A pusher tug, a small barge that propels a bigger vessel, drowned in the Hooghly near Prinsep Ghat on Friday night, releasing oil into the river.

SMIT Singapore Private Limited (SSPL), the Singapore based salvage company, has commenced its salvage operations for the removal of oil from the sunken vessel M V Asian Forest, after five months and 10 days, on Tuesday.

GUWAHATI, Dec 20: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the one of the major player of the country in energy sector which contributes 77 per cent of India

It is a bird sanctuary and the State

Nigeria has failed to regulate its oil industry adequately, fuelling anger in the Niger Delta by leaving communities exposed to the effects of oil spills, gas flaring and waste dumping, Amnesty International said.

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A syndicate is reportedly active in supplying adulterated fuel oils in different fuel sales points in the Khulna city and also many rural areas of the district.
Members of the syndicate collect adulterated fuel oils from different parts of the country and supply them to their local customers, local sources said.

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Washington: When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable. But almost no one could have predicted the incredible round of legal ping-pong that only this month lands at the Supreme Court. In the time span of the battle

>> Authorities confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Suffolk county, the UK, on November 13. An exclusion zone was imposed at the site and about 6,000 poultry were ordered to be