New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Somali pirates currently holding over 60 Indian sailors as hostages, the African country's Puntland state has backed military operations to rescue them and to fight piracy, even as its President Abdirahman Mohammed Mohamud Farole is in India to work out a naval capacity building agreement. "I always support the military operations to fight piracy," Farole told reporters on the sidelines of an event he...
02:18 AM, May 16, 2012
Mumbai: Suspected Somali pirates have struck again. Liberian oil tanker MT Smymi has been hijacked by the suspected pirates off the coast of Oman. Eleven Indians were among the crew members being held captive. The oil tanker was a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) and was carrying 1,35,000 tonnes of oil. The company owning the vessel is believed to be from Greece. Pirates based on the coast of northern Somalia...
10:27 AM, May 12, 2012
The Somali pirates have hijacked a merchant oil tanker, MT Royal Grace, with 17 Indians on board. ...
11:17 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: There seems to be no end to the plight of Indian sailors. In the latest case, the Somali pirates have hijacked a Nigeria-bound vessel with 17 Indians among the 22 taken hostage. The incident took place on March 2. The families of the sailors have not been able to establish any contact with them. They have now turned to the Indian government for help. The Somali pirates have this...
10:01 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: Somalian pirates have hijacked a Dubai-owned Nigeria-bound vessel and taken 22 crew members including 17 Indians hostage. The MT Royal Grace, a chemical tanker was hijacked on March 2 after it set off from a Sharjah port for Nigeria. Three Nigerians, one Pakistani and a Bangladeshi are also on board the MT Grace. Reports say the families of the crew members were not informed by the ship owner about...
09:15 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: It has been exactly two years since the day the MV Iceberg-I was hijacked and its crew were taken hostage. The hapless parents of Dhiraj Tiwari, one of the six Indian sailors taken hostage aboard MV Iceberg-I, say they have met almost all the powers-that-be over the issue but help is yet to come by. Abandoned by the ship owner, tortured by the pirates and forgotten by the...
06:46 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: As many as 21 Indian sailors, who were hijacked on ship MT Fairchem Bogey, were on Saturday freed by the Somali pirates. According to reports, the ship and the crew moved towards a safe sea port after they were freed by the pirates. The ship was hijacked on August 20, 2011. However, around 22 sailors are still in the captivity of the Somali pirates. ...
07:54 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: It has been almost two years since sailors on board the MV Iceberg were taken hostage by Somali pirates. The parents of the six Indian sailors on board have said the government hasn't done much to bring their children back home. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the parents of the sailor Dhiraj Tiwari said, "Since the last 2 years, the government has not been doing anything and when we came...
07:47 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney met the families of the six sailors held captive for over 18 months on MV Iceberg by Somali pirates on Monday to offer his support. ...
10:41 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: Somali pirates released another hijacked ship on Saturday. MV Sinim had nine Indian sailors on board. The ship was hijacked in February 2011. MV Sinim was on its journey from Singapore to UAE when hijacked by the Somali pirates. The ship will now head to Colombo. MV Sinim is a Maltese-flagged bulk carrier and was hijacked off the Oman coast in February 2011. Apart from the Indian crew...
05:06 PM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: Bad weather has further delayed the homecoming of the Indian sailors of MV Suez as PNS Babur, carrying the sailors, will now reach Karachi only on June 23. The nightmarish journey continues for the sailors of Egyptian merchant vessel MV Suez even after a week of their release from the captivity of Somali pirates following payment of a ransom of $2 million. While moving out from the troubled...
02:35 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New Delhi: Ahead of the foreign secretary level meeting on Thursday, Union Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna on Monday criticised Pakistan over the issue of Pakistani and Indian naval warships allegedly resorting to 'risky' and 'dangerous' manoeuvres after hijacked MV Suez was freed by Somali pirates. "We have already registered our protest with government of Pakistan. The Foreign Office has summoned the Pakistan High Commissioner," said Krishna. "We have...
12:31 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: As many as 39 Indians are still under captivity of the Somalian pirates even after six Indians on board the MV Suez ship were released by them. Somalian piracy is a global challenge and menace, which requires a well coordinated response by the international community, government sources said, adding there have been 165 incidents, including 45 hijackings by the pirates, who still hold over 550 hostages of various...
05:40 PM, Jun 19, 2011
Islamabad: Six Indians and 16 other crew members of an Egyptian-owned merchant vessel, recently freed by Somali pirates following 10 months in captivity, are expected to reach their home countries by June 20, Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney said on Friday. The ship MV Suez is currently on its way to Salalah, the capital of the Omani province of Dhofar, and is expected to berth at the port there sometime...
03:33 PM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: Somali pirates on Monday released MV Suez after almost 10 months of hijacking the vessel and all members on board. Twenty two hostages, including six Indians and four Pakistani sailor, have been released. The Indian Navy is said to be coordinating for the safe escort of MV Suez. Reports say that the ship is likely to be taken to Egypt as the ship's owner is from Egypt. The...
08:54 PM, Jun 13, 2011
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