In response to Indonesia's appeal for international aid, the Prime Minister offered to Widodo all possible assistance from India as a maritime neighbour and as a friend of Indonesia.
The Chetak CH422 crashed while carrying out dry winching dual sortie. The chopper has suffered damage to main and tail rotors according to the initial probe.
The Navy requires 12 minesweeper ships, but at present has only two, Rear Admiral Rajaram Swaminathan, Assistant Chief of Material, Indian Navy, said.
Watch how Indian Navy rescued Abhilash Tomy from the jaws of death.
The naval sailor-cum-sportsperson participating in the GGR-2018, was caught in a huge storm on Friday, 5,020 km from Cape Comorin, India and 3,500 km from Perth, Australia, in the Indian Ocean.
Commander and Golden Globe Race (GGR) skipper Abhilash Tomy has been rescued.He is in conscious state and has been shifted to the French Fishing Vessel Osiris.
Tomy, representing India in the Golden Globe Race 2018 (GGR) on an indigenously built sailing vessel 'Thuriya', was dismasted and suffered a back injury on Friday.
Officer Tomy was taking part in the race on an indigenously built 'Thuriya' and suffered a back injury on Friday after a massive wave wrecked the boat.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), which is considered to be the ministry’s highest decision-making body on procurement.
Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have claimed 210 lives in Kerala since August 8 and displaced over 7.14 lakh people from their homes. Vice Admiral Luthra said the rescue operations in Kerala started about two weeks ago and were gradually stepped up as the rains intensified.
Thousands of people, including women, children and college students are tediously working at various centres across the state free of cost to gather essential materials, including food, medicines, cloths to send to relief camps.
Nikesh Rastogi, 43, is the captain of the offshore supply vessel Malaviya Twenty which has been held at a port in Great Yarmouth, in the East Anglia region of England, since July 2016 after its Indian owners declared bankruptcy.
The boat had 14 fishermen aboard out of which 3 died when hit by the merchantship, the ship fled the scene after incident. Southern Naval Command searching for 9 missing individuals.
Prior to RIMPAC 2018, INS Sahyadri also participated in the 22nd edition of MALABAR 18 exercise in the south-western Pacific region between June 7 and 16.
The Navy evacuated the Indians as part of operation 'NISTAR' carried out off the coast of Socotra early on Sunday and embarked them at Indian Naval ship INS Sunayna to bring them back to India, a Navy spokesperson said.
A navy spokesperson said the Navy's focus over the past year had been on "combat efficiency and materiel readiness and upkeep of its large fleet of 131 ships and submarines".
The Indian Navy also tweeted a map of Indian Ocean Region and showed the presence of Indian warships in the region.
The aircraft was on a routine surveillance mission when it lost datalink communication with the Ground Station.
"There has been no injury to anyone. Preliminary inputs indicate failure of the RPA engine," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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