{"id":34028,"date":"2020-11-25T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34028"},"modified":"2020-11-25T05:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T05:06:30","slug":"indian-coast-guard-averts-ecological-disaster-off-nicobar-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-coast-guard-averts-ecological-disaster-off-nicobar-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Coast Guard averts ecological disaster off Nicobar Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian Coast Guard (ICG) averted a major ecological disaster off the bio-sensitive ecology of pristine Nicobar Islands after an oil tanker MT Anasthasia-1 enroute to Dubai carrying approximately 910 MT of bunker fuel, was towed to safety after the vessel suffered a power breakdown and was dangerously drifting towards Kachall island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Katchal is one of the Nicobar Islands, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katchal Island was previously known as Tihanyu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katchal is inhabited by Nicobari Tribes and Migrated Tamilians (For Rubber plantation workers under Sastri-Srimao Bandaranayaka Pact of 1964).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Coast Guard (ICG) averted a major ecological disaster off the bio-sensitive ecology of pristine Nicobar Islands after an oil tanker MT Anasthasia-1 enroute to Dubai carrying approximately 910 MT of bunker fuel, was towed to safety after the vessel suffered a power breakdown and was dangerously drifting towards Kachall island. Daily Current Affairs Quiz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[1091],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-disaster-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34030,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions\/34030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34028"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}