However, the government would not follow the policy of "hot pursuit" against pirates in the present case, as it had wider implications, Defence Minister A K Antony said after the Defence Accounts Day function in New Delhi.
Aseem Chhabra lists 10 of his favourite films that played in various sections at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.
British athlete Mo Farah, who is a big Arsenal fan, has joined football player Jack Wilshere in opposing the practice of sportsmen switching nationality to compete under a flag of convenience. Wilshere had provoked a fierce debate by saying the only people who should play for England are English people.
The ship carrying 4,200 tonnes of sugar was travelling between Mumbai and Mogadishu. "The hijackers of MV Victoria have offloaded the cargo from the vessel. Now negotiations are on for the safe release of the crew that includes 10 Indians," a top DG Shipping official told PTI.
She and her husband Jared Kushner were dressed to the nines, where she was pictured wearing a $5,000 Carolina Herrera-designed metallic silver gown alongside before the pair attended a swanky dinner in Washington.
Travel ban was rolled out across the country as part of its effort to prevent people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from e
The US Olympic Committee said on Monday they were told by the US government that President Donald Trump's ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority countries should not impact athletes travelling to the United States for international events.
A close lieutenant of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to life in prison for multiple terrorism offences relating to his participation in the terror group's conspiracy to kill Americans overseas.
A Hong Kong ship bound for Mumbai with 18 Indian crew members on board has been hijacked and taken to Somalia, officials in the Directorate General of Shipping said in Mumbai on Tuesday night.'Stolt Valor', which bears a Hong Kong flag and carries over 23,000 tonnes of oil products, is reported to have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on Monday at around 1.15 pm, they said.
Striking a major blow to Donald Trump, a federal judge in Seattle brought his administration's executive order on immigration to a halt nationwide Friday, issuing a temporary restraining order in US District Court until further hearings can be held.
Sri Lanka is listed as the third most dangerous country for journalists, ahead of Pakistan in fourth place. Iraq leads the list with 50 journalists killed in the war-ravaged country in 2007. Somalia is listed in second place.
United States foreign policy experts have rated Pakistan just behind Somalia as the country most likely to become the next stronghold of Al Qaeda.
Sixteen Indian sailors, who have been living on a ship in Ajman port in Dubai for the past five months without salaries, can now hope to go back home.
A locust warning issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Organisation has asked India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to safeguard their crops.
The US District Judge Derrick Watson blocked the core provision of the revised executive order two weeks ago arguing that it violated Establishment Clause of the Constitution by disfavouring Muslims.
The 18 new members were elected by absolute majority through a secret ballot.
'Because there's a very effective Coast Guard,' says maritime piracy expert Jayant Abhyankar.
The US authorities are checking people's social media accounts for their political views before allowing them into the country after the recent travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, a media report said.
Six sailors, including two Indians, died while 13 others were rescued after an UAE company owned cargo vessel sank off the Yemeni island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean due to bad weather.
Survivors still live in sub-standard conditions with women increasingly vulnerable to physical and sexual violence.
The ninth edition of the Global Peace Index, which ranks the nations of the world according to their level of peacefulness, has ranked Syria as the most dangerous country in the world.
"Today we've voted for love, for equality. It's time for more marriages, more love, more respect. This belongs to us all. This is Australia," said Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister after the announcement.
Al-Qaeda's Twitter account has been suspended, five days after it appeared on the social networking site, attracting over 1,500 followers.
The founder of the dreaded terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed undergoes regular dialysis at an army hospital in Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
The new executive order, which will come into force on March 16, covers people from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen.
The Supreme Court is currently not in session, but can take emergency cases.
Swarms of immature pink locusts and adult yellow locusts are currrently active. Not only are fresh locusts swarms expected to arrive in the coming weeks, but even those already present in India have mated and are breeding new offspring.
According to a new report from the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an estimated 2,275 individuals drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2018.
As part of a massive rescue operation, three C-17 Globemaster aircraft of Indian Air Force have clocked nearly 150 flying hours in the last few days bringing back over 1,300 Indians from Djibouti after their evacuation from strife-torn Yemen.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at airports across the US to protest the ban announced by President Donald Trump on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, extending solidarity to those affected as chaos and fear gripped individuals trying to enter the country.
'Not one single country, anywhere in the world, is corruption-free,' the report said.
"INS Godavari is likely to be used as a target to practice missile firing," said a naval official.
The country's first indigenously designed and built warship Godavari will be decommissioned on Wednesday in Mumbai, thirty-two years after it was commissioned into the Indian Navy.
The crew is not traceable, sources said.
One of the two gunmen, who were shot dead by police after they opened fire outside an event centre hosting a controversial cartoon contest in the US state of Texas, was linked to the dreaded Islamic State terror outfit.
India, which was listed 78th last year, has improved its ranking, figuring at 75th position with a visa-free score of 51
A major fire broke out on Thursday in a five-storeyed commercial-cum-residential building in Mumbai but there were no casualties.
The political fight erupted a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government has evacuated the families from Libya and that the Centre was committed to work for welfare of Indians living abroad. Kerala goes to polls on May 16.
This is in addition to 43 countries which received approval last year.
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