
Rome: Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said. Italy's national civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation off a Tuscan island, said three of the bodies were recovered a few hours after being spotted by fire department divers. It said they are those of...

12:18 AM, Feb 23, 2012

Giglio: The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia could be sentenced to a cumulative total of more than 2,500 years in prison if convicted of causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship and multiple counts of manslaughter, it emerged on Monday. The length of sentence was calculated, which totted up the jail terms that Captain Francesco Schettino could face if convicted on all the charges that are expected to be brought against...

03:25 PM, Feb 08, 2012

Divers resumed their search for survivors from the Italian cruise ship on Saturday. ...

09:10 AM, Jan 22, 2012

The first batch of Indians rescued from the Italian cruise liner returned to Delhi on Thursday. ...

02:27 PM, Jan 19, 2012

Giglio: More than 48 hours after the hull of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was torn apart by rocks off the Tuscan coast, its captain, Francesco Schettino says he's not at fault. "I don't know if it was detected or not but on the nautical chart it was marked just as water at some 100-150 meters from the rocks and we were about 300 meters from the shore, more...

09:48 PM, Jan 16, 2012

Giglio: Two hundred and one Indians have been rescued from aboard the sinking ship Costa Concordia, that hit rocks off the coast of Italy on Friday night, said Sunil Aggarwal, First secretary, Indian Embassy, Rome. He added that one Indian was still missing. "People saw him (the missing Indian) rescuing the passengers. There are no eye witnesses to tell us where he is," he said. He said that there would...

08:02 AM, Jan 16, 2012

New Delhi: Around 130 Indians were rescued on Sunday from the shipwreck of the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, which hit rocks and badly listed near the Italian island of Giglio, late on Friday. Rescue workers are still searching for the survivors; around 4000 people were on board. The luxury 114,500-tonne ship was operated by Costa Crociere, a unit of Carnival Corporation and Plc, the world's largest cruise company. The stricken...

11:14 PM, Jan 15, 2012