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Oil tanker runs aground off Chennai; rescue operations on

An oil tanker with 37-member crew on board on Wednesday ran aground off the city coast under the impact of high velocity winds before the landfall of cyclone 'Nilam'. Coast Guard and other agencies......

USS Nimitz docks near Chennai

Nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz docked near Chennai on Monday morning, a top port official said. "It docked at about 6 am but official declaration about the anchoring has not......

How Vizhinjam Port Can Change India's Shipping Fortunes

'It will be important strategically and geographically because there is no port in India which is as close to the international shipping route as Vizhinjam.' IMAGE: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi......

PIX: US-Indian Navy joint exercise 'MALABAR 2013' begins

The four-day joint Naval exercise 'MALABAR 2013' in the Bay of Bengal between the United States and India, providing an opportunity to advance multinational maritime relationship and mutual......

How India Won Back Maldives's Trust

The avoidable stresses and strains in ties helped in one way.It showed for the entire region how a matured India handled diplomatic relations, especially with a smaller and suspicious neighbour,......

Digital Connexion lines up $11 bn for data centres

Digital Connexion, a joint venture between Brookfield, Reliance Industries and Digital Realty, on Wednesday announced an investment of $11 billion till 2030 for building 1 gigawatt (Gw)......

Why Port Blair may soon lose 'major port' tag

On June 1, 2010, under Indian Ports Act, 1908, govt declared Port Blair as 13th major port in India Port Blair may soon "officially" lose the tag of a major port, granted to it seven years ago, as......

Shipping Ministry to award 30 port projects this fiscal

The Shipping Ministry will award 30 port projects during the current financial year, which are likely to come up at an investment of about Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion). "We have already......

India to get 13th major port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra

With development of the Vadhavan port, India will break into the countries with top 10 container ports in the world. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of the country’s......

India throws open its ports to cruise tourism

A task force, under the chairmanship of the secretary (tourism), with the secretary (shipping) as co-chairperson, has been constituted to promote cruise tourism in the country, reports Megha......

How a determined father put Sankar on World C'ships podium

IMAGE: Chennai lad Sankar Muthusamy in the past week, has been a national champion at U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-19 levels and gave an ample display of his prowess as he dismantled some of the......

Djokovic turns back the clock with slam double in 2018

Prajnesh Gunneswaran rose up the rankings chart to become India's No 1 player IMAGE: Novak Djokovic with the World Number one trophy. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Young German......