Ghaziabad/Meerut, April 1 "We knew there could be an attack on the way, but we had to take that chance," said 27-year-old Ketan Mehta, recalling the moment he and fellow Indian sailors decided to flee a war zone in Iran after weeks of detention and uncertainty.What began as a routine voyage...
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Colombo, March 13 – The bodies of 84 identified Iranian sailors killed in the March 4 US attack on the warship IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka were repatriated to Iran, the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry said on Friday.The bodies are being transported to Iran via a special flight that...
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Thiruvananthapuram, March 5 Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Thursday that the central government's response to the US attack on an Iranian ship, which had come to India for a joint military exercise, was "condemnably" and reflected "subservience to America."The Iranian warship...
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New Delhi, March 5 The CPI(M) on Thursday described the sinking of an Iranian warship by the US when it was returning from a multilateral wargame hosted by India, as a "direct attack" on New Delhi's right to hold such exercises and questioned the Indian government's "silence" on the matter.The...
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Jaipur, March 5 Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot said on Thursday that the ongoing conflict in West Asia should end soon and urged the Indian government to uphold its tradition of diplomatic neutrality while taking a clear stance on developments affecting its strategic region.Pilot said...
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Colombo, March 4 Sri Lankan authorities said on Wednesday that they had recovered about 80 bodies of Iranian sailors who were killed after a US submarine attack that sank an Iranian naval ship off the island's southern coast.Sri Lanka had earlier said its Navy rescued 32 Iranian sailors from...
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Visakhapatnam, February 20 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has urged the international community to work together to address the increasingly complex and interconnected challenges in the maritime domain, guided by mutual respect and a spirit of cooperation.Addressing the Chiefs of Naval Staff...
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Eleven fishermen who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy and released from a Sri Lankan prison arrived in Chennai. Of the eleven fishermen, four were from Ramanathapuram, and the other seven were from the districts of Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai. They were arrested in July of last year and...
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