30 Indian fishermen repatriated from Sri Lanka, return journey underway
Thirty Indian fishermen were repatriated from Sri Lanka on Tuesday and are currently on their way back home, the Indian High Commission in Colombo announced.
Thirty Indian fishermen were repatriated from Sri Lanka on Tuesday and are currently on their way back home, the Indian High Commission in Colombo announced.
“It is Rahul Gandhi’s policy to lie, lie aloud repeatedly. He has started a new tradition of telling lies every day. But the people have identified him as a lie-manufacturing factory,” Shah fumed while addressing a rally in Karaikal in the poll-bound Union Territory of Puducherry.
Making her first official visit after assuming office, Amarasuriya, who had her graduation in New Delhi’s Hindu College, is on a three-day state visit to India from October 16 to 18.
Shah further noted that the fishing community has suffered the most since their villages were washed away by the sea, due to which thousands of families had to migrate in search of employment.
"The Government of India attaches high priority to the issue of Indian fishermen and civilian prisoners in Pakistan’s custody and has urged the Government of Pakistan to expedite the release and repatriation of all Indian prisoners, including fishermen who remain in Pakistan’s custody," the MEA said in a statement.
Amid frosty ties, India and Pakistan on Wednesday exchanged the lists of nuclear installations and facilities and civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other’s custody. The lists were exchanged simultaneously in Delhi and Islamabad.
Forest officials have arrested 17 marine fishermen and seized their fishing trawler on Sunday from the sea water of the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary of the Kendrapara district on the charges of illegally fishing within the turtle congregation zone, an official said.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, appealed to the Bangladesh government to release 84 fishermen from the state
Families of fishermen and local people protested on Sunday at Jegathapattinam in Tamil Nadu's Pudukottai district over the Sri Lankan Navy arresting 14 fishermen and seizing their mechanised boats.
A fishing trawler, carrying 14 fishermen who had set out from Patharpratima, capsized this morning in the Bay of Bengal after encountering rough seas.
