Chennai, Nov 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government and fishermen's associations were Sunday able to establish contact with six fishing boats out of the 16 that were untraceable after the Phyan cyclone ...

Mumbai, Nov 12 (IANS) Seven fishermen were killed and 17 fishing boats with some 100 men were still missing in the Arabian Sea as Cyclone Phyan left a trail of destruction in ...

NATIONAL India's west coast on alert for Cyclone Phyan - Third Lead moved at 1856 Some fishing boats found in cyclone-hit sea, 60 still missing -- Second Lead moved at 1746 Delhi Metro ...

NATIONAL India's west coast on alert for Cyclone Phyan - Second Lead moved at 1602, Third Lead to move by 1900 80 fishing boats, 800 men missing in cyclone-hit Arabian Sea - Lead moved ...

Panaji/Ahmedabad, Nov 11 (IANS) Twenty-four of the 34 Goa-based fishing trawlers, which went missing as the Arabian Sea turned rough under the influence of Cyclone Phyan, have been located, officials said Wednesday. ...

Ahmedabad/Panaji, Nov 11 (IANS) About 80 fishing trawlers, with an average of 10 men in each, are missing in cyclone-hit Arabian Sea, organisations of fishermen along India's west coast said Wednesday. As Cyclone ...

Gandhinagar, Nov 9 (IANS) Three Pakistani fishing boats with 20 fishermen were seized by the Coast Guard off the Kutch-Saurashtra coast, officials said Monday. The three Pakistani boats were intercepted by a ...

Hanoi, Nov 6 (DPA) The toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has risen to 109, the country's Steering Committee for Storm and Flood Control reported Friday. The authority said 16 people ...

Islamabad, Nov. 6 (ANI): Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency on Friday apprehended 13 Indian fishermen for allegedly trawling in Pakistani territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. "Our officials seized three Indian fishing boats, ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct 19 (IANS) A public suit was filed in the Orissa High Court to check the illegal fishing boats in coastal areas which the petitioner maintained could "jeopardize the security of ...

Hanoi, Sep 30 (DPA) At least 38 people have been killed and 10 are missing after typhoon Ketsana struck central Vietnam, national storm and flood authorities said Wednesday. The typhoon brought winds of ...

Hanoi, Sep 28 (DPA) Four days of floods killed at least 17 people and left six missing in central Vietnam, the country's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday. ...

Ahmedabad, Sep. 11 (ANI): Fishermen in Gujarat's Veraval region have now equipped their trawlers with Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Now, it would be easy to locate these trawlers on high seas and also ...

Nagercoil (TN), Sep. 8 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday had an hour-long interaction with the fishermen community of Tamil Nadu, and he promised to take up their woes ...

Zamboanga City (Philippines), Sep 6 (DPA) Five people drowned and 63 were missing Sunday when a passenger ferry with 968 people aboard sank in the southern Philippines, rescue officials said. The Superferry 9 ...

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Rio de Janeiro, Aug 25 (EFE) The Brazilian navy is looking for seven fishermen who disappeared when a fishing boat capsized in the Atlantic off the southeastern state of Espiritu Santo. Of the ...

Porbander, Aug 22 (ANI): MV Kuber, the fishing trawler that the Indian Government says militants of the Mumbai attacks used to reach the metropolis, has been repaired and is all set to ...

Taipei, Aug 7 (DPA) Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan Friday, leaving at least two people dead, four missing and four foreign ships grounded off its coast. A woman walking in Keelung, northern Taiwan, was ...

Beijing, Aug 7 (Xinhua) As typhoon Morakot gains momentum and churns toward China's mainland, provinces in coastal regions are busy bracing for its impact. The first major typhoon of the season was located ...

Panaji, Aug 3 (IANS) Fishing trawlers dotting the seas off Mormugao could lead to the port there losing a key global security code, the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) has warned. In a string ...

Seoul, July 30 (DPA) Seoul Thursday demanded the return of one of its fishing boats which was seized by North Korea after it strayed across the inter-Korean sea border, the South Korean ...

Gandhinagar, July 24 (IANS) More than 3,000 families from villages in Gujarat's flood-ravaged Junagadh, Porbander and Jamnagar districts have been shifted to safer places by Army rescue teams since Thursday morning, officials ...

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) All fishing and non-fishing boats plying in Indian waters will be registered under a uniform system in a bid to secure the country's maritime borders and strengthen ...

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) About 120,000 residents of 3,331 coastal villages will be given identity cards in the first phase of a scheme that will eventually cover the entire country, ...

Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) India's first open sea bridge, a 5.6-km cable-held engineering marvel expected to cut travel time by 80 percent for this city's harried commuters, was inaugurated Tuesday, heralding ...

Mumbai, June 28 (IANS) The Rs.1,600 crore (Rs.16 billion), 5.6-km Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL), India's first open 8-lane, cable-supported sea bridge that will reduce traffic congestion in this metro, will be ...

Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) The Rs.1,600-crore (Rs.16 billion), 5.6 km Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL), which will connect the suburban Bandra with Worli on the south here, is ready and will be ...

Dhaka, May 25 (ANI): Residents in Bangladesh said Monday that they were bracing themselves to meet the damage likely to be caused by "Cyclone Aila"as it crosses the Bay of Bengal. The national ...

Washington, May 25 (ANI): One of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days suggests that about the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales, about 30 ...