The Coastal Express

The train between Bengaluru and Coimbatore is likely to be flagged off on December 30 along with another Vande Bharat train from Mangaluru in coastal Karnataka to Madgaon in Goa.

Expressing concern about protection of dams in the coastal state of Goa, a Congress legislator Aleixo Reginaldo on Monday wanted to know in the assembly, if the government had taken steps to prevent crabs from destroying dams in Goa.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday expressed confidence that members from the minority community in the coastal state will vote for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

At least 18 people have died after an express train derailed and flipped over on a popular coastal tourist route in Taiwan on Sunday, the island's worst rail accident for more than 25 years.

Sitting Rajya Sabha member and Goa Congress chief Mr Shantaram Naik today filed nomination papers as the party candidate for the election to the Upper House of Parliament from the coastal state. Pitted against BJP's state chief Mr Vinay Tendulkar, Mr Naik expressed confidence of winning the election with the "support of like-minded secular forces."

A Parliamentary committee has expressed its "shock" over a special report prepared by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) which found that about 37 per cent of minor ports in the country are absolutely defenceless.

The railways have cancelled 56 trains in coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in view of cyclonic storm Phailin which is set to hit the east coast this evening between now and 8 pm.

Norway's government announced plans Friday for what is being labelled the world's first tunnel for large ships, aimed at helping them navigate a treacherous section of the southwestern coast.

When Cyclone Thane wreaked havoc on Thazanguda, a coastal fishing hamlet here, it destroyed the source of potable water but gave villagers an alternative: tender coconut water as hundreds of coconut trees had being uprooted.

The very severe cyclonic storm Thane changed its direction and is likely to make a landfall near Chennai on Friday morning.

The Central Government had sanctioned Rs 1441.75 crore to rebuild the coastal areas in Kerala. In October 2006, the then Revenue Minister K P Rajendran announced the scheme in the Assembly.Areas like housing, drinking water, power, social welfare, costal protection and construction of roads and bridges were included in the scheme.Though bridges and...

Seven years after the massive tsunami devastated coastal Kerala on December 26, 2004, the fisherfolk are still left in the lurch owing to the lethargy of the government. Lakhs of people, who depend on the sea to make a living, are now afraid of it. The tsunami that wreaked havoc on coastal areas, especially the Karunagappally and Cherthala taluks, ...

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

The train between Bengaluru and Coimbatore is likely to be flagged off on December 30 along with another Vande Bharat train from Mangaluru in coastal Karnataka to Madgaon in Goa.

Expressing concern about protection of dams in the coastal state of Goa, a Congress legislator Aleixo Reginaldo on Monday wanted to know in the assembly, if the government had taken steps to prevent crabs from destroying dams in Goa.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday expressed confidence that members from the minority community in the coastal state will vote for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

At least 18 people have died after an express train derailed and flipped over on a popular coastal tourist route in Taiwan on Sunday, the island's worst rail accident for more than 25 years.

Sitting Rajya Sabha member and Goa Congress chief Mr Shantaram Naik today filed nomination papers as the party candidate for the election to the Upper House of Parliament from the coastal state. Pitted against BJP's state chief Mr Vinay Tendulkar, Mr Naik expressed confidence of winning the election with the "support of like-minded secular forces."

A Parliamentary committee has expressed its "shock" over a special report prepared by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) which found that about 37 per cent of minor ports in the country are absolutely defenceless.

The railways have cancelled 56 trains in coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in view of cyclonic storm Phailin which is set to hit the east coast this evening between now and 8 pm.

Norway's government announced plans Friday for what is being labelled the world's first tunnel for large ships, aimed at helping them navigate a treacherous section of the southwestern coast.

When Cyclone Thane wreaked havoc on Thazanguda, a coastal fishing hamlet here, it destroyed the source of potable water but gave villagers an alternative: tender coconut water as hundreds of coconut trees had being uprooted.

The very severe cyclonic storm Thane changed its direction and is likely to make a landfall near Chennai on Friday morning.

The Central Government had sanctioned Rs 1441.75 crore to rebuild the coastal areas in Kerala. In October 2006, the then Revenue Minister K P Rajendran announced the scheme in the Assembly.Areas like housing, drinking water, power, social welfare, costal protection and construction of roads and bridges were included in the scheme.Though bridges and...

Seven years after the massive tsunami devastated coastal Kerala on December 26, 2004, the fisherfolk are still left in the lurch owing to the lethargy of the government. Lakhs of people, who depend on the sea to make a living, are now afraid of it. The tsunami that wreaked havoc on coastal areas, especially the Karunagappally and Cherthala taluks, ...

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.