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Sunken Navy vessel won’t be discarded
The Indian Navy on Saturday decided that INS Vindhyagiri will not be decommissioned immediately after it is salvaged from the seawater inside the Naval Dockyard.
Warship sinks in dock after Mumbai collision
The Indian Navy warship INS Vindhyagiri, which collided with MV Nordlake on Sunday, sank inside the naval dockyard here early Monday morning.
Water used to douse fire fills warship
After the Indian Navy warship INS Vindhyagiri sank inside the naval dockyard here early Monday morning, the dockyard fire tenders tried to douse the fire initially.
Navy ship, merchant vessel collide
Just six months after a collision between two ships resulted in a large oil spill in the Indian Ocean, a collision took place on Sunday evening between a Indian Navy ship and a foreign flagged merchan
Mangroves worst-hit by Chitra spill
After MV Chitra and MV Khalija III collided, the resultant oil spill has had the most harmful effect on mangroves in Colaba and Vashi. An interim report on the study of the impact of the oil spill on mangroves in Mumbai and along the Raigad coast has revealed this fact. Moreover, there is no hope for the regeneration of mangroves from
Forces cut in J&K not an issue: Antony
Defence minister A.K. Antony on Friday said that the announcement made by Union home secretary G.K. Pillai regarding the withdrawal of forces from Jammu and Kashmir was pertaining to paramilitary forces and not the armed forces. Mr Antony was speaking on the sidelines of the commissioning of Italian-built fleet tanker INS Deepak at the Naval dockyard in Mumbai.
22K barrels of oil lost, says ONGC
Immediately after the leak was detected, the Regional Contingency Plan and the National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan was activated to ensure minimum damage to the environment.
MMRDA revokes certificate
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority on Saturday revoked the occupation certificate of the controversial Adarsh Housing Society.
0.9 bed per 1,000 sick in country
A study on healthcare infrastructure by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and Hosmac, a healthcare consultant, has shockingly revealed that India does not even have a
140 containers still untraced
Out of the 280-odd containers that had fallen off MSC Chitra around 140 containers are yet to be traced. This is what is endangering the movement of marine traffic in Mumbai’s harbour and the surrounding seas.
