Posts Tagged ‘coastline’

Dhaka, Apr.2 (ANI): The Government of Bangladesh has taken its first step towards tackling the menace of corporate corruption, which exists on a large scale in the country. Corporate corruption is a force that is as destructive as the cyclones that have ravaged the country's coastline in the past. Last week, Bangladesh's newly elected government took its first high-profile swipe at the problem. According to the ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 31 (ANI): Union Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Tuesday asked all concerned agencies to plug gaps in coastal security within a definite time frame. Antony, who chaired a high-level meeting of officials of various ministries and forces, called for speedy implementation of the maritime security plan, approved by the Government recently. ... Full story

London, March 20 (ANI): A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future. According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the ... Full story

London, March 10 (ANI): Activists in the Philippines have rescued what they believe might be the world's smallest living whale shark in recorded history. According to a report in Telegraph, maritime officials and activists in Pilar, a town in the eastern Philippines, rescued the ... Full story

London, March 9 (ANI): Climatologists have warned that rising sea levels caused by global warming could destroy the Norfolk Broads and Thames Estuary in the UK within a hundred years. According to a report in the Telegraph, low-lying areas of the UK are under threat because the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting faster than previously thought. Climate change is also likely to lead to ... Full story

Kochi, Feb 28 (ANI): To enhance security and maintain the supremacy of the country in wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and to minimize threats from the sea, the Government has completely overhauled coastal security by designating the Navy as the nodal authority responsible for overall maritime security. The Coast Guard, the State Marine Police and ... Full story

Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): A new study has determined that commercial ships in the world emit almost half as much particulate pollution into the air as the total amount released by cars. The study is the first to provide a global estimate of maritime ... Full story

New Delhi, Feb.18 (ANI): Coastal security across the country is being strengthened through a series of measures, the government revealed on Wednesday. Radhika V. Selvi, Minister of State of Home, told members of the Rajya Sabha that several meetings have been held in the ministries of Home, Defence, Shipping, Road Transport and Highways and Agriculture to review, upgrade and strengthen the coastal security of the country. ... Full story

New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): Seventh edition of Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm rally, one of India's toughest motor-sport events, was flagged off here on Tuesday. The six-day rally, which has many firsts to its credit, will traverse approximately 2,600 kilometres through the interiors of Rajasthan and along the Gujarat coastline before culminating ... Full story

London, Feb 12 (ANI): Holidaymakers in Somerset have managed to videotape a cylinder shaped UFO hovering above the British coastline. The flying object is said to have left caravaners baffled after it hovered over a busy campsite in Brean, Somerset, darting up and down for more than 10 minutes. Though the police have reported no such sightings, witnesses at the scene were left convinced they had seen ... Full story