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Articles for Lakshadweep Islands

Lakshadweep to Mangaluru highspeed ferry service launched for tourists
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Lakshadweep to Mangaluru highspeed ferry service launched for tourists

Hindustan Times  

Travel by searoute from the mainland to Lakshadweep is now nearer by five hours. The highspeed vessel ‘Parali’ on Thursday ferried 160 passengers from Lakshadweep Islands to the Mangaluru old port in just seven hours compared to the earlier 13 hours on an experimental basis. Lakshadweep to Mangaluru highspeed ferry service launched for tourists Speaking to PTI, the first batch …

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Maldives knows too well what being India's neighbor is like
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Maldives knows too well what being India's neighbor is like

China Daily  

Mohamed Muizzu, the newly elected president of Maldives speaks during his inauguration ceremony in Male, Maldives November 17, 2023. On the eve of Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu's visit to China in mid-January, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was vacationing in India's Lakshadweep Islands, just north of the Maldives, something that was widely interpreted as a bid to lure Indian tourists …

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Why the sands of the Maldives and Lakshadweep are white
10 months ago

Why the sands of the Maldives and Lakshadweep are white

Live Mint  

We are standing on a beach rather unique to these islands. About 20 million years ago, when India drifted 900km away from Madagascar, another volcanic event was triggered under the sea. Bubbling beneath Between 60-48 million years ago, the volcanic activity subsided. It took about 12 million years or so for marine creatures to produce enough shelly calcium carbonate that …

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Ankit Tiwari says he cancelled Maldives plans to visit Lakshadweep: ‘We came across better, unexplored island’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ankit Tiwari says he cancelled Maldives plans to visit Lakshadweep: ‘We came across better, unexplored island’

Hindustan Times  

Singer Ankit Tiwari has revealed that he was planning to visit Maldives with his family but has now dropped the idea amid the latest controversy surrounding the island nation. Ankit Tiwari's plans to visit Lakshadweep Islands Taking to X, Ankit tweeted on Tuesday, “Plans changed! I with my wife and daughter were about to visit Maldives but we came across …

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Maldives suspends 3 Ministers including Mariyam Shiuna for derogatory remarks about PM Modi
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Maldives suspends 3 Ministers including Mariyam Shiuna for derogatory remarks about PM Modi

Op India  

Amid outrage on social media over the derogatory remarks made by Mariyam Shiuna about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Mohamed Muizzu-led-Maldives government has suspended her from the position of Deputy Minister of Youth Empowerment, Information and Arts on Sunday. These opinions are personal and do not represent the views of the Government of Maldives…Moreover, the relevant authorities of the …

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Indian govt officially objects to derogatory remarks of Mariyam Shiuna about PM Modi
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Indian govt officially objects to derogatory remarks of Mariyam Shiuna about PM Modi

Op India  

On Sunday, India officially raised objections to the derogatory remarks made by a sitting Maldivian Minister Mariyam Shiuna against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These opinions are personal and do not represent the views of the Government of Maldives…Moreover, the relevant authorities of the Government will not hesitate to take action against those who make such derogatory remarks.” Government of Maldives …

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Maldives minister Mariyam Shiuna makes derogatory remarks against PM Modi over his Lakshadweep visit
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Maldives minister Mariyam Shiuna makes derogatory remarks against PM Modi over his Lakshadweep visit

Op India  

Mariyam Shiuna, Deputy Minister of Youth Empowerment, Information and Arts, recently made insulting remarks against PM Modi, referring to him as a ‘clown’ and a ‘puppet of Israel’ after he posted pictures from his visit to Lakshadweep Islands. The post was deleted after backlash on X, formerly known as Twitter, where Indian social media users slammed the Maldives government officials, …

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Modi in Lakshadweep: An essential travel guide to the breathtaking getaway
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi in Lakshadweep: An essential travel guide to the breathtaking getaway

Hindustan Times  

Literally, a ‘thousand islands’ in Sanskrit & Malayalam, Lakshadweep is a group of 36 islands located off the coast of Kerala. • Taratashi Package: Taratashi offers a package to visit Kavaratti, the administrative capital of Lakshadweep and a 4-5 day stay on the island. • Scuba Dive Package: The Dolphin Dive centre, Kavaratti offers PADI Scuba Diving Experience Programme and …

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Actor and model Aisha Sultana claims Govt of India deployed COVID-19 as bioweapon against people of Lakshadweep: Details
3 years, 6 months ago

Actor and model Aisha Sultana claims Govt of India deployed COVID-19 as bioweapon against people of Lakshadweep: Details

Op India  

With the reforms being announced for the Lakshadweep Islands, those perennially opposed to development have resorted to dangerous levels of fear-mongering to tarnish the central government and cast their attempts to catapult the islands towards development as malevolent. Sultana alleged that the central government had used COVID-19 as a bioweapon against the people of Lakshadweep Islands. Aisha Sultana from Lakshadweep …

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Opposition to reforms in Lakshadweep hints at Islamist propaganda
3 years, 6 months ago

Opposition to reforms in Lakshadweep hints at Islamist propaganda

Op India  

Over the last few weeks, Lakshadweep has been the focus of national attention after its administrator Praful K Patel floated a number of proposals aimed at ensuring the safety and well-being of residents, along with promoting the islands as a tourist destination on par with the Maldives. While some of these incorrigible fault-finders proffered spurious reasoning such as threats to …

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Lakshadweep | Between the sea and a hard place
3 years, 6 months ago

Lakshadweep | Between the sea and a hard place

The Hindu  

In December 1961, Jawaharlal Nehru despatched a fighter pilot-turned-civil servant to a tiny group of islands located southwest of mainland India in the Arabian Sea with the ‘challenging’ mission of steering it into the modern era. It’s believed that the earliest known reference to the island chain was in Mushika-Vamsa, an 11th century work in which a king is said …

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Understanding the discontent in Lakshadweep: An explainer
3 years, 6 months ago

Understanding the discontent in Lakshadweep: An explainer

Hindustan Times  

Lakshadweep — an archipelago in Arabian Sea, known for its pristine beaches and natural surroundings — is in the eye of a political storm after the Union Territory’s new administrator, Praful Khoda Patel, issued a set of orders and brought in new rules and regulations, sparking a local backlash. They say the “reforms” — critics call it draconian orders — …

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Mission Oxygen Express: Navy Sends Ships with Covid Supplies to Lakshadweep; Refills O2 Cylinders
3 years, 7 months ago

Mission Oxygen Express: Navy Sends Ships with Covid Supplies to Lakshadweep; Refills O2 Cylinders

News 18  

Indian Navy ships on Sunday in Kochi helped transfer essential medical supplies including refilling of oxygen cylinders, Rapid Antigen Detection Test kits, PPE and others to the local administration of Kavaratti, Lakshadweep under the Centre’s Oxygen Express mission amid the covid-19 surge in the country. The Headquarter Southern Naval Command at Kochi via INS Sharda helped transfer oxygen cylinders, Rapid …

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Nehru missed opportunity to take control of Coco Islands now under China
4 years, 6 months ago

Nehru missed opportunity to take control of Coco Islands now under China

Op India  

The perennial clashes along India’s borders with Pakistan and China, which has recently again taken a more aggressive turn at the Chinese side after the attack on Indian soldiers by the Chinese troops, has yet again ignited a debate regarding the cost India has been paying due to the strategic blunders that were committed during the Nehruvian era. In the …

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