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Terror suspect Tahawur Hussain Rana has shot pictures of vital installations at Kochi when he toured the Kerala town, say National Investigating Agency officials.
Coast Guard Deputy Director General K R Nautiyal alleged that the facts presented in the media were not factual
The school was run on strict Gandhian lines, with stress on students doing things themselves. Physical comforts were minimal, in keeping with the relatively backward geographical area. But it had a staff of teachers dedicated to educating their students, not just imparting them book-learning, remembers Shreekant Sambrani.
The Pakistani Marine Security Agency (PMSA) allegedly fired several rounds in air before capturing of 16 Indian fishermen and assaulting them in the Arabian sea near International Marine Boundary Line on Thursday, a security official said.
Tikait says PM Modi was supporter of MSP law when he was CM
'Expect very heavy rainfall at some places in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar along with sub-Himalayan West Bengal comprising of Alipurduar, Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, including Sikkim, parts of Arunachal Pradesh, and parts of lower Assam, Rangia downward like Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri along with parts of Meghalaya.'
In the second major anti-piracy operation off Lakshadweep in 10 days, the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard on Sunday apprehended 52 men including 28 suspected Somali pirates on board a ship after a brief gun-battle near the islands.
The Coast Guard has increased surveillance along the Gujarat coast, after a Pakistani boat blew itself off Porbandar on New Year's Eve.
As the month ended with 33 per cent deficiency, which translates to around 67 per cent of the Long Period Average, several parts of the country have been witnessing drought-like situation.
Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening the residents in some densely populated coastal areas of India and Bangladesh, besides the island nations of Maldives and Sri Lanka, a new study has said.
Modi stressed the need to enhance aviation infrastructure capacity to meet the rising demand for air travel.
China hiked its annual defence budget by 7.1 per cent.
Aircraft carriers of India, the United States, Japan and Australia are set to take part in the second phase of Exercise Malabar that is scheduled to take place from November 17 to 20 in the Indian Ocean region, the Navy said on Monday.
"The PMSA arrested 18 Indian fishermen and seized their four boats on Sunday from the Jakhau region near IMB where they were on a fishing expedition," NFF secretary for Gujarat, Manish Lodhari told PTI.
Fishing trawler 'Kuber', which was hijacked and used by Pakistani terrorists to reach Mumbai and unleash terror in November 2008, has been lying useless as nobody wants to use it, the vessel's owner said.
Says Additional Commissioner of Police Deven Bharti: "In the last one year a lot has changed in the Mumbai police. We are now mentally prepared, physically well-equipped and logistically superior than before to face any kind of terrorism."
Few people in India are aware that India and Indonesia are geographically contiguous, sharing a settled maritime boundary. The last island in the Andaman and Nicobar chain is only 80 kilometres from the first island of the Indonesian archipelago.
"All drilling operations, helicopter sorties and construction and maintenance work has been suspended due to the cyclone warning," ONGC Chairman RS Sharma said.
A cyclone alert has been sounded across north Maharashtra and south Gujarat, besides coastal areas, by the Meteorological Department, in the wake of a deep depression over the Arabian Sea.The bulletin said the deep depression (system) is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm.The Met office has advised fishermen not to venture out to sea in Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat.It warned that Mumbai and Thane districts will receive very heavy rains.
On Thursday morning, Coast Guard officials rescued as many as 30 crewmembers from the cargo vessel MV RAK, even as 3/4th of the 225 meter-long vessel had sunk into the choppy waters of the Arabian Sea. MV Rak was carrying 60,054 meteric tonne of coal. Toral Varia, brings you a blow-by-blow account of the rescue operation.
The launching ceremony for the first warship was held at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai on Sunday. Pakistan-China defence ties turn a new chapter with the launch of the first ship of Type-054 class frigate, Pakistan's state-run APP news agency reported.
On Thursday morning, Coast Guard officials rescued as many as 30 crewmembers from MV RAK, even as 3/4th of the 225 meters long vessel sunk into the choppy waters of the Arabian Sea. MV Rak was carrying 60,054 meteric tonne of coal. Toral Varia, brings you a blow-by-blow account of the rescue operation.
Catamaran service from Borivali to Nariman Point at Rs 250.
The missile hit a sinking ship with deadly accuracy and the test-firing produced desired results.
The single-seater aircraft crashed in the Arabian sea 15 miles away from the shore.
The Air India building has 22 floors overlooking the Arabian Sea. Many floors are already leased out to other companies and it represents one of the costliest commercial real estate in both the city and the country. Air India made losses of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) in 2008-09.
Normal life has thrown out of gear in the city owing to heavy overnight rains that led to severe water logging in many parts and badly disrupted road, rail and air traffic.
Intelligence inputs of a possible terror strike in states like Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat has prompted the Coast Guard to station at least three ships in the Arabian Sea despite inclement weather.
There are 60 MPs below 39 in the current Parliament of 543 elected members.
Two trawlers have sunk off Goa coast and eight others, with 39 crew members, have gone missing in the cyclone-ravaged Arabian Sea. Goa Fisheries Director S C Verenkar on Thursday said the eight trawlers were missing mid-sea, a day after an intense search operation was launched by defence forces to locate them. According to the local fishermens' society, the two trawlers plying from Mallim jetty sank due to the cyclone. One of the trawlers was carrying 29 crew members.
As many as 24 people including eight fishermen were on Wednesday rescued by the navy and coast guard from the rough Arabian Sea in Maharashtra.
The weather office in Mumbai has sounded a cyclone alert for the coastal regions of south Gujarat and north Maharashtra, where it is expected to make a landfall in the early hours of Thursday.
The IMD said that there has been an increase in the rainfall activity in Kerala and monsoon could hit the state anytime now.
All sub-regions have been receiving good rainfall except the North-east and east region of the country, where the deficiency has reached 23 per cent.
India received 41 per cent more rainfall than normal from October 1-21 with Uttarakhand alone recording more than five times its normal precipitation, IMD data showed on Thursday.
Call it the lure of the game, but when it comes to venturing near the Pakistani Maritime Boundary in the Arabian sea, the Indian fishermen risk everything.
The fishermen were allowed to cross over the border after verification of their documents.
A state-owned Indian ship with a 35-member crew on board was attacked by pirates with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the Arabian sea, barely 500 kilometres off the western coast, but repulsed the strike before any harm could be done.
The second day's play in the three-day practice game between the visiting Sri Lankan team and the Board's President's XI has been called off due to wet condition of the ground.
