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Tourist boat capsizes off Calangute beach in Goa, 1 dead

One person died and 20 others were rescued after a tourist boat capsized in the Arabian Sea off Calangute beach in North Goa on Wednesday, police said. Image used only for representation.......

Boat Tragedy: They Rescued 16 People

'When we reached only a small portion of the boat was above water and people were desperately clinging on to it.' IMAGE: Iqbal Gothekar (extreme right), Irshad Mirkar, Masoom Harchilkar and Irfan......

Mumbai boat tragedy: Missing boy's body found after 3 days

The body of a 7-year-old boy missing after the ferry-Navy craft collision off Mumbai coast was found on Saturday morning, taking the death toll in the December 18 tragedy to 15, officials said.......

Mumbai ferry mishap: Search on for missing 7-year-old boy

The search operation launched by naval boats to locate a seven-year-old boy missing after a Navy craft rammed into a ferry off the Mumbai coast two days ago continued on Friday and will go on for......

Survivor contests Navy claim, says speedboat driver's stunt caused tragedy

A survivor of the fatal speedboat-ferry collision in Mumbai has accused the Navy speedboat driver of "showing off" and "being in a playful mood" before the crash that claimed 14 lives. Gautam......

Visa-on-arrival to be extended to 150 countries: Jaitley

After tasting success in scaling up number of foreign tourists through visa-on-arrival enabled electronic travel authorisation for 43 countries, government is geared up to extend the facility to......

Jaitley's speech peppered with digs at UPA rule

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley peppered his speech with digs at the previous United Progressive Alliance regime and sprinkled it with interesting phrases taken out from Urdu poetry and religious......

Oil spill shuts India's busiest port

Operations were suspended at India's busiest container terminal, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, as authorities attempted to contain damage from the collision of two cargo vessels off the coast of Mumbai on......

Can good economics clean up Mumbai's air?

Can good economics work to clean up the foul air Mumbai breathes? Last summer some of Mumbai's BEST buses began using cleaner diesel instead of regular diesel, which cuts down emissions of dirty......

India's share in world tourism receipts 0.67%

India's share in world tourism receipts is just 0.67 per cent and ranks 51 in the world international arrivals.Minister for tourism and culture Jagmohan in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on......

When India beckoned Matthew Modine

The first time he heard about India was from his grandmother who had come to the country for spiritual solace in the 1940s.Decades later, when Ismail Merchant offered Matthew Modine a chance......

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Tourist boat capsizes off Calangute beach in Goa, 1 dead

Boat Tragedy: They Rescued 16 People

Mumbai boat tragedy: Missing boy's body found after 3 days

Mumbai ferry mishap: Search on for missing 7-year-old boy

Survivor contests Navy claim, says speedboat driver's stunt caused tragedy

Visa-on-arrival to be extended to 150 countries: Jaitley

Jaitley's speech peppered with digs at UPA rule

Oil spill shuts India's busiest port

Can good economics clean up Mumbai's air?

India's share in world tourism receipts 0.67%

When India beckoned Matthew Modine

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