Five Sri Lankan nationals, including a man, a woman, and three girls, were rescued from a sandbank near Mandapam on Wednesday morning after being stranded for nearly 24 hours.
North Korea fired several cruise missiles off the west coast on Friday, marking its fourth cruise missile launch this year, Yonhap news agency reported, citing the South Korean military.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) celebrated its 48th Raising Day on February 1, in New Delhi, commemorating its remarkable journey from a modest beginning in 1977 to becoming a formidable force in maritime security.
A US F-16 fighter jet on Wednesday crashed in waters off South Korea's west coast, South Korea-based Yonhap News Agency reported citing the US Air Force.
The Coast Guard Administration has confirmed that a project of making upgrades to a wharf in Taiwan-controlled Taiping Island in South China Sea has been completed, and added that the project would allow larger vessels to dock at it, according to Focus Taiwan, citing the Central News Agency.
In its second rescue operation within a day after saving another Iranian-flagged fishing vessel, FV Iman, from Somali pirates, which had 17 crew members onboard in its anti-piracy operations along the east coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden on Monday, an official statement said.
Indian Coastal Conference Shipping Association Vice President Atul Vithal Jadhav has demanded that the Union government should come up with a "financing policy" for the coastal shipping industry in the interim budget in 2024.