India's only mud volcano erupts after 20 years in AndamansIndia's only mud volcano erupted in Baratang, Andaman and Nicobar Islands on October 2. A loud sound accompanied the eruption. An earth mou...
03 Oct, 2025, 01.34 PM IST
Air India flight from Phuket to Delhi makes emergency landing after bomb threatAn Air India flight AI 379, en route from Phuket to Delhi, executed an emergency landing in Phuket after a bomb threat was received shortly...
13 Jun, 2025, 12.04 PM IST
Who is the US YouTuber arrested for entering forbidden Indian island? 'Thrillseeker' Mykhailo Polyakov once posed with TalibansYouTuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov is in legal trouble after illegally landing on North Sentinel Island, home to the isolated Sentinele...
08 Apr, 2025, 10.48 AM IST
India questions Musk's Starlink for more clues in $4.2 billion drug smuggling caseIndian police have demanded information from Starlink about the purchaser of a satellite internet device found on a smuggler's boat carryin...
09 Dec, 2024, 04.23 PM IST
Elon Musk's Starlink to be quizzed by Indian police on device used in huge haul of smuggled drugsIndian police will investigate drug smugglers who used Starlink's satellite internet device to navigate and bring meth worth $4.25 billion ...
03 Dec, 2024, 02.30 PM IST
Unlike eastern, northern borders where threat is defined, in Andamans its invisible: CINCANAir Marshal Saju Balakrishnan, CINCAN, highlighted the unique security challenges in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where threats are les...
27 Nov, 2024, 05.56 PM IST
UN warns that two boats adrift on Andaman Sea with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue"There are about 400 children, women and men looking death in the eye if there are no moves to save these desperate souls," he told The Ass...
04 Dec, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
Defence Ministry seals Rs 583 crore deal with Goa Shipyard to procure 2 pollution control shipsThe ships are being procured to significantly augment the capability of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) to respond to incidents of oil spills ...
22 Jun, 2021, 05.28 PM IST
Navy alert on China’s designs on AndamansThe archipelago, nearly 700 nautical miles from the mainland, remains at risk from People’s Liberation Army Navy. A Navy official said that...
20 Jun, 2020, 10.45 PM IST
Alarm over Chinese research ships in Indian Ocean RegionThe presence of research vessels have raised security concerns as experts believe that the Chinese could be surveying the Indian Ocean to i...
30 Jan, 2020, 09.00 AM IST
Chinese Navy in Indian Ocean: There have been instances when we had to tell them to go back, says Indian Navy Chief"We have placed our ships in mission-based deployments so that we get an idea what are the activities, not only of China but of all other c...
17 Jan, 2020, 12.32 PM IST
Indian Navy forces Chinese naval ship to retreat from AndamanThe ship entered the area without Indian Navy's prior permission, they said. "Our stand has been that if you do anything in our region, you...
04 Dec, 2019, 10.25 AM IST
All 2,376 stranded tourists evacuated from Andaman IslandsLocated about 40 km from here, Havelock and Neil are the most popular tourist attractions in the Andamans where tourists were stranded sinc...
09 Dec, 2016, 11.14 PM IST
Monsoon moves towards Bay of Bengal; heat wave to support good rainIMD said the southwest monsoon is poised to drench the Nicobar islands by early next week and move on to the Andamans in another few days.
14 May, 2016, 01.07 AM IST
Heavy rain pound Tamil Nadu: Toll touches 55According to an official release today, the toll stood at 55, as seven more persons lost their lives in rain-related incidents in various p...
13 Nov, 2015, 12.56 PM IST
21 dead as boat with tourists capsizes in AndamanAt least 21 persons died today when the tourist boat carrying them capsized in the Bay of Bengal near here in the Andaman and Nicobar islan...
26 Jan, 2014, 10.18 PM IST
- Port authorities asked to check mishaps
The Shipping Ministry asks port authorities to gear up their emergency response machinery to check mishaps.
26 Jun, 2007, 07.40 PM IST