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UAE naval forces' commander visits Mumbai

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 07:02 PM IST The commander of the UAE naval forces, Rear Admiral Ahmed Mohammed Al Sabab Al-Tenaiji, Wednesday arrived in Mumbai on the second leg of his four-day India visit, a senior...

New materials chief of Navy takes over

New Delhi (PTI): Vice Admiral Dilip Deshpande on Tuesday took over as the new Chief of Material of the Navy from incumbent Vice Admiral B S Randhawa, who retired from service. Commissioned into the Navy in 1969, Vice Admiral...

India Keeps Open Option of Military Strike on Pakistan

INDIA SAYS it is keeping open the option of a military strike against Pakistan, which it blames for last month’s terrorist attack on its financial and film capital, Mumbai, in which over 175 people died. “Terrorism remains a...

80 Days of MV FAINA Piracy Crisis - Ecoterra Updates

I republish it integrally. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad, the chairman of the Djibouti-based opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), and his delegation went briefly to Mogadishu on 10th December. He said then...

Navy foils piracy bid in Gulf of Aden, arrests 23

NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Saturday prevented pirates from attacking a merchant vessel flying an Ethiopian flag in the Gulf of Aden and took 23 into custody. Responding to a distress call by MV Gibe, INS Mysore on...

Mumbai attack suspects being questioned, says Pakistan PM

Islamabad, Dec 10 (DPA) Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes to be responsible for the Nov 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by the...

Mumbai attack suspects being questioned, says Pakistan PM

Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes to be responsible for the Nov 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by the police.

How unsafe are our seas?

Commodore R S Vasan (retired), a former naval officer and head of Strategy and Security Studies at the Center for Asia Studies at Chennai, assesses the maritime dimensions of the Mumbai terror attacks It has now been confirmed...

We must not let the ‘soft state’ crumble

By Inder Malhotra Dec. 9: It was in the second half of the 1960s, that the eminent Swedish economist, Gunnar Myrdal, called India a "soft state", an epithet that immediately caught on. In 1972, Indira Gandhi — at the peak of...

Indian intelligence agencies turn on each other over Mumbai attacks

MUMBAI: Indian intelligence agencies have started a blame game against each other in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks as it has exposed the country’s inability to act against the terrorism. Various intelligence agencies of...

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