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7 Indian crew return safe from pirates' captive

After being held in captivity for more than three months by Somali pirates, seven out of 22 Indian crew members of the Panama-flagged cargo vessel 'Al Khaliq' returned safely in Mumbai on Thursday.......

Indian ship with 35 crew attacked by pirates

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......

Two Indians on board hijacked Singapore ship

Two Indians are on board the Singaporean ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, official sources said in New Delhi on Sunday. Indian High Commissioner in......

Indian sailors acquitted by South Korean court

Two Indian sailors, jailed for a year in South Korea after a crane barge collided with their crude carrier leading to a major oil spill in December 2007, were on Thursday acquitted by the Supreme......

Somali pirates release 25 Indian sailors

After nearly two months in captivity, 25 Indian sailors have been released by Somali pirates though there was no word on whether any ransom was paid to the brigands. A Directorate General of......

Covid curbs at foreign ports hit Indian seafarers hard

The trade to-and-from India so far is not affected. But if the situation continues to remain the same for the next two to three months, it could definitely hurt India trade, including essential......

More wages, jobs for Indian seafarers

Following an international agreement between the National Union of Seafarers of India and 'manning agents' who recruit them, the wages of seafarers have been hiked with effect from January 1,......

India eyes 60% share of global ship recycling biz

Currently, India recycles around 300 of the 1,000 ships which are demolished per annum globally. However, countries like Japan, Europe and the US were not sending their ships for recycling to India......

Shipping & ports: Seafarer tax anomaly set to go off

Shipping industry got some positive news in the Union Budget with removing the anomaly in computation of residential status of seafarer working in Indian ship and foreign ship. However, Shipping......

Shipping industry seeks modernisation fund

The cyclical shipping industry continue to sail on rough sea with average monthly freight rates across major asset types continue to be lower on year on year basis. Weak freight rates are largely......

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Before the British Raj, before hill-stations and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, before Gandhi and an empire on which 'the sun never set' -- there was Queen Elizabeth I of England. She ruled for......

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