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The Rameswaram fishermen have appealed to the Union government to immediately intervene with the Sri Lankan government and bring home the jailed fishermen in the island nation, here on Thursday. When the fishermen had announced indefinite boycott of their work since February 17 condemning the arrests by Sri Lankan Navy personnel on ‘false’ charges of poaching, the new move of …

St. Andrew’s Day 2023: How did a fisherman become the patron saint of Scotland?

Poster of Across the Furious Sea. Across the Furious Sea, a crime thriller by award-winning director Cao Baoping, has topped the single-day box office charts for three consecutive days since opening on Nov 25. Released in multiple formats, including IMAX, it is an adaptation of the novella of the same name by Lao Huang, which was inspired by the real-life …

A stormy period On a sunny Sunday morning, Deepan and Menaka are at home. “Our parents agreed to our wedding almost immediately, but I wanted to support my family financially until my younger sister got educated,” Menaka, who worked in the sales department of a textiles firm, says firmly. We had to take out smaller loans to settle our wedding …

A 60-year-old fisherman on Wednesday was shot in the ear in Kerala's port city of Kochi when he was coming to shore on his boat near a gunnery training school run by the Southern Naval Command. He said as the incident occurred near the INS Dronacharya, a naval base gunnery school, it must be ascertained whether any fire exercise was …

Octopus boom in Cornwall as fisherman catches 150 in one day

MANAUS, Brazil — A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said after a grim 10-day search for the missing pair. “We would have no way of getting to that spot quickly without the confession,” Torres said …

LOADING ERROR LOADING A Florida fisherman’s efforts came to an abrupt end when he almost became the catch of the day. Footage posted on YouTube shows 22-year-old Tommy Lee fishing for tarpon in the Everglades on Saturday when an alligator emerges from the water. “First of all, you need to watch every body of water, your bathtub, your swimming pool, …

A recent viral video doing rounds on social media shows that things might take an adventurous turn at times while fishing. Video posted by Rod & Rifle Tackle World Katherine on Facebook shows a man enjoying a regular day at fishing when his fishing rod gets hooked on to something. According to Katherine Times, Mr de With, who manages Rod …