The New Diamond crude tanker after an onboard fire was extinguished on September 6, 2020. Colombo, Sri Lanka: India on Tuesday sent fresh supplies of fire fighting chemicals to help fight a new fire at a damaged tanker loaded with a massive cargo of crude oil off the east coast …
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The ship carrying 270,000 metric tons of crude oil from Kuwait to India caught fire on Thursday. New Delhi: The fire on board the MT New Diamond tanker has been “successfully contained” with the help of India, the Sri Lankan Navy said today, adding that the ship has been towed …
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A Filipino crew member was confirmed to have been killed in an explosion in the engine room (Reuters) Colombo, Sri Lanka: A Panama-registered tanker burned out of control for a second day off Sri Lanka on Friday, sparking fears of a new oil spill in the Indian Ocean. The Sri …
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COLOMBO / NEW DELHI: A new fire broke out in a supertanker carrying around 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lankaspokesmen for the country’s Navy said Thursday, adding that one of its 23 crew members was missing and another wounded. Navy …
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NEW DELHI: China now has the largest navy in the world and is aggressively seeking to establish logistics bases in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance its strategic reach, while working assiduously to at least double the number of its nuclear warheads in the next. decade. This is the most recent …
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