Tag: Environmental

India notifies DG Shipping as ships recycling authority

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New Delhi: India today notified its Directorate General of Shipping as the national authority for recycling of ships under a year-old law that governs this key environment polluting activity. The National Authority of Ship Recycling will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The notification was issued in this […]

India coast guard averts major disaster off Sri Lanka, fights fire on Very Large Crude Carrier

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New Delhi: An alert and sharply intuitive operation by India’s coast guard has averted a major shipping and environment disaster off Sri Lanka this month that had threatened ecological degradation along the South Asian giant’s southern coast, the island nation’s eastern coast and the Maldivian atolls. The Indian […]