Even as parties have approached the SC for clarification on its orders on shipbreaking safety norms, 88 ships have illegally beached at Alang in Gujarat without prior decontamination or requisite ...
Of the 196 ships sold for scrap in the first quarter of 2017, 65 percent ended up on beaches in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, said South Asia quarterly update of NGO Shipbreaking Platform. 128 ships ...
Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...
ALANG, India — The last voyage of the Nikolai Pogodin, a Russian freighter plagued by debt and barnacles, ended in the hopeless hour before dawn on the beach at Plot No. 20. The lights of the Pogodin ...
Expressing concerns over working conditions at Alang ship-breaking yard, Toxics Watch Alliance (TWA) convener, Gopal Krishna has written a letter to chief minister Narendra Modi. Krishna's letter ...
New Delhi: Violating the Supreme Court’s September directive asking ships arriving in India to be scrapped to beach only after they meet a certain condition, 53 of them have beached at Gujarat’s Alang ...
A major fire broke out at Plot No. 27 at Alang beach in Gujarat on Thursday killing as many as 6 people, it is reported. Reports say that a huge oil spill caught fire, engulfing the ship that was ...