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Growing public stir against Tata titanium-di-oxide project in Tuticorin
Jul 28 2007, AMIT

All of us have already read and heard a lot about Singur, Nandigram, and Asansol burning on the issue of land acquisition by big business houses for proposed factories. Now to add more to the issue is another project by the Tata Group in Tirunelveli..

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An Iraqi Army soldier, left, stands guard as troops visit displaced Shiite families in the Shula neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. Iraqi troops visited the area to register families as part of its effort to resettle people...

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