A Sri Lankan piper boat was found washed ashore on Munaikkadu beach near Mandapam area of Tamil Nadu's Ramanathapuram district, officials said on Tuesday.
According to a press release by The World Bank, these optimistic forecasts come from the World Bank's Malaysia Economic Monitor, titled "Raising the Tide, Lifting All Boats," unveiled today.
Four people still remain missing and three were rescued after a fishing boat capsized nautical miles from Munambam on Thursday, an official statement said.
The boat was carrying seven fishermen and after the boat capsized three of the drowning fishermen were immediately saved by a Fishing Boat operating in the vicinity, however, four fishermen went missing, said officials.
"As a precautionary measure for the Northeast Monsoon and due to heavy rainfall for the past few days in Tamil Nadu, rubber boats, life jackets, and woodcutters are also kept ready, " said the official.
Maritime police launched boats and aerial drones searching for survivors. Given the prevailing currents, it’s not certain that any bodies will necessarily wash up.
According to New South Wales Water Police Acting Superintendent Siobhan Munro, police responded to reports that two people were in the water just outside the headland past Botany Bay around 6 am (local time).
In a momentous occasion that marks a significant leap in Assam's transportation infrastructure, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Thursday ceremonially launched a strategic addition to the state's Inland Water Transport fleet.
"We have been forced to cross the stream with a makeshift boat to reach our school. We are so scared to cross the stream, but we have no option," a girl student of MRA High School of Niz Baghmari said.
In his intervention during the 54th Session of UN Human Rights in Geneva, Junaid Qureshi said, “In the worst migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea, a boat carrying 750 people capsized in June this year. At least 300 people from Pakistan, including 135 from Pakistan-administered Jamm
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