Gandhinagar, July 24 (IANS) Gujarat has stepped up its flood response in South Gujarat by deploying additional National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams, dispatching senior Ministers and officials to the worst-affected districts, and placing Army and Coast Guard resources on standby as exceptionally heavy rainfall continued to disrupt normal life across Valsad, Surat, Navsari and Tapi districts. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel chaired a high-level revi…
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Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) The achievement of Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Limited of being elevated to Navratna status was celebrated through the release of a Special Cover with Cancellation and My Stamp on Friday. The Special Cover was released by Ashok Kumar, Chief Postmaster General of West Bengal Circle, in the presence of senior officials of GRSE and India Post.GRSE was accorded Navratna status by the Department of Public Enterprises under the Union Ministry of Finance in Ju…
Visakhapatnam, July 16 (IANS) Two fishermen were injured while five others had a narrow escape when a boat in which they had set off for fishing met with an accident near Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, police said.The boat overturned due to rough sea conditions. The fishermen were trapped under the boat. They managed to push the boat aside and reach the nearby boulders and were later rescued by the marine police.Two fishermen Thatha Rao and Akash were injured in the…
Visakhapatnam, July 14 (IANS) Former Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has squarely blamed negligence of Andhra Pradesh’s coalition government led by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for the death of six fishermen and demanded compensation of Rs 1 crore each for the affected families. Speaking to the media here on Tuesday after consoling the families of the deceased and interacting with the lone survivor of the tragedy, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said that t…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) India’s premier defence shipbuilder, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd, was awarded the SKOCH Award for its Project Akansha. Project Akansha is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative aimed at improving the lives of children and adolescents from vulnerable communities in Kolkata. The award was presented at the 108th SKOCH Summit held in New Delhi. Project Akansha, implemented by Child Rights and You (CRY) with support from GRSE, focuses on the …
Visakhapatnam, July 12 (IANS) Former Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will visit Visakhapatnam on July 14 to console the families of the six fishermen who went missing in the recent boat accident off the Visakhapatnam coast. YSRCP Visakhapatnam District President K.K. Raju announced on Sunday that Jagan Mohan Reddy will arrive at Visakhapatnam Airport at 10:30 a.m. and will directly visit the houses of the missing fishermen at Jabbarpet in Visakhapat…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The sole survivor of the fishing boat tragedy off the Visakhapatnam coast, Andhra Pradesh, has recalled the terrifying moments after the vessel capsized in the Bay of Bengal, saying that seven fishermen were on board, and six of them clung to the overturned boat for nearly nine hours before they were forced to swim for survival.Narrating the ordeal, survivor Kari Chinna said, “There were seven of us on board the fishing boat. We had gone about 29 nautical miles off th…
Visakhapatnam, July 8 (IANS) Authorities have called off the search operation for six fishermen who went missing off the coast of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, after their boat capsized on July 4, dashing the hopes of finding them alive.The fishermen remained untraced after a four-day-long search and rescue operation by the Indian Navy and Coast Guard.The authorities now presume the missing fishermen dead on the basis of information given by a fisherman, who was rescued by a cargo ship on Sunda…
Visakhapatnam, July 7 (IANS) The Indian Navy and the Coast Guard continued their search and rescue operation for six fishermen who went missing off the coast of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam for the third day on Tuesday.Two ships and two helicopters of the Coast Guard continued the search on the basis of information given by a fisherman, who was rescued by a cargo ship on Sunday.The Navy and Coast Guard personnel were focusing their search around Gangavaram, where the fishing boat went missing….
Jakarta, July 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday that the Coast Guard of India and Indonesia will work together to ensure maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean. While addressing a joint press meet with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto following their talks in Jakarta on Tuesday, PM Modi said that India and Indonesia agreed to enhance defence exchange, disaster management and industrial cooperation.Hailing ties between India and Indonesia, PM Modi said, “I …