Addressing the media, Sajjanar said the group was travelling from Makkah to Madinah when their bus collided with an oil tanker nearly 25 km before Medina, causing an explosion that engulfed the vehicle within minutes.
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India is planning a major shift in its energy shipping strategy by building its own fleet of oil tankers to reduce the massive freight costs currently paid to foreign vessel operators, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Wednesday.
Deputy SP Udhampur Prehlad Sharma, while talking to ANI, said that Udhampur Police tightened the noose of drug peddlers and bovine smugglers in Udhampur.
An elderly couple was killed in a suspected hit-and-run accident on the Pune-Solapur Highway near Bhigwan in Pune district on Sunday morning, a police official from Pune Rural Police said.
Indian Navy successfully airlifted a 41-year-old Indian seafarer from the Singapore-flagged oil tanker Eagle Veracruz in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, after receiving an emergency alert.
According to the fire official, "A fire broke out in a BPCL (Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited) empty tanker in Cherlapally in the Medchal-Malkajgiri district. Two fire vehicles reached the spot and controlled the fire. There were no casualties in this fire, and the cause of the fire is y
A collision occurred off the northeast coast of England on Monday when a Portuguese container ship, the Solong, smashed into a US military-chartered oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate.
Russia on Thursday slammed the US for its "inappropriate and counter-productive" demands that India stop unloading Russian oil tankers. The US had set a deadline of February 27 for India to comply.
Finnish authorities detained an oil tanker on Thursday over suspicions of involvement in damaging critical undersea cables, with indications that the vessel may be linked to Russia's "shadow fleet" designed to bypass Western sanctions, according to a report by The New York Times.
The oil tanker was going towards Chamba and went out of control near Bemund under Thana Narendranagar area and crashed into a ditch about 150 meters deep from the main road, in which two people identified as the driver and conductor have been seriously injured.