According to IMD the deep depression over the southwest and adjoining south-east Bay of Bengal is very likely to move west-northwestwards and intensify gradually into a cyclonic storm and reach the southwest Bay of Bengal, north Tamil Nadu Puducherry and adjoining South Andhra Pradesh coast
Rai said, "The Border Security Force, Sashastra Seema Bal, Indian Coast Guard,
Railway Protection Force and Assam Rifles have been empowered under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act for making interdiction of narcotic drugs."
North Korea fired over 130 Artillery rounds on Monday which fell into the sea off its east and west coast, Yonhap news agency reported citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh is expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall along with wind gusting upto 90 kms per hours as depression along the Andaman sea to develop into cyclonic storm
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) are being equipped with indigenous state-of-the-art ships and weapons to protect the maritime borders of the country.
The banks of the Godavari river in Coastal Andhra's Konaseema district came alive on Saturday as over 100 fishermen competed in a boat race to acquire a fishing area.
A total of 24 trainee IPS officers, including 10 women officers, from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, visited Eastern Naval Command here on Saturday.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed that a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each is to be paid to seven fishermen and the legal heirs of two others, who were affected in an incident of firing by two Italian marines on a boat off the Kerala coast in February 2012.