Fishermen Deaths

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India has strongly protested to Sri Lanka over the death of four Indian fishermen following a collision between their vessel and a Lankan naval craft last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.

Citing information from fishermen that four of their community "died due to an attack" by the Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Thursday condemned the island nation maritime force for such acts shattering their livelihood.

Over 600 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat are in Iran and want to return home following coronavirus outbreak in the country, activists and family members said.

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, the son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, was found dead on Wednesday morning, 36 hours after he went missing from a bridge near Mangaluru in Karnataka. A massive search operation involving multiple agencies was on since Monday evening, when Mr Siddhartha went missing.

The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.

An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on the remote North Sentinel island in Andaman and Nicobar Islands where he had gone to proselytise, local officials said on Wednesday.

The Gujarat government has written a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), urging it to initiate a process to bring back a state fisherman's body from Pakistan, where he died in a jail last month.

After unrelenting rain over the last two weeks made it a worse monsoon for Kerala in a century killing at least 200 and displacing over 10 lakh, fishermen have turned out to be saviours and unsung heroes. They were the first to respond to the crisis. Hundreds of fishermen rushed to inundated areas -- Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissu...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said the Centre has agreed to continue search operations for the missing fishermen in Cyclone Ockhi that hit the state's coast on November 29 and 30.

Search and rescue personnel today recovered the bodies of eight fishermen from the sea off the Kozhikode coast in Kerala, official sources said, taking the death toll in cyclone Ockhi to 48.

Thousands of fishermen today took out a march to the Raj Bhavan here demanding a coordinated search operation to trace missing fishermen and a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Ockhi-hit areas even as the toll in the cyclone rose to 42.

The death toll in the Ockhi cyclone in Kerala rose to 40 today with the recovery of two more bodies even as the search operations to trace the missing fishermen entered the 10th day.

A 30-year-old woman from a village in Gujarat has sought the help External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to bring back the body of her husband, who she claimed has died at a jail in Pakistan.

A team of officials from various departments today began investigating navigation records and other details of a merchant vessel, which allegedly hit an Indian fishing boat yesterday leaving two fishermen dead.

Octopuses are fascinating creatures, and always surprise people with their unique and extraordinary abilities.

India has strongly protested to Sri Lanka over the death of four Indian fishermen following a collision between their vessel and a Lankan naval craft last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.

Citing information from fishermen that four of their community "died due to an attack" by the Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Thursday condemned the island nation maritime force for such acts shattering their livelihood.

Over 600 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat are in Iran and want to return home following coronavirus outbreak in the country, activists and family members said.

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha, the son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, was found dead on Wednesday morning, 36 hours after he went missing from a bridge near Mangaluru in Karnataka. A massive search operation involving multiple agencies was on since Monday evening, when Mr Siddhartha went missing.

The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.

An American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary has been killed and buried by a tribe of hunter-gatherers on the remote North Sentinel island in Andaman and Nicobar Islands where he had gone to proselytise, local officials said on Wednesday.

The Gujarat government has written a letter to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), urging it to initiate a process to bring back a state fisherman's body from Pakistan, where he died in a jail last month.

After unrelenting rain over the last two weeks made it a worse monsoon for Kerala in a century killing at least 200 and displacing over 10 lakh, fishermen have turned out to be saviours and unsung heroes. They were the first to respond to the crisis. Hundreds of fishermen rushed to inundated areas -- Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissu...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said the Centre has agreed to continue search operations for the missing fishermen in Cyclone Ockhi that hit the state's coast on November 29 and 30.

Search and rescue personnel today recovered the bodies of eight fishermen from the sea off the Kozhikode coast in Kerala, official sources said, taking the death toll in cyclone Ockhi to 48.

Thousands of fishermen today took out a march to the Raj Bhavan here demanding a coordinated search operation to trace missing fishermen and a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Ockhi-hit areas even as the toll in the cyclone rose to 42.

The death toll in the Ockhi cyclone in Kerala rose to 40 today with the recovery of two more bodies even as the search operations to trace the missing fishermen entered the 10th day.

A 30-year-old woman from a village in Gujarat has sought the help External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to bring back the body of her husband, who she claimed has died at a jail in Pakistan.

A team of officials from various departments today began investigating navigation records and other details of a merchant vessel, which allegedly hit an Indian fishing boat yesterday leaving two fishermen dead.