New Delhi: Reflecting growing congruence in ties, India and Sri Lanka today held extensive talks on sticky fishermen issue, ensuring justice to Tamils and ways to deepen trade and defence engagements besides resolving to intensify
Chavakkad (Kerala): Vowing to fight for rights of fishermen, Rahul Gandhi today accused the Narendra Modi government of trying to take away their access to seas in the same way it has been "taking away
Chennai: Welcoming Sri Lanka's efforts to solve the fishing dispute in Palk Strait, DMK today urged the Centre to take steps for bilateral talks involving fishermen of the island nation and India and bring about
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the "complex" fishermen issue between India and Sri Lanka involves livelihood and humanitarian concerns and both sides will need to find a long-term solution to the festering
Rameswaram (TN): Sri Lankan Naval personnel on Thursday allegedly hurled petrol bombs at a fishing boat from Thangachimadam in Rameswaram causing damage to the boat, police said.The five occupants of the boat escaped unhurt and
Chennai: The Indian High Commission in Colombo will be filing petitions in various Sri Lanka courts from Thursday, seeking release of 81 boats of Indian fishermen even as the Tamil Nadu government has sent officials
New Delhi: As many as 87 Indian fishing vessels are in custody of Sri Lanka and the government has taken up the issue with the country's authorities, Lok Sabha was informed yesterday.Minister of State for
Rameswaram (TN): About 3,000 fishermen, who put out to sea from this coastal town today, were allegedly threatened at gun point by Sri Lankan naval personnel and nets of 15 boats damaged, P Sesuraja, president
New Delhi: The government today highlighted its “intervention” in the safe release of five Tamil Nadu fishermen who were facing death penalty in Sri Lanka, and termed it as a “great achievement”.Minister of State for
Rameswaram: The Sri Lankan navy today arrested 14 Tamil Nadu fishermen near Jaffna Peninsula, on charges of poaching in Sri Lankan waters. Fisheries Department Assistant Directors Gopinath and Sekar told PTI that the fishermen belonged
New Delhi: A day after it filed an appeal against the Sri Lankan high court verdict giving death sentence to five Indian fishermen, India on Wednesday said it wants "immediate and unconditional" release of its
Chennai: Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said “some good outcome” would soon emerge on the issue of five fishermen facing death sentence in Sri Lanka, in which India has filed an appeal.“Indian government has
Seoul: India today conveyed the “sensitivities of Indian public” to Sri Lanka over the detention of country's fishermen in international waters, days after five Indian fishermen were given death penalty in the island nation for
Colombo: India's High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Yash Sinha Tuesday met the five Indian fishermen sentenced to death at Colombo's Welikada prison and assured them that the Indian government will make all efforts to secure
Rameswaram (TN): The families of five fishermen, who were awarded capital punishment by a Sri Lankan court last month on drug-trafficking charges, today met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and sought immediate steps by India to
Chennai: Slamming the NDA government on fishermen issue, BJP ally MDMK on Tuesday said it is "playing with the lives of Indian fishermen" and its UPA-like approach towards Sri Lanka had emboldened Colombo to treat
New Delhi: India has said it has conveyed its ‘concern' to Sri Lanka over the death sentence given by a court there to five Indian fishermen and expressed confidence that the matter will be resolved
Chennnai: Strongly condemning the death penalty awarded to five Tamil Nadu fishermen by a Sri Lankan court, the AIADMK government today said it has ‘incensed' all sections of the society and sought Prime Minister Narendra
Colombo/New Delhi: Five Indian fishermen were given the death penalty by a Sri Lankan court today for alleged drug trafficking, invoking a sharp reaction from India which took up the matter with Sri Lanka and
Tuticorin(TN): Charging BJP with adopting ‘double-standards' on the fishermen issue, AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today said voting for the national party will not benefit the people of her state. Campaigning for
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