Reliance Industries has made a 'significant' gas find in a Cauvery basin block-off the east coast, company officials said.
The ministries of defence, civil aviation and shipping and the three services of the armed forces will coordinate the operations with Chennai being the main hub.
The waters between India and Sri Lanka are guarded by the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard. The shores are patrolled by the Tamil Nadu police. Tuticorin has a 120 km-shoreline.
Announcing the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decision, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said a Special Purpose Vehicle would be set up for the project.
The satellite picture of Cyclone Baaz, which is expected to strike the Andhra-Tamil Nadu coast.
The authorities have called the families of the crew for carrying out DNA tests for identification of the deceased and collecting the remains and personal effects.
The trough over the Bay of Bengal, which has caused the torrential downpour in the state, will weaken in next 48 hours.
While acknowledging Shivaji's naval contributions, questions are being raised about the inadequate acknowledgement of Chola sea-power in southern Tamil Nadu, which dates back by a few centuries, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
Surplus rain water gushed out of reservoirs while several roads here resembled swollen rivers and four persons were killed in rain related incidents in Tamil Nadu and over 60 houses suffered damage, authorities here said on Monday.
Heavy falls at isolated places are very likely over Kerala on April 29 and 30. The system will not make landfall in Tamil Nadu, but may bring light rain in some northern parts, it said.
Reliance Industries Ltd, along with its partner British Petroleum, plans to invest about Rs 800 crore (Rs 8 billion) to carry out exploratory drilling in an offshore block in the Bay of Bengal, off the Tamil Nadu coast.
June 1 is the official onset date of monsoon in India when it hits Kerala.
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal crossed the coast near Nagapattinam on Saturday afternoon.
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Survey ship Sandhayak picks up signals likely from missing Coast Guard aircraft
While flight operations have already resumed, inter-intra state train services also were partially operating since Tuesday night, they said.
The government has asked the general public to call toll free numbers 1070 and 1077 during emergency situations .
Fifteen ships belonging to both the Coast Guard and the Indian Navy are a part of the search mission, in addition to the advanced Boeing Poseidon P81 surveillance aircraft.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan said there might by a postponement if the weather was not conducive.
The fate of three crew members onboard Coast Guard's Dornier aircraft that went missing on Monday remained unknown on Wednesday even as Navy deployed a submarine as part of massive search operations off Tamil Nadu coast.
Tamil Nadu continued to experience monsoon fury, with heavy rains pounding various parts of the state under the influence of a well marked low pressure area over Bay of Bengal, as the death toll from rain-related incidents climbed to 59.
According to officials, ten men and three women died and 28 head of cattle perished in cyclone related incidents despite authorities evacuating as many as 81,948 people to 471 relief centres in Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Ramanathapuram, Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Tiruvarur districts.
The American ship, detained by Coast Guard for carrying arms and ammunition off Tamil Nadu coast, may escape action if it is established that the vessel was cruising beyond Indian territorial waters, a top official said.
A Coast Guard Dornier surveillance aircraft with three crew members on board went missing on Monday night off the coast of Chennai.
State pegs total loss due to rains at Rs 8,481 crore.
Heavy rains on Tuesday pounded several parts of Tamil Nadu with most areas of Chennai witnessing water logging severely disrupting train and bus services.
While the government had in June approved a new formula for pricing of all domestically produced natural gas, the Cabinet yesterday allowed the same principles to also be applied to Reliance Industries' currently producing fields in KG-D6 block subject to certain conditions.
Educational institutions remained closed even as the weather office forecast heavy downpour in the next three days in the state, Puducherry and coastal Andhra Pradesh.
After a brief lull, intermittent rains lashed Chennai and its suburbs on Sunday, while the weatherman predicted more showers in Tamil Nadu over the next 48 hours.
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