Visakhapatnam, Feb 2 (IANS) Nine fishermen from Andhra Pradesh returned to Visakhapatnam on Monday after being released from a Bangladesh jail.They were detained by the Bangladesh Navy in October last year for inadvertently crossing maritime boundaries while fishing in the Bay of Bengal.The Indian Coast Guard escorted them to the Visakhapatnam coast and handed them over to the marine police.It was a tearful reunion of the fishermen with their families after four months. The fishermen and their f…
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Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard on Monday arrested 24 Bangladeshi fishermen for allegedly crossing the international marine border in the Bay of Bengal in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal and entering Indian waters, and handed them over to the coastal police wing of the West Bengal Police.Early on Monday morning, a patrolling vessel of the Indian Coast Guard spotted a Bangladeshi fishing trawler with 24 fishermen within Indian waters. The Coast Guard vessel chased the traw…
Amaravati, Jan 2 (IANS) YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) MP Maddila Gurumoorthy, on Friday, urged the Union government to ensure the safe release of nine fishermen who were detained by the Bangladesh Coast Guard. In a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the MP said that nine fishermen from Andhra Pradesh were apprehended by the Bangladesh Coast Guard in the mid sea of Bay of Bengal on October 21, 2025 while they were operating a mechanised fishing vessel.The fishermen hail from Vizianaga…