An inquiry has been ordered into reports that an allegedly radioactive contaminated ship from the US has anchored off the Alang coast in Gujarat, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board giving it a clean chit, but the Union environment ministry rejecting it has decided to send its own team to the state for investigation.

NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered an inquiry into the anchoring of a United States ship, reportedly laden with radioactive substances, off the Alang coast in Gujarat.

Manas Dasgupta

GANDHINAGAR: The ship-breaking yard at Alang, off the Bhavnagar coast in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has found

Nitin Sethi | TNN

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) giving it a clean chit, but Union environment ministry rejecting it to send its own team to the state for investigation.

After Outcry, Env Ministry Orders Probe
Nitin Sethi | TNN

New Delhi: The shipbreaking yards of Alang have once again been hit by controversy with the anchoring of an allegedly contaminated ship from the US.

Prashant Rupera | TNN

Vikram S Mehta

India's first Solar Park to generate 3,000 MW electricity is coming up in Gujarat
with the help of the Clinton Foundation
The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) of the Clinton Foundation has entered into an agreement with the Gujarat government on September 7, one of the outstanding initiatives taken by the state government in the field of solar energy.