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Orissa has verified to Goa the identity of 14 people, who had gone missing last week in Cyclone Phyan that hit the Arabian sea, an official said Friday. They were working as fishermen in Goa.

Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) vice-president Viral Mehta and two others, arrested for the Sep 23 collapse of an under-construction power plant chimney at Korba town which killed at least 41 workers, were Tuesday sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Mild tremors were felt in several parts of western Maharashtra and Mumbai city Saturday evening. The quake, with its epicentre at Koyna, measured 4.8 on the Richter scale.

The Tamil Nadu government Friday said fishermen who set out for fishing in 150 boats from Kanyakumari and were caught in the Phyan storm are reaching the Maharashtra and Kerala coast.

A senior Goa fisheries department official said Thursday that six trawlers, one canoe and more than 50 fishermen were missing in the aftermath of Cyclone Phyan, that passed through the Arabian sea off Goa.

Demanding that Dow Chemicals pay for cleaning up the toxic contamination due to the Bhopal gas tragedy, more than 300 survivors of the disaster staged a protest outside the company's office in this Uttar Pradesh suburb of Delhi Thursday.

An intensive search is on for around 200 fishermen and 16 boats belonging to three villages in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district, caught in Cyclone Phyan in the Arabian sea, officials said Saturday.

Opposition leader J. Jayalalithaa Saturday demanded the Tamil Nadu government speed up relief efforts in the Nilgiri district and increase the compensation amount to the victims of landslides triggered by heavy rains which claimed 43 lives, destroyed hundreds of homes and standing crops.

The toll has risen to 38 Friday amid China's heaviest snowfall in the last 60 years, China Daily reported.

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors Thursday criticised the Madhya Pradesh government's announcement to throw open Union Carbide's now defunct pesticide plant here for the public on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy as a "dangerous publicity stunt" and termed it a violation of court orders.