A major fire that broke out on the Colombo-bound merchant vessel M V Amsterdam Bridge off Mumbai coast has been contained and cooling operations are underway, Coast Guard officials said on Monday.

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The Coast Guard has ordered an inquiry into death of a teenager on May 10 when a vessel allegedly hit a boat off Pamban coast, said Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan, director general of the Indian Coast

Tamil Nadu has written to the director general (DG) of Indian Coast Guard seeking to probe the hitting of a country boat allegedly by a Coast Guard ship that killed a fisherman off Pamban coast on May

Taking serious note of the killing of a young fisherman after his boat was allegedly hit by a Coast Guard ship in the sea off Pamban coast, Tamil Nadu government has written to the Coast Guard to cond

Fishermen in the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands were given distress alert transmitters by the coast guard on Saturday.

Bangalore: India is installing along its long coastline a sophisticated surveillance system capable of tracking movements as distant as 20 kms in the sea with a command and control centre in Delhi fro

The 800,000-strong fishing community in Maharashtra on Monday demanded compensation for what they claimed were huge losses to their trade following the oil spill outside Mumbai.

The state government

Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has appointed SMIT Salvage, a Netherlands-based company to control the oil-spill caused due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast, a senior port official

Concerned over the oil spill following collision of two cargo ships off Mumbai coast, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday called for a report from the shipping ministry on the incident.