Minister of State for Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan said the vessel had more than 32,000 tonne of oil and has been emptied.
As many as 80 Indian students, most of them from Mumbai, were left high and dry when ceased functioning when IHMES went kaput in April
State government announced ex gratia for kin of those who lost lives.
'Mary just stopped talking to me. Maybe she did not like the fact that she was the gold medallist, but it was me (Sarita), not her, who was getting all the attention.'
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How did we get to this point, where the US President -- the ostensible leader of the free world -- is disrespected in a most serious manner and the incident is considered funny and deserving? What happened?
alldaybuffet, a group of creative professionals focused on social innovation, created the New Orleans 100.
Why does this Kerala district see so many political murders and revenge killings?
Indian immigrants like Sai Gundavelli often arrive in the U.S. armed with scientific skills, a need to fund people at home -- and ambition.
Kal Penn is moving to a more financially viable career, albeit only nine months after he took up a public office in President Barack Obama's White House.
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Govt says coastal road is meant to decongest Mumbai, experts believe it would be counter-productive.
This is the joint statement issued by the ministry of external affairs on the visit of US President Barack Obama to India.
In his penultimate State of the Union address, Barack Obama said that the economy is improving.
This cult of speed reaches its crowning glory during that peculiar Indian spectacle called medical camps. Medical camps are an activity in which doctors from cities travel to underserved areas, often on weekends, where the poor are then herded in hundreds for deliverance, photo-ops and freebies. In their more evolved form, there are surgical camps where bewildered and overawed patients are put onto operating tables and, much like an assembly line, a series of operations are performed in rapid succession. The surgical instruments are often magically sterilised in minutes between procedures, says Dr Sanjay Nagral.
If Admiral Mehta's warning that India is long way off from catching up to China can generate the requisite debate in the Indian political establishment about the rise of China and its implications for Indian strategy, he would have done his bit for the nation.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris' close friendship with the president, gives her a prime time slot on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina; in her remarks she bemoans the foreclosure contagion and recalls how proud her mom was when she bought her home. Aziz Haniffa reports
The community constitutes about 16.5 percent of the total electorate. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, aware of the figure, has been vocal in his opposition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi campaigning in the state... For all its backward mien, Bihar has a very high political consciousness and a reason for the paradox is politics is the sole arbiter of fate in this state. And Muslims are no exception.
The combined Opposition's call for a Bharat Bandh on Monday has brought most of the country to a near standstill. Rediff.com correspondents report from across the country
A growing number of India's seniors are starting to take their future into their own hands, says Sandip Roy.
IIM Ahemedabad student Gourav Bhattacharya shares some useful tips.
If the protests die down and the bureaucracy speeds up, India might just get a new world-class university. Mining magnate Anil Agarwal is putting $1 billion into this dream.
Is there a well-concealed additional vision of an 'arc of democracy'? That is the nagging question in the Chinese mind. It will nag even more after they have read Dr Singh's positive reaction to the idea of closer co-operation among major democracies
Why Facebook's 22-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spurned Yahoo and Viacom to go it alone.
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