Ahead of the International Fleet Review being held in Vizag, Naval chief Admiral RK Dhowan spoke of the changing perception of the navy and the many challenges it faces.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has attached Indian assets of a Sri Lankan man and his son as part of a drugs-linked money laundering investigation against them.
Trump's sweeping tariffs and penalties on China-built ships have turned global shipping into the front line of economic war, observes Shyam G Menon.
They allegedly entered Pakistani territorial waters illegally.
The train collided with a goods train amid dense fog. A high-level probe has been ordered into the incident. Passengers with major injuries have been sent to Cuttack Medical College Hospital. All passengers are stated to be out of danger.
The panel, however, set some conditions for the company, including that Cairn India will have to upload the status of environment compliance, including results of monitored data, on its website and update it periodically.
Passengers in 200 railway stations across India will soon be able to recharge their mobiles, pay electricity bills, fill up Aadhaar and Pan card forms and even file taxes with help from Common Service Centre (CSC) kiosks to be set up by RailTel. The scheme has been operationalised in partnership with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited' (CSC-SPV) and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, RailTel said in a statement. The kiosks will be run by village level entrepreneurs (VLEs).
'We condemn recent illicit missile launches in the region that violate UN Security Council resolutions. We express serious concern over recent dangerous and aggressive actions in the maritime domain. We seek a region where no country dominates and no country is dominated one where all countries are free from coercion, and can exercise their agency to determine their futures,' the declaration said.
Oil regulator PNGRB has approved the tariff that billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned East-West pipeline will charge for transporting gas from fields off the east coast to users.
Reliance Industries Limited has made two natural gas discoveries on the east and west coast adding to the vast hydrocarbon reserves it has found in the past few years.
Widespread rains lashed parts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday, prompting authorities to declare a holiday for schools in Chennai and many other districts.
On May 15, the weather office had announced the onset of monsoon over Kerala by May 31.
The system lay centered at 5.30 am over Southeast Bay of Bengal, about 450 km west-northwest of Car Nicobar (Nicobar Islands), 380 km west of Port Blair (Andaman Islands), 970 km southeast of Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 1030 km south-southeast of Puri (Odisha).
Several trains under the purview of SER and ECoR were cancelled or diverted on Wednesday, including the premium Rajdhani Express and Vande Bharat Express, owing to the blockade by members of the Kurmi community in Jharkhand and Odisha, officials said.
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Petronet LNG, which operates a recently expanded ten-million-tonne gas regassification plant in Dahej on the west coast, is exploring a swap option with the gas from the Krishna-Godavari field (K-G D6) on the east coast owned by Reliance Industries Ltd.
Villpuram district in north Tamil Nadu continued to reel under unprecedented flooding on Monday following extremely heavy rainfall, virtually blocking access to villages and residential colonies as bridges and roads overflowed, inundating huge acreage of standing crops and leaving passengers stranded as rail and road traffic was hit.
Here's a collection of some photographs released by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency of cities and continents taken from the International Space Station in recent times.
The Quad also vowed to work towards a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific, a region that has seen increasing Chinese military muscle-flexing in the last few years.
The US Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam, along with the force's F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace over the waters east of North Korea
A massive snowstorm hits United States, with upto 12 inches of snow expected in New York. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and schools closed following the wintry weather.
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm, named Remal, on Saturday evening and is likely to turn severe before making landfall between the coasts of West Bengal and Bangladesh on Sunday midnight, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
"Cyclone Nisarga is likely to become a severe cyclone in the next 12 hours. It will continue to move for the next six hours in a northerly direction along the coast, after that it will re-curve as a cyclone and cross Raigad and Daman-Raigad," Aanand Sharma, deputy director, IMD told ANI.
Sandy, the most devastating storm to hit the United States in decades, killed nearly 50 people as it struck densely populated US east coast region leaving a trail of destruction and millions of waterlogged homes in darkness.
So how are tropical cyclones formed? How destructive can they be? How are their names chosen? Find out the answers to these and other questions in our cyclone FAQ.
The trigger that led Japan and the Philippines to ink the deal was because of the deteriorating security situation in the South China Sea. China's coast guard increased the frequency and intensity of incursions into Philippine waters, provoking the Philippines to take countermeasures to deter China, explains Dr Rajaram Panda.
It will also be the third cyclone to hit the western state in June since 1965, the meteorological office said.
The government may permit Reliance Industries Limited to export surplus LPG from the west coast and allow it to import on the deficit east coast to make huge savings on freight cost.
The final part of Deepak Kripalani's Odisha travelogue.
Just as the United States east coast is limping back to recovery from the destruction caused by Sandy, another strong coastal storm threatens to hit the region this week and could result in high winds, flooding and power outages, further exacerbating the damage caused by the megastorm.
Superstorm Sandy left a trail of bodies and wreckage on the densely-populated United States East Coast, claiming over 70 lives and sparking burglaries in flooded neighbourhoods as nearly 4 million Americans still struggled without power and communication.
Millions of Americans woke up to scenes of destruction wrought by Sandy after the powerful storm smashed into the United States east coast, destroying buildings, flooding streets, and cutting power across 15 states. Here's a look at the aftermath of the 'Frankenstorm'.
As superstorm Sandy hit the United States East Coast affecting millions of people, an international Sikh forum on Tuesday announced that Gurdwaras in the country have been turned into shelter homes for the affected.
Hurricane Sandy, the monster of a storm threatening to hit America's East coast relegated the US election campaign to the backburner, as President Barack Obama rushed to the White House to personally review preparations and his rival Mitt Romney cancelled his campaign activities.
All current staff of BPCM is expected to transfer to the new owners under equivalent terms and conditions.
Then and now photographs of Hurricane Sandy tell a remarkable story of how New York and New Jersey's effort to rebuild the cities a year after the disaster.
The mishap took place at Khairpali between Sambalpur City and Maneswar railway stations when the vehicle was hit by Rourkela-Bhubaneswar Inter-City Express while it was trying to cross the track at an unmanned level crossing, an East Coast Railway official said.
