Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the families of the nine fishermen who were found dead after a fishing trawler, which had gone missing earlier this month, was recovered from the Bay of Bengal near the Sundarbans in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, officials said.”The loss of lives due to the capsizing of a boat in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal is …
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Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Nine fishermen were found dead after a fishing trawler that had gone missing earlier this month was recovered from the Bay of Bengal near the Sundarbans in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, officials said on Monday.Six other fishermen who were onboard the vessel remain untraced. According to officials, personnel from the police, the Forest Department and the Indian Coast Guard located the sunken trawler in the Raktachar area near the Chulkathi forest on Sunday. Th…