Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, requesting the central government to secure the release of Tamil fishermen and their fishing boats detained by Sri Lanka.
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.
10 of the 13 who were mentioned in the chargesheet were arrested in December 2022 with a huge consignment of drugs and arms, hidden in gas cylinders, from a Pakistani fishing boat, the NIA stated.
A total of 78 people were reported killed after a fishing boat carrying refugees and migrants capsized and sank on the southern coast of Greece, according to Al Jazeera.
Officers of Customs Preventive, Ramanathapuram seized four gold bars weighing 2.5 kg valued at Rs. 1.45 crore, smuggled from Sri Lanka using a fishing boat in the south sea of Nochiurani on Wednesday.
A joint operation launched by the Indian Coast Guard with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Customs resulted in the seizure of 32.689 kgs of gold, valued at approximately Rs 20.2 crore, from two fishing boats at Gulf of Mannar area in Tamil Nadu, stated an official release o
In a statement, DRI informed that specific intelligence was developed by DRI, Chennai that foreign-origin gold is being smuggled from Sri Lanka through the Vedhalai coast in Ramnad (TN) by different gangs using fishing boats.
Iran has remained persistent towards the resolution of major issues with its eastern neighbour ranging from cross-border terrorism to improvement in economic and military ties. However, Pakistan's efforts to bolster its ties with Iran have come to nought due to political and economic chaos i
According to the Fishermen's association, the fishermen went fishing from Mandapam's north coast. While the boat was fishing in the Palk Straits, a Sri Lankan Navy ship passing by collided with it, breaking the upper part of the boat.
Two Chinese vessels entered Japan's territorial water near the Senkaku Islands on Friday, pursuing two Japanese fishing boats in the East China Sea, Japan's NHK World reported.
The undersea internet cables serve the Matsu island chain, part of Taiwan, but at points, which are only a few miles from China, internet outage is not unusual. The cause of Matsu's internet outage is familiar: Chinese fishing boats, so omnipresent that the nightly glow of their green lights