Seven of the eight Indian navy veterans arrive in New Delhi by a passenger flight during the early hours of February 12, 2024. Photo: Screenshot from X (formerly Twitter)/@ANI. Eight Indian navy veterans who had been in Qatari custody since August 30, 2022 were released on Sunday in Doha. Indian officials escorted seven of the … Read more
Boats anchored in Rameswaram fishing jetty in protest against the arrest of fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy. File photo | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar In a fresh case of alleged poaching charge, Sri Lankan Navy personnel arrested 19 fishermen from Rameswaram and Thangachimadam near Neduntheevu in the early hours of Thursday, According to information, … Read more
Navy personnel foiled yet another piracy attempt on a Iranian-flagged fishing vessel Omaril off Somalia, on February 2, 2024. Photo: Indian Navy In yet another instance of piracy attempts on a fishing vessel, Indian Navy, on February 2, stepped in to foil the attempts on an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel Omaril along the east coast of Somalia. … Read more
Indian Navy responded to a distress call by a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier MV Lila Norfolk in the North Arabian Sea. Photo: Special Arrangement Indian Naval forces are on January 6 investigating suspected vessels in the North Arabian Sea to track down the pirates involved in an attempt to hijack a merchant vessel with 21 crew … Read more
Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury speaks in the Lok Sabha on the first day of the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi on December 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday, December 4, demanded that the Union government “exhaust every resource” to bring back the eight former naval … Read more
Artist from Gurukul Art School paints a painting to release 8 Ex-Navy Men who were sentenced to death in Qatar. Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini A Qatari court has accepted the appeal document on the sentencing of eight former Indian naval personnel to death, sources familiar with the matter … Read more
Chinese and Southeast Asian diplomats renewed a vow to finalise a nonaggression pact for the South China Sea in three years, two regional diplomats said Thursday. The pledge came during a meeting last week in Beijing, where they expressed alarm over recent confrontations in the disputed waters. The Philippines has protested what it says are … Read more
Image for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Vipin Chandran An Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) of the Indian Navy met with an accident off the Mumbai coast on Wednesday morning. The Navy said three crew members of the chopper were safely recovered by a naval patrol craft. An inquiry to investigate the incident has been … Read more
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar. File | Photo Credit: ANI Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar on March 4, 2023 stressed that contemporary challenges in the maritime domain could be best addressed by “issue-based convergences” among like-minded countries, while highlighting the advantages of “regional solutions to regional problems”. The Chief of … Read more
Naval officers onboard the fifth Kalvari-class submarine ‘INS Vagir’ during its commissioning ceremony, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, on January 23, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The fifth Scorpène-class conventional submarine, Vagir, was delivered to the Navy was commissioned into the Indian Navy on January 23. Vagir was launched into water on November 12, 2020 … Read more