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  Lankan Navy arrests 34 TN fishermen

  India | October 27, 2015 10:16 IST

  Rameswaram: Thirty-four Tamil Nadu fishermen were today arrested in separate batches by Sri Lankan Naval personnel near Katchatheevu in the Palk Straits and close to the Lankan coast respectively, a fisheries department official said.The department's

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  Sri Lanka Navy arrests 19 TN fishermen

  India | October 10, 2015 14:29 IST

  Nagapattinam (TN): Nineteen fishermen from the district were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on charges of violating the International Maritime Boundary Line this morning, Fisheries Department officials said here.Their two boats were also seized

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  Fishermen threatened, sent back by Sri Lankan naval personnel

  India | December 04, 2014 14:08 IST

  Rameswaram (TN): About 3,000 fishermen, who put out to sea from this coastal town today, were allegedly threatened at gun point by Sri Lankan naval personnel and nets of 15 boats damaged, P Sesuraja, president

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  Sri Lanka Navy arrests 4 Tamil fishermen

  India | November 29, 2014 7:10 IST

  Madurai: Four Indian fishermen from a village in Nagapattinam district were today arrested by Sri Lankan Navy after they strayed into Lankan waters, officials said.Fisheries department officials said that the fishermen from Pushpavanam village, who

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  5 Indian fishermen set free by Lanka arrive in Chennai

  India | November 21, 2014 6:42 IST

  Chennai: Five fishermen from Tamil Nadu, who were sentenced to death in Sri Lanka for alleged drug trafficking but set free after President Mahinda Rajapaksa pardoned them, arrived here on Thursday.The fishermen from Rameswaram, who

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  Jayalalithaa seeks Narendra Modi's intervention into fishermen issue

  India | September 03, 2014 7:02 IST

  Chennai: Expressing concern over the ‘alarmingly' increasing frequencies of arrests of Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Centre's immediate intervention to resolve

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  No Indian fisherman in Lankan jails now

  India | August 18, 2014 9:07 IST

  New Delhi: For the first time this year no Indian fisherman is in Sri Lankan jail, following the release of 94 fishermen on Saturday by the island nation.Officials said hundreds of Indian fishermen had been

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  Seventeen Tamil fishermen repatriated by Sri Lanka

  India | March 07, 2014 23:08 IST

  Chennai: Seventeen Tamil Nadu fishermen were today repatriated from Sri Lanka, a day after Chief Minister Jayalalithaa slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the continued detention of Indian fishermen by Lankan Navy.The fishermen were handed