Navy, Coast Guard's joint rescue operation save 9 people struck in sea on tug boat at Kaup beach
Kaup: On Monday, the Navy began its rescue operation to save the ‘Koramandal Express Tug’, which was in imminent danger after being caught at sea near the Kaup lighthouse. The 9 staff members who were on board the stranded vessel were successfully rescued in a joint rescue operation conducted by the Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.
The 9 staff members - who were working on the ‘Koramandal Supporter 9’ shuttle belonging to the KEI R.S.O.R Company, which had received the contract to connect an underground Pipe for crude oil from Mangaluru’s M.R.P.L Company – were rescued by in the joint operation carried out by the Indian Coast Guard and Navy on Monday morning.
The rescue operation was conducted using a speed boat, shuttle, and helicopter. Two of the stranded staff members were rescued through the helicopter, while the remaining 7 were rescued using the speed boat, and taken to the N.M.P.T port on a Coast Guard’s Shuttle-ship. A team of doctors were stationed at N.M.P.T, ready to conduct an overall medical examination of the rescued staff.
The 9 staff workers belonging to the tug which cooperates, aides in the arrival and departure of boats from the new Mangaluru port at Panambur, had crashed into a boulder 5 Nautical Miles away from the Kaup Lighthouse and inadvertently become stuck between the boulders. Adverse weather conditions had hindered rescue operations on Saturday. The rescue operations could not be undertaken even on Sunday. In the background of this, on Monday morning, the helicopter belonging to the Navy arrived from Kochi and aided in the rescue of the 9 stranded staff members, it is learned.
The staff on board the stranded vessel, Captain Mullah Khan, Second Captain Gaurav Kumar, Shantanu A.V, Rahul, Deepak, Prashant, Tushar, Lakshmi Narayan, and Rood Ahmed, are the rescued individuals.
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UP Cong chief Ajay Rai hospitalised after fainting, stable
Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai was hospitalised here after he fell unconscious due to low sodium levels, party leaders said on Saturday.
They said he was admitted to Medanta Hospital on Friday evening and is stable.
"Ajay Rai was admitted to Medanta Hospital in Lucknow at around 6 pm on Friday after he fell unconscious as his sodium levels had dropped. He fell unconscious at his residence in Lucknow. For the entire day, he was engaged in party programmes and had also gone to the airport," Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Anshu Awasthi told PTI.
Congress in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Avinash Pande told PTI, "Now, he (Ajay Rai) is stable and I am also reaching Lucknow."
Medanta Hospital Director Dr Rakesh Kapoor told PTI that Rai collapsed at his home on Friday evening and was subsequently admitted to the hospital's emergency ward.
Medical examinations revealed that Rai was suffering from a sodium deficiency and elevated blood pressure. Doctors administered immediate treatment and he is doing significantly better now, Kapoor said.
A team of doctors is monitoring his health. Rai is conversing with others and his condition is stable, he added.
In a post on X late Friday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Rai a speedy recovery.
Rai hails from Varanasi and had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections against Modi from the parliamentary constituency. The Congress appointed him as the Uttar Pradesh unit chief in 2023.
