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  Iran to release detained Indian ship

  World | September 05, 2013 23:02 IST

  Tehran/New Delhi: Detained Indian oil tanker MT Desh Shanti, carrying 140,000 tonnes of Basrah crude from Iraq to India, is to be released by Iran, informed sources said on Thursday."The Indian tanker is to be

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  Iran detains Indian ship carrying oil from Iraq

  World | August 15, 2013 20:03 IST

  New Delhi: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have detained an Indian ship carrying oil from Iraq in the Persian Gulf, source said. The ship, MT Desh Shanti, was on its way to India from Iraq when

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  China detains activist lawyer Xu Zhiyong

  World | July 17, 2013 10:59 IST

  Beijing, Jul 17: Chinese lawyer Xu Zhiyong has been detained after calling for the release of activists and campaigning against government abuses, a rights group and a fellow lawyer said on Wednesday.Police also took computers

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  Sri Lankan navy detains Indian fishermen with 10 boats

  India | July 07, 2013 6:45 IST

  Rameswaram, July 7: Sri Lankan naval personnel on Saturday night detained an unspecified number of fishermen from here along with their ten boats near the Lankan territory.The fishermen were detained when they were fishing near

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  Iranian authorities detain 29 fishermen from TN, Kerala

  India | October 13, 2012 21:57 IST

  Kanyakumari, Oct 13: Twenty-nine fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Kerala were today detained by Iranian authorities for allegedly violating maritime boundary while fishing near Qatar.“Due to the rough weather, they crossed the Qatar border and

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  Chile Police Detain Kandahar Hijacking Suspect

  India | April 11, 2011 21:38 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 11: A person suspected to be a key conspirator in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane(IC-814) has been detained in Chile and the CBI will be despatching a team to the South