India‚ Sri Lanka resume ferry after 28 years
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View ArticleIndia-Sri Lanka ferry hits troubled waters
Jun 21, 2011 | More India-Sri Lanka ferry hits troubled waters By Sudha Ramachandran BANGALORE - A ferry service between India and Sri Lanka suspended almost 30 years ago due to the island's armed...
View ArticleIndia, Sri Lanka resume ferry after 28 years
COLOMBO (AFP) – A passenger ferry began operations between India and Sri Lanka for the first time in 28 years on Tuesday after a previous service was disrupted by the island's ethnic war, officials...
View ArticleIndia urges Sri Lanka to release TN fishermen
New Delhi: India on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to immediately release on humanitarian grounds 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested on charges of entering the island nation's waters. External Affairs...
View ArticleIndia urges Sri Lanka to release 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet NEW DELHI: India on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to immediately release on humanitarian grounds 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested on charges of entering the island nation's waters....
View ArticleState concedes fishermen do cross IMBL
The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday conceded that fishermen do stray into the Sri Lankan waters. But it justified their action stating that the poor fishermen had no other go and they had to eke...
View ArticleAcross Palk Strait in 14 hours
Noted adventure swimmer S.P. Murleedharan of Kerala on Tuesday successfully swam across Palk Strait from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Arichamunai (Eroding Point) at Danushkodi in India. This was his...
View ArticleIPS officer swims Palk Strait in record time
Special Correspondent Achievement:Additional Director General of Police Rajiv Trivedi, who swam across the Palk Strait in record time....
View ArticleTop AP cop fastest man to swim across Palk Strait
Hyderabad, March 29: A senior Andhra Pradesh IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi has created history by becoming the fastest man to swim across the Palk Strait. Trivedi (50), Additional Director General of...
View ArticleTop AP cop becomes fastest man to swim across Palk Strait
Hyderabad, Mar 29 (PTI) Tuesday, March 29, 2011 --> A senior Andhra Pradesh IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi has created history by becoming the fastest man to swim across the Palk Strait. Trivedi (50),...
View ArticleTop AP cop is fastest man to swim across Palk Strait
A senior Andhra Pradesh IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi has created history by becoming the fastest man to swim across the Palk Strait. Trivedi (50), Additional Director General of Police from Andhra...
View ArticleBrave heart cops swim from Bheemli to Visakhapatnam
VISAKHAPATNAM: Braving powerful currents and painful jellyfish stings a team of nine swimmers successfully completed their 25-kilometre swim from Bheemunipatnam to R K Beach in the city on Saturday as...
View Article60 Indian fishermen arrested by Sri Lankan navy
RAMESWARAM, TAMIL NADU: At least 60 fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by Sri Lankan Navy personnel while fishing near Katchatheevu on...
View ArticleSea wealth depletion drives fishermen into tresspassing
RAMESWARAM: Lost in the outcry over the fishermen issue is the depleting sea wealth. As 850 trawlers based in Rameswaram fish in the narrow and ecologically sensitive Palk Strait, a good amount of...
View ArticleSecurity further beefed up in Tamil Nadu following anonymous call
Security in coastal areas of Tamil Nadu has been further beefed up following an anonymous telephone call about infiltration of terrorists, days after an intelligence alert that they could sneak in from...
View Article35 Tamil Nadu fishermen arrested by Lankan navy
RAMESWARAM: Thirty five Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested and four boats seized by Sri Lankan Navy...
View Article35 TN fishermen arrested by Lankan Navy
Thirty five Tamil Nadu fishermen were on Monday arrested and four boats seized by Sri Lankan Navy while they were...
View ArticleKerala swimmer crosses Palk Strait
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet RAMESWARAM (TN): Kerala-based long-distance adventure swimmer S P Muraleedharan today crossed the Palk Straits from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Dhanushkodi in India in 14 hours...
View ArticleSub-inspector swims his way into Limca records
By A Staff Reporter MUMBAI: Police sub-inspector Balasaheb Ghadge is the first police officer in India to have swum from Gateway of India to Dharamtar and back--a distance of 72 kilometres- -in 18...
View ArticleDredging in the Palk Straits
Launched: The fourth-leg of dredging work at Adam's Bridge and micro...
View ArticleJaya against bridge across Palk Strait
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, in a letter to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, has opposed the proposal to build a bridge between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, calling it a threat to...
View ArticleFlight from war-torn Sri Lanka ends in tragedy
RAMESHWARAM, India, May 8 (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan family who fled their war-torn homeland watched helplessly as a three-year-old boy died of hunger and dehydration on a barren island off the coast of...
View ArticleSri Lankans taking refuge in India: UN
GENEVA, Jan 20: About 50 Sri Lankans have fled to southern India aboard fishing boats because of deteriorating security on the island, the United Nations said on Friday. The refugees crossed the Palk...
View ArticleFishermen happy with new proposal
C. Jaishankar RAMANATHAPURAM: The consensus reached at the recent negotiation between the fishermen of Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu to find a solution to problems over trans-border fishing has been widely...
View ArticleU.N. reports Sri Lankan refugees landing in India
(Adds refugees landing, paragraphs 6-7) GENEVA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - About 50 Sri Lankans have fled to southern India aboard fishing boats because of deteriorating security on the island, the United...
View ArticleSeeking status to remains of nature's ravages
Special Correspondent Officials asked to prepare proposal to be sent to the ASI...
View ArticleLankan navy attacks Tamil Nadu fishermen in Palk Strait
Rameswaram: Fishermen, who went into the sea from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy near...
View ArticleThey braved sharks to cross the Strait of Gibraltar
By Somit Sen MUMBAI: Despite sharks and ships, four swimmers from Mumbai, including a sub-inspector stationed in Samata Nagar, braved strong currents in the Strait of Gibraltar (between Spain and...
View ArticleSwimmer Bula Chowdhury conquers five continents
KOLKATA: Bula Chowdhury on Friday became the first woman to conquer sea channels in five continents when she swam from Three Anchor Bay to Robben Islands near Cape Town, South Africa....
View ArticleSri Lanka refugees feared drowned
At least five people are feared drowned after a boat carrying 19 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees capsized off the Indian coast, the...
View ArticleSri Lanka should remove defence system in Palk straits: MDMK
CHENNAI: MDMK leader Vaiko on Friday demanded that the Centre should ask the Sri Lankan government to remove the underwater defence system set up across the Palk straits on the International Maritime...
View ArticleDeep-rooted trouble
CHARU GUPTA MUKUL SHARMA THE International Boundary Line (IBL), the maritime boundary between India and Sri Lanka, is caught in a conflict that has been taking newer and newer forms. Fishermen on both...
View ArticleBridge of memories reopens
RAMESWARAM: Memories of migrations and times gone by stare out of every span of this British-built bridge. It is set to open to train traffic again, this time in broad gauge tracks, linking mainland...
View ArticleLanka should remove defence system in Palk strait: MDMK
CHENNAI: MDMK leader Vaiko on Friday demanded that the Centre ask the Sri Lanka government to remove the underwater defence system set up across the Palk strait on the International Maritime Boundary...
View ArticleStraits of tension
T.S. SUBRAMANIAN in Chennai AROUND 8 p.m. on March 9, Sri Lankan naval vessels surrounded and fired upon Indian fishermen from Rameswaram who were fishing in the traditional fishing area around...
View ArticleIndian fishermen accused of destroying coral reefs in Palk Strait
PK Balachanddran Colombo, August 13 Sri Lankan fishermen allege that Indian fishermen, who come in hundreds of boats every day to poach in Sri Lankan waters, are also destroying valuable coral reefs...
View ArticleIndia-Sri Lanka fishermen reach common ground
C. Jaishankar SET FOR SAIL: Mechanised boats anchored in the shore in Rameswaram.-...
View ArticleMasadur to swim Palk Strait
KOLKATA: After conquering the English Channel and the Strait of Gibralter, physically challenged swimmer Masadur Rahman Baidya has set his eyes on crossing the Palk Strait and even plans to scale the...
View ArticleBula advances schedule to cross Palk Strait
Arindam Bandyopadhyay (PTI) Mannar (Sri Lanka), August 19 Advertisement It is the rising temperature of the sea water and not the lure of a world record that compels ace swimmer Bula Chowdhury to...
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BJP invokes Ram again Bent On Scuttling Sethusamudram Shipping Canal By Sam Rajappa Having tasted power at the Centre from 1998 to 2004 on the promise of building a grand temple to Ram in Ayodhya, the...
View ArticleTsunami to hit shrimp exports hard
AGENCIES RAMESWARAM: The damage to thousands of mechanised boats and country craft in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh could affect the fishing industry, especially export of shrimps and other varieties,...
View ArticleCops win silver for 26-km swim
Assistant Police Inspector Balasaheb Ramchandra Ghadge of the Samata Nagar police station (Kandivili East) has added yet another feather to the cap of the Mumbai Police. Ghadge on July...
View ArticleIn rough waters
T.S. SUBRAMANIAN recently in Rameswaram THE Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project (SSCP), which envisages dredging a shipping canal that will connect the Gulf of Mannar with the Bay of Bengal through the...
View ArticleIndian mother swims home from Sri Lanka
MADRAS, India (AFP) - A 34-year-old Indian mother of one has fulfilled her dream to swim seven seas after crossing the Palk Strait dividing India and Sri Lanka in a marathon 14-hour feat, officials...
View ArticleGovt committed to Palk Strait plan
TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Thursday pledged the government's commitment for an early start of a project pushed by Tamil Nadu politicians for decades and naval...
View ArticlePalk Strait was toughest
KOLKATA, Aug. 23. She swam, she conquered and now she is back. Ace swimmer Bula Chowdhury who had successfully crossed the...
View ArticlePalk Strait waters turn bloody for fishing legend
DHANUSHKODI: Neechal Kali is a legend among the fisherfolk in Dhanushkodi, a narrow strip of land which lies between the Bay of Bengal and the choppy waters of the Indian Ocean lapping the Gulf of...
View ArticleBula crosses Palk Strait
DHANUSHKODI (Tamil Nadu), Aug. 20. Indian swimmer Bula Chowdhury today became the first woman to cross the seven seas, when she swam the Palk Straits...
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