Kerala Chief Minister Ooommen Chandy said that his government will ensure that the guilty are brought to book. ...
02:29 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: A five-member Italian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura met Home Ministry officials in Delhi to secure the release of the two naval officers in custody for allegedly killing two fishermen. Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, who himself will visit the country on February 29, has instructed De Mistura to continue, at the political level, the work already carried out by the delegation of Italian...
01:10 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Italy is pulling out all the stops to rescue its nationals accused of murder of two Indian fishermen. ...
09:50 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Rome: Italy is sending a top envoy to India to negotiate with the government after two Italian marine security guards were arrested for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates. Italy has insisted the case be handled by its own judicial authorities since the incident allegedly occurred in international waters on an Italian-flagged ship, the Enrica Lexie. It maintains that such military personnel are part of...
06:08 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kochi: The Italian navy guards of Enrica Lexie on Tuesday moved the Kerala High Court and filed a plea to quash the FIR against the two accused in the fishermen killing case. Sources said that a senior Supreme Court lawyer is likely to represent them. Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi on Tuesday said, "The Italian Government is working at every level with the Indian Government, it's a dialogue between myself...
11:39 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Kochi: The Italian navy guards of Enrica Lexie on Tuesday moved the Kerala High Court and filed a plea to quash the FIR against the two accused in the fishermen killing case. Sources said that a senior Supreme Court lawyer is likely to represent them. Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi on Tuesday said, "The Italian Government is working at every level with the Indian Government, it's a dialogue between myself...
11:39 AM, Feb 21, 2012
The two accused were produced at the magistrate's home, with a swarm of policemen on alert as Congress, BJP and Left workers protested outside. ...
11:37 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Rome: Criticising the Kerala Police for arresting servicemen acting to protect a cargo ship from pirates. Italian foreign ministry on Monday said that Italian authorities should be allowed to deal with allegations its forces killed two Indian fishermen. The two Italian marines were part of a security detachment assigned to protect the merchant vessel Enrica Lexie from attacks in the Indian Ocean when the incident happened on Wednesday. The marines,...
09:02 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Two Indian fishermen have been shot dead by an Italian navy personnel on board a merchant ship. ...
09:54 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Taking a strong stand on two Indian fishermen being shot at and killed by the security personnel of Italian ship Enrica Lexie on Wednesday night, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday summoned Italian Ambassador Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte and registered a strong protest. Ministry of External Affairs officials said that 11 fishermen were on the boat, when the Italian ship came close to the vessel. While nine of...
01:44 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: India has military deployment plans in place for exigencies in the neighbourhood. Provided the Maldivian government requested such assistance, India could have intervened. As violence swept through Maldives and President Mohammed Nasheed resigned, Indian Navy sources confirmed that they were on standby, primed for movement if required. In fact, sources in the Prime Minister's Office told CNN-IBN that they were worried about Islamic radicalism and that a military...
11:29 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Ramanathapuram: Indian fishermen in more than 600 fishing boats returned without fishing at Rameswaram after Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly pelted stones and bottles to prevent them from crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line near Katchatheevu, fisheries department officials said on Tuesday. Stones and glass pieces were found strewn in more than 30 boats, and fishermen in more than 600 boats had to return on Monday night without fishing, they...
06:32 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Nagapattinam: The Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday released 42 fishermen arrested by it for allegedly violating the International Maritime Boundary Line, a senior Fisheries Department official said in Nagapattinam. The fishermen from Keechankuppam and Arucottuthurai hamlets in the district who ventured into the sea on Sunday, were arrested off the coast of Pulmoddai last night on charges of violating the IMBL and taken to Trincomalee. All the fishermen were released...
07:28 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: At least 42 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam were captured by the Sri Lankan Navy on Tuesday. The Sri Lankan Navy also seized 6 boats. The fishermen had allegedly strayed into the Sri Lankan waters. The Navy spokesperson Kosala Warnakulasuriya said some 42 fishermen on board six trawlers were arrested last night off the coast of Pulmoddai in the east. They are currently being taken to the...
04:56 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Moscow: A Russian aircraft carrier which is being refurbished for the Indian Navy will begin sea trials in May for the first time in two decades and is to be handed over to India by December 2012, a shipyard official said Tuesday. The purchase of the Soviet-built Admiral Gorshkov was agreed in 2004 but delivery has been delayed for a long time, taking almost eight years. Its initial completion date...
06:03 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Washington: As tensions mounted in the Persian Gulf, Iranian Navy high-speed boats taunted two US vessels earlier this month in the Strait of Hormuz. The US Department of Defence on Friday claimed that Iranian patrolling vessels in the Persian Gulf have provoked its war ships, the CNN said. CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Star, quoting anonymous officials from the Department of Defence, said there were two disturbing close encounters between Iranian...
01:32 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Washington: Tensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said on Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. The Navy revealed that two US ships in and near the Gulf were harassed by Iranian speedboats last week. Spokesmen were vague on what the United States would do about Iran's threat to block the strategic...
09:59 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Navy on Tuesday removed the Captain of the frontline warship INS Talwar from his command responsibilities after a young officer under him died during an exercise at sea off the coast of Gujarat. "There was an accident on INS Talwar on December 29 during sea swimming drill during which an under-training officer Sub Lieutenant Vipin Kumar died. After this the Commanding Officer of the warship Captain...
09:02 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Rameswaram: Mechanised boat fishermen began an indefinite strike in Rameswaram on Friday, demanding immediate release of 13 fishermen arrested by Sri Lankan naval personnel since November 28 last year. A decision in this regard was taken at an emergency meeting of fishermen's associations which urged the Centre to take steps to release all the fishermen, B Seshuraja, District Secretary of Tamil nadu Coastal Mechanized Boats Fishermen Association and Emerit, leader...
03:00 PM, Jan 06, 2012
