The brewing political issue of Katchatheevu islet has again found itself at the centre of a raging debate as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday doubled down on his accusation of Congress and DMK colluding to "give away" this tiny piece of land -- a flashpoint in the India-Sri Lanka fishing issue -- to Colombo. Situated nearly 25 kilometres northeast …
With general elections approaching, the issue of sporadic arrests of Indian fishermen is heating up in Tamil Nadu’s political arena. “The problem has three interrelated facets: disagreements over Kachchatheevu ; poaching by Indian fishers in Sri Lankan waters; and their use of trawlers, which worsens the crisis,” writes Sohani Bose in a paper for the Observer Research Foundation. According to …
A series of brutal mid-sea attacks by assailants, suspected to be from Sri Lanka, has left fishers in Tamil Nadu seething with anger. The Vedaranyam Marine Police have since registered five cases on charges of attempted robbery, dacoity, and attempt to cause death or grievous hurt against 46 unidentified Tamil and Sinhalese-speaking Sri Lankan nationals. Stalin wrote a letter to …
A recent Sri Lankan government initiative to dump discarded buses into chosen spots in the sea, to help create artificial reefs for fish breeding has come under criticism from across the Palk Strait. Other Sri Lankan media reports said that the practice had helped breeding for deep sea fishing, which the nation’s southern Sinhala fishers have been very successful at. …
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