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.
In order to review the preparedness of the Indian Coast Guards, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday visited the headquarters of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) in a series of Annual Maritime Search and Rescue (M-SAR) Meetings, conducted its 20th National Maritime Search and Rescue (NMSAR) Board meeting at Kevadia in the Narmada district of Gujarat on Friday.
Indian Coast Guard (ICG) chief VS Patahania on Monday undertook his maiden sortie of 45 minutes in an indigenous Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Earlier in the wake of Sitrang alert ICG had launched its Dornier aircraft post landfall of cyclone to sanitize the area close to the coast off Odisha and West Bengal and to render assistance to the mariners affected by the cyclone. During the surveillance sortie, ICG Dornier aircraft sighte
These rescued fishermen were clinging to floating debris after their fishing boat sank. They are planned to be handed over to the Bangladesh Coast Guard in accordance with MoU existing between the two Coast Guards.
Geneva [Switzerland], October 19 (ANI): A strained global supply of cholera vaccines has prompted the international body which distributes oral cholera vaccines during outbreaks, to temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen in cholera outbreak response campaigns, using in
Kanniyakumari (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Sunday said that it had apprehended a fishing boat with five Sri Lankans off the Kanniyakumari coast in Tamil Nadu.
New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): Indian Coast Guard (ICG) chief VS Pathania on Saturday said that ICG had taken over custody of the fishermen who were taken captive by Pakistan Maritime Security Agency ship Barkat on October 6.
Kutch (Gujarat) [India], October 8 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Saturday informed that they have seized heroin worth Rs 350 crore from a Pakistani boat off the state coast.
Ratnagiri (Maharashtra) [India], September 16 (ANI): As many as 19 persons were saved in a successful Indian Coast Guard rescue operation at the sea 41 miles west of the Ratnagiri coast on Friday.
Kutch (Gujarat) [India], September 14 (ANI): Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in a joint operation on Wednesday apprehended a Pakistani boat Al Tayyasa with six crew members in Indian waters carrying approximately 40 kgs of Heroine worth Rs 200 crore.