Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has received Rs 864 crore (Rs 8.64 billion) in final settlement of an insurance claim for the oil facility at Mumbai High that was gutted in a fire in July 2005.
The announcement was made at the concluding ceremony of the Congress' re-enactment of the historic Dandi march on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
In July last year, a vessel collided with the Mumbai High platform, killing 26 people and destroying the platform.
'Gwadar has the potential to facilitate PLAN's operations in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.' 'Reports of China setting up electronic eavesdropping posts at Gwadar to monitor US and Indian naval activity and shipping traffic through the Straits of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea lend credence to this,' says former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
Shivaji memorial to be set up on lines of Statue of Liberty
Pakistan's Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif is in China's militancy hit Muslim-majority Xinjiang province on a rare visit where he met his Chinese counterpart General Fang Fenghui, promising to crackdown on Uighur militants.
It was damaged while participating in an exercise in the Arabian Sea.
However, the territorial administration cancelled the journey of two other vessels following warning of high tidal waves in the Arabian Sea due to tremors that hit South East and South Asia.
This is the eighth in a series of such exercises.
The one-month-long exercises will involve the army, air force and the navy.
The navies of India, the US, Japan and Australia on Tuesday held a series of complex manoeuvres in the Bay of Bengal, kick-starting the four-day-long first phase of the Malabar naval exercise, seen as a prelude to future military cooperation among the member nations of the Quad or Quadrilateral Coalition.
The Indian fishermen will be presented before a judicial magistrate on Thursday and then sent to jail. The latest arrests come at a time when tensions between the two countries are escalating over various issues.
The second phase of the mega exercise is scheduled to be held from November 17 to 20 in the Arabian sea.
The very severe cyclonic storm Nilofar has weakened into a severe cyclonic storm ahead of making landfall at the northern Gujarat coast and adjoining Pakistani coast around Naliya by Thursday night.
India will be the fourth country after the United States, Russia and China to send humans to space.
Three terrorists attempted a forced entry into the hotel. A guard at the entrance challenged them after which the terrorists opened fire and killed him, the army's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said.
The three-member committee will look into the safety and security of the ONGC's offshore operations.
Looking resplendent in her colourful buntings, the 143 metre long Frigate slipped into the warm waters of the Arabian Sea amidst the strains of `Saare Jahan Se Acha....'
India's decision to heed to Australia's request to be part of the mega naval drill comes in the midst of growing strain in ties with China over the border row in eastern Ladakh.
During this period, India will get a feel of the Krivak class missile frigate, which it will acquire in June.
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Isolated heavy rainfall is also very likely over north Konkan region during the same period, it said.
Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel and Jaipur's Oberoi Raj Vilas have made it to the world's best hotels' list compiled by Conde Naste Traveller.
Two US warships and a nuclear submarine will join the 'Malabar' series of exercises along with Indian Navy frigates and a German-made 'Shishumar' class HDW submarine.
22 bodies, 13 from Kottayam district and 9 from Idukki were recovered from various rain-hit areas while National Disaster Response Force teams continued their rescue operations.
Administration seeks navy's help to deal with any eventuality as a cyclonic storm forms in the Arabian sea\n\n
"Conditions are favourable for dust storms over Delhi and nearby areas. We are expecting a fall in temperatures," Dr R D Singh of the Indian Meteorology Department said.
"Conditions are favourable for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala and its further advance into some more parts of south Arabian sea, remaining parts of Maldives - Comorin area, some parts of Tamil Nadu and some more parts of Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours," said a statement by the Indian Meteorological Department.
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