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Aug
New Delhi (Gurpreet Singh): A major joint search and rescue mission is currently in progress across the Bay of Bengal after a Panama-flagged cargo ship carrying 24 crew members foundered off the coast of Odisha on Saturday. While emergency responders successfully recovered two mariners alive from an emergency life raft late Saturday evening, 22 crew members remain missing at sea. The bulk carrier, identified as the MV Ocean Winner, had departed from the Odisha coastline on Friday laden with a cargo of iron ore bound for Singapore. Trouble emerged when coastal monitoring stations lost all radio and electronic communication with…