The Indian Navy warship INS Vindhyagiri, which collided with MV Nordlake on Sunday, sank inside the naval dockyard here early Monday morning. This is the only the second time that a naval ship has sunk inside the docks due to navigational errors.
Sources said that after the Vindhyagiri was berthed at the dockyard, a major fire broke out inside it at midnight. A source said after the ship listed and sank, a certain amount of oil spilled into the water inside the docks, but the quantity of the spill was low.
“The chambers containing oil have been sealed, and an oil spill cannot happen. The ship hasn’t sunk completely, but has listed and touched the relatively higher seabed,” said Capt. Manohar Nambiar, defence CPRO in Mumbai. The only visible portion of the ship is the radar and some other metal parts.
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Posco gets green nod, but with 60 conditions
Rashme Sehgal
New Delhi
Jan. 31: Minister of state for environment Jairam Ramesh’s relentless “green” crusade was tempered Monday with his granting conditional approval to South Korean steel giant Posco to set up a $12 billion steel mill and captive port in Orissa.
Billed as India’s largest FDI project, the clearance comes with 28 conditions for the steel-cum-captive power plant and another 32 for the captive port which Posco must implement.
But the order has other riders which the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa might make easy to comply with. The MoEF sought the state government’s assurance that the project won’t trample on the rights of tribals under the Forest Rights Act 2006, after which final approval for the diversion of 1,253 hectares forest land for Posco would be granted.