Goa Coast

The fire that broke out on July 19 on a merchant navy ship off the coast of Goa is under control, a senior Indian Coast Guard official said on Sunday, adding one crew member had died in the blaze.

A huge fire has broken out on a merchant container vessel near Goa. The ship was on passage from Mundra to Sri Lanka's Colombo and is now located around 102 nautical miles south west of Goa.

The Coast Guard on Thursday successfully evacuated an Indian passenger from the Italian-flagged cruise liner Costa Serena approximately 80 nautical miles off the coast of Goa, an official said.

A MiG-29K aircraft of th Navy crashed during a routine sortie off Goa coast today after developing a technical malfunction. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued in a swift search and rescue operation, the Navy said in a statement.

The Defence Ministry on Tuesday signed a contract with Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) for the construction of two pollution control vessels for the Indian Coast Guard at a cost of about Rs 583 crore, officials said.

Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth responded to a distress call and rescued 15 crew from a fishing boat named Milad, off Goa coast on Monday as a very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour began making landfall.

Cyclone Tauktae - an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' - is "very likely" to make landfall in Gujarat's Bhavnagar between 10 and 11 pm, with winds up to 165 km per hour. At 2.30 pm it was 165 km west-northwest of Mumbai and moving at 15 km per hour.

This year's Honda Drive To Discover 10 saw us travel from Bengaluru to Goa, covering over 800 kilometres, exploring everything from the ghats of Chikmagalur, to the coast of Kundapura. And keeping us company was the entire fleet of Honda cars.

The Indian Navy on Friday paid last respects to Commander Nishant Singh, the fighter pilot who died in a MiG-29K crash off Goa coast on November 26, with full military honours, a senior official said.

The Indian Navy's Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) helped the Goa police locate and recover the body of a 43-year-old man who had drowned off South Goa coast, an official said on Saturday.

Monsoon news and updates: Mumbai and its neighbouring areas received extremely heavy showers, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. Widespread rainfall is also expected over the next two days in the Konkan coast, Goa and Gujarat, the weather office said.

Monsoon 2020: The weather office said monsoon has been advancing as per schedule. It arrived in Goa and the Konkan coast today

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday commissioned a ship and two interceptor boats of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in Goa through video conferencing from New Delhi in the backdrop of COVID-19, a step that will boost operational capability of the maritime security agency.

Large gatherings have been banned in North Goa after intelligence inputs about possible terror activity along the western coast, the police said.

The Congress in Goa today cited RTI documents to claim that the cargo vessel stuck off the state coast since October 25 had originated from Pakistan.

The fire that broke out on July 19 on a merchant navy ship off the coast of Goa is under control, a senior Indian Coast Guard official said on Sunday, adding one crew member had died in the blaze.

A huge fire has broken out on a merchant container vessel near Goa. The ship was on passage from Mundra to Sri Lanka's Colombo and is now located around 102 nautical miles south west of Goa.

The Coast Guard on Thursday successfully evacuated an Indian passenger from the Italian-flagged cruise liner Costa Serena approximately 80 nautical miles off the coast of Goa, an official said.

A MiG-29K aircraft of th Navy crashed during a routine sortie off Goa coast today after developing a technical malfunction. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued in a swift search and rescue operation, the Navy said in a statement.

The Defence Ministry on Tuesday signed a contract with Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) for the construction of two pollution control vessels for the Indian Coast Guard at a cost of about Rs 583 crore, officials said.

Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth responded to a distress call and rescued 15 crew from a fishing boat named Milad, off Goa coast on Monday as a very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour began making landfall.

Cyclone Tauktae - an 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' - is "very likely" to make landfall in Gujarat's Bhavnagar between 10 and 11 pm, with winds up to 165 km per hour. At 2.30 pm it was 165 km west-northwest of Mumbai and moving at 15 km per hour.

This year's Honda Drive To Discover 10 saw us travel from Bengaluru to Goa, covering over 800 kilometres, exploring everything from the ghats of Chikmagalur, to the coast of Kundapura. And keeping us company was the entire fleet of Honda cars.

The Indian Navy on Friday paid last respects to Commander Nishant Singh, the fighter pilot who died in a MiG-29K crash off Goa coast on November 26, with full military honours, a senior official said.

The Indian Navy's Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) helped the Goa police locate and recover the body of a 43-year-old man who had drowned off South Goa coast, an official said on Saturday.

Monsoon news and updates: Mumbai and its neighbouring areas received extremely heavy showers, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. Widespread rainfall is also expected over the next two days in the Konkan coast, Goa and Gujarat, the weather office said.

Monsoon 2020: The weather office said monsoon has been advancing as per schedule. It arrived in Goa and the Konkan coast today

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday commissioned a ship and two interceptor boats of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in Goa through video conferencing from New Delhi in the backdrop of COVID-19, a step that will boost operational capability of the maritime security agency.

Large gatherings have been banned in North Goa after intelligence inputs about possible terror activity along the western coast, the police said.

The Congress in Goa today cited RTI documents to claim that the cargo vessel stuck off the state coast since October 25 had originated from Pakistan.