A day after a Sri Lankan court ordered their release, 34 Tamil Nadu fishermen, who were taken into custody by the Island Navy for trespassing into their waters, arrived at Rameswaram on Satirday night. The fishermen along with their five boats were earlier handed over to the Indian Coast Guard at the International Maritime Boundary Line by the Lankan Navy, officials said. ...
01:13 AM, Mar 17, 2013
A century-old railway bridge near Pamban coast was damaged and rail link to Rameswaram was disrupted as a barge towing a naval ship, which had ran aground, drifted and collided with it on Sunday, officials said. The accident occurred after authorities failed to pull the barge and the ship into deep waters, port officials said. ...
11:20 AM, Jan 13, 2013
New Delhi/Rameswaram (TN): India has asked its mission in Colombo to take up the issue of 16 fishermen being allegedly injured by the Sri Lankan Navy with the authorities in that county. Sixteen fishermen from Rameswaram were injured in an alleged mid-sea attack by Sri Lankan naval personnel while fishing near the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in Palk Straits. Ministry of External Affairs has asked its mission in Colombo...
04:50 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Rameswaram: State Bank of India's Tamil Nadu circle on Saturday donated a Rs 2.10 lakh electronic display board to the famous Sri Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameswaram to enable officials display all details of poojas, darshans, festivals and ticket sevas. Speaking to reporters, Sarad Sharma, Chief General Manager, SBI, Tamil Nadu, said the bank would install one more ATM machine in this island town as the present ATM is being used...
09:29 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Chennai: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's relative Thirukumuran Nadesan was on Tuesday attacked by MDMK activists with sticks and footwear when he was coming out of a house after a 'pooja' at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, an official said. "It is an unfortunate incident. It should not have happened. However, he is on his way to Colombo," Vadivel Krishnamoorthy, deputy high commissioner of Sri Lanka in southern India, told IANS....
04:27 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Rameswaram: A Sri Lankan Court on Monday extended the remand of five fishermen, arrested by Sri Lankan Navy in November last year on charges of drug smuggling, to January 16, officials in Rameswaram said. Vincent (42), Prashanth (32), Langlet (22), Emerson (36) and Augustus (33) were arrested by Sri Lankan Navy while fishing in mid-sea on November 28 and lodged in a prison in Jaffna on charges of drug smuggling....
08:11 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Rameswaram: Sixteen people, including 10 women were drowned when their boat capsized in the sea near Vazhai Theevu island in the Gulf of Mannar, off Periyapattinam coast, police said. The victims included an Australian NRI woman, who came to attend a marriage, police said. The victims, hailing from the fishermen colony of Periyapattinam village, were on a picnic between Rameswaram and Tuticorin in a boat fitted with engine when the...
04:43 PM, Dec 26, 2010
Thousands of rare species of fish and corals are at risk due to the project. ...
09:15 AM, Sep 17, 2007
After Guruvayoor Temple in Kerala, the Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameswaram in TN is in the midst of controversy. ...
10:39 AM, Jun 26, 2007
