Goa's beaches turn black, oil spill suspected
Panaji, Aug 31: Goa's beaches like Calangute, Siquerim, Betalbhatim and Sernabhatim turned black on Monday, Aug 30 evening due to a suspected oil spill off the coast of Panaji."Beaches in north and south Goa were covered with black tar balls," eyewitnesses.....
Mumbai ship collision: 100 containers missing
Mumbai, Aug 17: Nearly 100 containers that fell into the water following the collision between two merchant vessels off the Mumbai coast are still missing said a senior Mumbai Port official on Tuesday, Aug 17."Two of the missing containers are carrying.....
US oil disaster costed us one billion dollars: BP
London, Jun 2: British Petroleum (BP), the British global energy company informed that the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, caused it the loss of almost a billion dollars. The disaster plunged the company a 13 percent in its.....
BP to burn the excess oil from Gulf spill
London, Jun 10: British Petroleum plans to burn some of the oil it collects from the spill at Gulf of Mexico, as they does not have another ship properly equipped to process and store the unrefined oil. The containment dome collects.....
Gay woman elected mayor in Houston
Houston, Dec 13: Anniose Parker became the first openly gay mayor of Houston after emerging victorious in a hotly-contested poll in the US metropolis on Sunday, Dec 13.The population of the Texas city is about 2.2 million.According to local election data,.....
US: 'Shopoholic' Indian orchestrates $20mn fraud
Houston, Jan 5: An Indian-American executive was fired from her job after she allegedly misappropriated 20 million dollars from the company fund to satisfy the 'shopaholic' in her.Sujata Sachdeva, who was working as the vice president of finance with a US-based.....
US sets oil spill on fire to protect ecology
Gulf of Mexico, Apr 29: Resorting to the last option to stop the oil spill from reaching the shores and causing heavy environmental damage, US Coast Guard set the oil slick across the Gulf of Mexico on fire.This desperate attempt to thwart an ecological disaster is the first time a controlled burn had been attempted off the US shoreline, say media reports. To assess the effectiveness of the method, the crews began test burns on Wednesday, Apr 28.....
We will fight the oil spill together: Obama
Pensacola Beach, June 5: U.S. President Barack Obama promised on Saturday, June 5 to fight the massive oil spill along with the people of the Gulf Coast, as the oil spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states.The spreading oil arrived with the tide on Florida Panhandle"s white sands on Friday, June 4 as BP continued its desperate bid to arrest what is already the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.“It"s brutally unfair......
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