Court amin Ratheesh Kumar said he was unable to execute the attachment order after he was denied access to the wharf where the vessel was berthed T’puram: Proceedings to attach a Coast Guard (CG) vessel in connection with a 2007 Vizhinjam boat sinking case stalled on Monday, prompting the court-appointed amin to submit a report…
Thiruvananthapuram: Attachment proceedings will begin against the Indian Coast Guard on Monday for failing to pay court-awarded compensation to a fisherman nearly 19 years after his boat allegedly sank in a collision with one of its vessels off the Vizhinjam coast.The Neyyattinkara Sub Court ordered the attachment of the vessel on an execution petition filed…
Every year, thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles appear along Odisha‘s shoreline after spending much of their lives travelling across the Indian Ocean. Their arrival is so regular that it has long raised the same question: do they return to the same stretch of coast after disappearing for decades, scientists have been trying to answer…
The trawler Joy Maa Kali after it was spotted on Sunday Kolkata: Nine bodies were recovered on Sunday from a fishing trawler that capsized in the Bay of Bengal around a week ago. Six fishermen are still untraced. Coast Guard and state agencies are carrying out search operations.The trawler, Joy Ma Kali, sailed from Shankarpur…
Three Dubai-owned vessels, previously implicated in a fuel theft and smuggling racket, are in distress off Mumbai’s coast MUMBAI: An unmanned Nicaragua-flagged merchant tanker, MT Al Jafzia, ran aground near Manori Island on Sunday after its anchor chain snapped amid rough weather, while two other anchored vessels drifted closer to the coast, officials said.The other…
A ceremonial reception was organised to mark the vessel’s induction into operational deployment Ahmedabad: The Indian Coast Guard’s maritime surveillance capability along Gujarat’s coastline received a boost on Monday with the arrival of ICGS Achal, a newly commissioned fast patrol vessel (FPV), at its base port of Vadinar in the North-West region.A ceremonial reception was…
Kendrapada: Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Monday evacuated a critically ill Indian mariner displaying symptoms of cardiac arrest from a Liberia-flagged container vessel in Bay of Bengal, about 15 nautical miles off Paradip. The 21-year-old vessel had left Kolkata on June 1 for Colombo when a 39-year-old crew member, identified as A B Venkatesh Krishnan…
Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah, who chaired a security review meeting in Bhuj on Friday, has directed district magistrates of border districts to strictly monitor and report on demographic changes.An official statement said on Saturday that Shah also asked district administrations of border districts to chalk out SOPs to ensure identification of infiltrators and…
The Indian Coast Guard held a state-level maritime search and rescue meeting to review emergency protocols with key agencies The Indian Coast Guard held a state-level maritime search and rescue meeting to review emergency protocols with key agencies The Indian Coast Guard held a state-level maritime search and rescue meeting to review emergency protocols with…
Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS retrieved 115 packets of cocaine from the sea AHMEDABAD: The cargo vessel, MV Europe, from which Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Indian Coast Guard seized 115kg of cocaine worth Rs 1,150 crore near Mundra port, had spent nearly 196 days traversing oceans. It made 40 recorded stops at 23…
