Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Workers and their supervisors at the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang, in coastal South Gujarat, are busy these days. For someone who had seen this graveyard of ships a decade ago with its ...

The sleepy coastal village of Alang, about 50 kilometres from Bhavnagar in Gujarat, also known as the largest ship-recycling hub in the world, had a bad reputation until a decade ago. Reports ...

The battle to save the decommissioned Indian Navy carrier, Viraat, from being broken up for scrap has reached the Bombay High Court, with a Mumbai-based company filing a petition that will be heard on ...

A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led to an influx of rigs and tanks in Gujarat's Alang for dismantling. (Image: IE) A slump in global crude oil price between 2014 and 2017 led ...

The year 2025 saw a 21 per cent jump in the number of end-of-life ships that came to Gujarat’s Alang - one of the world’s largest ship-breaking yards - for recycling. In 2025, Alang saw the arrival of ...

Rajkot: The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) conducted an inquiry into an oil spill near Sartanpar and concluded that the spill was the result of a collision between two ships, one of which was ...

Workers on a ship anchored at ship recycling yard in Alang, Bhavnagar were shocked to find a leopard on the vessel on Saturday night. The ship breaking yard officials alerted the police and the forest ...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon. “In the olden days, ships lined ...