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In two separate incidents in Tuticorin and Thanjavur on Saturday night, police shot at two murder accused who attacked them while being rounded up from their hideouts. Both have been hospitalized with bullet injuries in the knee and are out of danger, according to police.

In a ghastly fire accident at a private thermal power plant in Tuticorin in south Tamil Nadu, four employees were charred to death while six others sustained severe injuries on Tuesday.

Salt manufacturers in Tuticorin district suffer huge losses as floods wipe out their stocks. Low season and declining industry in the past two years have already impacted production. The recent floods will further reduce salinity and decrease production. Salt pans on Tiruchendur Road are the most affected. Salt pan laborers facing challenges due to decreased salinity and reduced demand. Government urged to provide relief measures for salt pan laborers.

The murdered lawyer has been identified as Muthukumar, 48, who was practising in a district court and was also running a gold loan company in Sorispuram.

PM Modi on Thursday dedicated to the nation NLC’s two 500 MW thermal power plants -- built at a cost of Rs 8,000 crore -- and a 709 MW solar power plant. At Coimbatore’s Codissia Trade Fair Complex, the PM laid the foundation stone for the modernization of the lower Bhavani project and inaugurated infrastructure and housing projects for western and southern regions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Thursday and will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development initiatives.

Protests demanding closure of the Sterlite Copper Plant at Tuticorin which began at Kumarattiyapuram entered the 50th day on Monday with villagers showing the same vigour since Day-1 on February 12.

In a ghastly fire accident at a private thermal power plant in Tuticorin in south Tamil Nadu, four employees were charred to death while four others sustained severe injuries on Tuesday.

Tension prevailed in Tuticorin city and surrounding villages as an unspecified gas allegedly leaked from some factories here, causing mild suffocation, sore throat and irritation to several people on Saturday morning.