Following the assessment report submitted by the expert panels, Maharashtra fisheries department has decided to claim the compensation of Rs8 crore towards the loss suffered by the fishermen due to the oil spill in the Arabian sea in the first week of August.
The compensation will be sought from the companies that own the ships collided.

Experts from Central Institute of Fisheries Education an

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Nov. 29: To counter the effects of increasing oil spills in Indian waters, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOSIS) is in the developmental stage of forecasting oil spill trajectories which will help mitigating the hazards and cautioning locals.

During a user interaction session on Monday, the director of INCOSIS, Dr C.

Now comes the hard part.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday that more oil from the BP spill was chemically dispersed than previously estimated but it made no changes to its estimate of how much oil surged into the Gulf of Mexico and how much was captured.

The revised estimates were the first since August and were based on a system developed by federal authorities called an Oil Bu

Tamluk/Gadiara, Nov. 23: Two container vessels today collided, apparently after one of them went adrift because of a snag, in a narrow stretch of the Hooghly where tide travails compound the space problem.

The 33 sailors of the two ships are safe but both vessels were damaged and started spilling oil after the 11.30am hit at Hooghly Point, around 50km from Calcutta.

A thick film of oil spreads on the waters in the Hooghly after a collision between cargo ships at Nurpur in South 24 Parganas district on Tuesday.

NURPUR (SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT): A cargo vessel on its way to the Kolkata port rammed another such ship bound for Colombo on the Hooghly river here on Tuesday.

Though none of the crew was injured, both vessels suffered extensive damage and a l

ON BOARD ICGS VISHWAST: The Indian Coast Guard