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India navy hands over Dornier to Mauritius coast guard

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New Delhi: India has handed over a passenger variant of the Dornier maritime aircraft to the Mauritius coast guard, in a naval diplomacy effort at building capabilities of friendly nations in the Indian Ocean Region. An official ceremony was conducted at the Maritime Air Squadron of National Coast […]

India coast guard averts major disaster off Sri Lanka, fights fire on Very Large Crude Carrier

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New Delhi: An alert and sharply intuitive operation by India’s coast guard has averted a major shipping and environment disaster off Sri Lanka this month that had threatened ecological degradation along the South Asian giant’s southern coast, the island nation’s eastern coast and the Maldivian atolls. The Indian […]