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Palk Strait

Katchatheevu continues to haunt DMK, TN House passes resolution for its retrieval

More than half a century after the tiny rocky islet Katchatheevu in the Palk Strait was ceded to Sri Lanka, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding the Union government to retrieve it so as to protect the livelihood and traditional rights of Indian fishermen and secure the release of fishers still incarcerated in the island nation.

Knee-jerk reaction

India’s immediate reaction to the Sri Lankan Navy’s shooting dead one fisherman and injuring two in the Palk Strait off…