'Pirates of the Caribbean' actress Keira Knightley is engaged to marry her musician boyfriend James Righton, her publicist said on Friday. Knightley, 27, who was Oscar-nominated for her lead role in the 2005 film 'Pride & Prejudice,' has been dating Righton, who plays in British indie band Klaxons, for about a year. "I can confirm that Keira is engaged to be married to James Righton," British publicist Sara Keene said....
10:41 AM, May 28, 2012
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
Washington: The United States on Monday again put Russia and China on its annual list of countries with the worst records of preventing the theft of copyrighted material and other intellectual property (IP), the US Trade Representative's office said. Argentina, Canada and India were also put on the "priority watch list," along with Algeria, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela. "This year's Special 301 Report is more significant...
09:59 AM, May 02, 2012
Mumbai: An Italian vessel captured by Somali pirates off the coast of Oman in December with 18 crew members, including seven Indians, has been released. MT Enrico Ievoli, hijacked on December 27, has been released by the pirates, the Director General of Shipping said in a statement in Mumbai on Tuesday. The vessel is proceeding towards safe port where the crew would disembark and will be repatriated to their respective...
12:40 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The trailer of 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits' is out. The film has voice over by Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven for pivotal characters. Directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, the film features Pirate Captain setting out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the...
11:55 AM, Apr 17, 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
Washington: Pirate activities have extended to as far as the waters off the coast of India, making it difficult for patrolling and effective action, a US official has said. "Pirate activity has even extended as far as the waters off the coast of India. This increase makes it difficult for naval or law enforcement ships and other assets to reach the scene of a pirate attack quickly enough to disrupt...
09:25 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The families of seven Indian sailors, on board 'MV Asphalt Venture' that was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2010, are wondering why the Indian government is taking so long to secure the release of the sailors. Some of them are to accompany Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy when he goes to New Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the issue with the central government. The Panama-flagged vessel 'MV Asphalt Venture',...
12:00 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Somalia: A British tourist freed on Wednesday by Somali pirates after six months in captivity said she did not know for weeks that her husband was killed in the raid on a luxury beach resort on the Kenyan coast. "I just assumed he was alive," Judith Tebbutt said, speaking haltingly in a video broadcast by the BBC, adding that her son, Oliver, told her of the killing. "That was difficult,"...
02:41 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Geneva: Within three months of the launch of the Internet "pornography" domain ".xxx," 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday. Sources at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported that among complainants to its dispute resolution system over .xxx - usually called dot-triple x - were banks, a jewelry business and an online...
11:08 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Kochi The firing by crew of the Italian merchant vessel that left two Indian fishermen dead was an "error of judgement", the Coast Guard has said. The vessel, Enrica Lexie, had not reported the incident, it added. It was the coastal police at Neendakara in Kollam district which reported the incident to the Coast Guard and search operations were launched, Inspector General SPS Basra, Regional Commander of Coast Guard Region...
12:22 PM, Feb 17, 2012
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