New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): Sailors Nethra Kumanan (Laser Radial) and Vishnu Saravanan (Laser Standard), as well as KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar (Skiff 49er) on Friday, secured Mission Olympic Cell approvals for their proposals to train and compete overseas ahead of Tokyo 2020.
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Indian sailors KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, who will compete as a team in the Men's Skiff 49er Class competition at the Tokyo Olympics, have had each other's back firmly over the years and still continue to do so.
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): Four Indian sailors will be participating in this year's Tokyo Olympics and this will also be the first time that India would be competing in three sailing events in the Olympics.
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): Six athletes which include two wrestlers and four sailors have been included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) core group.
Karwar (Karnataka) [India], April 6 (ANI): Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat visited Naval Base in Karwar on Monday and was briefed about the ongoing works under Project Seabird. Later, he interacted with officers and sailors at the station.
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): 16 Indian sailors stuck aboard cargo ship MV Anastasia in China will reach India on February 14, the Union Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Wednesday.
London [UK], January 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Pirates have attacked Liberian-flagged cargo ship MV Mozart in the Gulf of Guinea and kidnapped 15 sailors and one sailor was killed, the Dryad Global maritime security portal said on Saturday.
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): A total of 455 new trainees of the Indian Navy and Coast Guard graduated from Indian Navy Ship Chilka on Friday at a ceremony marking the successful culmination of 12 weeks of ab-initio sailors' training at the INS.
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): The Indian embassy in Beijing has asked for approval for crew change of two ships stranded in Chinese waters, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 2 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar needs to urgenly help the 40 Indian sailors, among whom several are from Maharashtra, stranded in China, said Kshitij Thakur, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi MLA.
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha lawmaker Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday wrote to External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar urging him to prioritise the rescue and evacuation of 39 Indian sailors stranded in Chinese waters.
Moscow [Russia], December 31 (ANI/Sputnik): An operational team of the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery decided to continue searches for the bodies of sailors who went missing after the Onega trawler sunk in the Barents Sea, the country's agency of sea and river transport said on Thursd