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  Search for MH370 enters new phase

  World | April 30, 2014 11:21 IST

  Perth: Australia on Wednesday said the search for the crashed Malaysian jet was now entering a new phase and would transition over the coming days to an intensified undersea exploration, after weeks of a fruitless

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  Exploration firm claims to have sighted MH370 wreckage

  World | April 29, 2014 13:36 IST

  Canberra: An Australian exploration firm has claimed sighting wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a media report said Tuesday."We identified chemical elements and materials that make up a Boeing 777. These are aluminium,

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  Andaman and Nicobar Islands votes for lone seat

  Politics | April 10, 2014 12:22 IST

  Kolkata: Polling began Thursday for the lone Lok Sabha constituency in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a picturesque archipelago of 572 islands situated in the Bay of Bengal, officials said.There are 257,856 voters in the

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  Malaysian plane mystery: Bangladesh searches Bay of Bengal for missing airliner

  World | March 20, 2014 8:38 IST

  Dhaka : Bangladesh Wednesday said it has strengthened its efforts to search for the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing March 8.Following Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's instruction, Bangladesh Navy March 14 launched the search

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  Depression over Bay of Bengal to intensify to deep depression

  India | November 14, 2013 8:11 IST

  Chennai : A depression over Bay of Bengal would intensify into a deep depression and bring heavy rains under its influence as it crosses the Tamil Nadu coast between Nagapattinam and Chennai by November 15,

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  A look at devastating cyclones from Bay of Bengal

  India | October 13, 2013 6:22 IST

  New Delhi: Cyclone Phailin is expected to cause extensive damage in eastern India, with a storm surge that will flood low-lying areas and heavy rains and strong winds that will last for hours. Here are

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  Depression over Bay of Bengal, Odisha fishermen alerted

  India | July 30, 2013 17:11 IST

  Bhubaneswar, July 30: Odisha Tuesday cautioned its fishermen against venturing out into the sea as a low pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression, an official said.The depression lay centred

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  Monsoon advances further in Bay of Bengal

  India | May 20, 2013 23:12 IST

  New Delhi, May 20: South-west monsoon today advanced further covering the entire Andaman Sea and parts of Bay of Bengal as a section of scientists forecast early onset over Kerala.“The southwest monsoon has further advanced

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  Agni-V Launch Put Off Till Thursday Due To Bad Weather

  India | April 18, 2012 22:46 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 18: The maiden test-firing of Agni-V Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed at the last moment till Thursday due to bad weather conditions at the test range off the coast

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  Defunct German Satellite Falls Into Bay Of Bengal

  India | October 25, 2011 17:39 IST

  Berlin, Oct 25: The German Aerospace Center says its defunct research satellite that returned to Earth on Sunday came down over the Bay of Bengal, off South Asia.The center says the minivan-sized ROSAT satellite re-entered

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  432 Fishermen Rescued By Coast Guard

  India | June 18, 2011 19:11 IST

  Kolkata, Jun 18: The Coastguard today found 27 of the 33 missing trawlers that went missing in the Bay of Bengal since Thursday night during heavy rains.The fishing vessels were found from Kendo creek from

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  Trawler Capsize Toll Increases To 69

  India | November 01, 2010 22:01 IST

  Kakdwip (WB), Nov 1: The death toll in the trawler capsize in Hooghly river shot up to 69 tonight with 28 bodies retrieved from the waters, even as search for 43 others missing was suspended