A week after the ship collision, the Union minister for environment and forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Saturday visited the site of the oil spill off Mumbai coast to take stock of the ongoing salvage o

There were no reports of fresh oil spill from a cargo ship which collided with another vessel off the Mumbai coast even as anti-pollution operations are still on to neutralise the oil effect, Coast Gu

Government on Monday said legal action has been initiated against owners of the two cargo ships, which collided off Mumbai coast resulting in oil spill endangering the marine life and environment.

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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.

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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.

Mumbai, Aug. 7: A navigational error resulted in the collision of two merchant vessels due to which an oil spill has been reported near Mumbai’s coast on Saturday morning. No loss of life was reported

Two merchant vessels collided on Saturday morning off the Mumbai coast resulting in an oil spill from one of the ships, Coast Guard officials said.

33 crew members were rescued following the inciden

July 29: A new oil spill is sullying US waters in the northern state of Michigan after a pipeline leak sent more than a million gallons of crude into a river tributary, officials said on Wednesday. Th

Washington, Jul 21: British Premier David Cameron today asserted that the BP needs to take responsibility and clear the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, but noted that both US and Britain need to make sure