013, the then chief minister late J Jayalalithaa had ordered its closure, following which the company moved the   National Green Tribunal. With the tribunal overturning the government order, the state moved the Supreme Court against it, and the petition has been pending s...