Somali pirates shifting location towards India: Manohar ParrikarSomali pirates are "shifting their location" towards India, but the country is watchful to deal with such threats, Defence Minister Manohar...
22 Mar, 2015, 06.27 PM IST
- Indian among 11 ship crew members freed by Somali pirates
According to the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, the 11 survivors of the MV Albedo crew were released to officials from the UN Office for...
10 Jun, 2014, 12.29 PM IST
Families of sailors held hostage by Somali pirates protestThe families demanded immediate release of the sailors, who have been held captive by Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden, on UAE-owned MT ...
27 Nov, 2012, 02.31 PM IST
- Somali pirates hold oil tanker with 17 Indian crew members
The families of 17 Indians, who were among a crew of 22 on a Nigeria-bound oil tanker, have just been told that the ship was captured by So...
09 Apr, 2012, 09.47 AM IST
- Somali pirates' Pakistan link confirmed
Though Indian security agencies had been hinting at a Pakistani link to Somali pirates for long, material evidence to support this assertio...
29 Aug, 2011, 10.18 AM IST
- Somali pirates hijack UAE vessel with 5 Indians
A UAE-based vessel carrying 16 members on board including five Indians were hijacked by Somali pirates off an Island which forms part of Ye...
21 Jul, 2011, 08.40 PM IST
- Somalia jails 6 for flying in ransom money to pay pirates
The International Maritime Bureau said pirates took a record 1,181 hostages and seized 53 ships in 2010, all but four by Somali pirates.
27 Jun, 2011, 05.33 AM IST
- Somali pirate hostage crisis: Government says saving lives of Indians prime concern
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said That the guiding concern for the government is to protect the lives of every Indian held...
18 Apr, 2011, 03.43 PM IST
- Somali pirates keeping 7 Indian hostages despite taking ransom
Mumbai-based OMCI Ship Management, clarified that all the crew members of the ill-fated vessel were Indians and 7 of them were still being ...
16 Apr, 2011, 06.54 PM IST
- 16 pirates, crew of hijacked ship brought to Mumbai
Sixteen Somali pirates caught by Indian Navy after it foiled an attack on a foreign merchant vessel were today brought to Mumbai, Navy sour...
29 Mar, 2011, 03.56 PM IST
- Krishna speaks to Egyptian Ambassador on Indian hostage issue
S M Krishna has met Egyptian Ambassador Khaled el Bakly and discussed the recent incident of Somali pirates hijacking a ship which had amon...
07 Mar, 2011, 12.54 PM IST
- Govt trying to secure release of Indians on board MV Suez
Government today said it was making all efforts to seek the release of six Indian hostages on board an Egyptian cargo ship hijacked by Soma...
02 Mar, 2011, 12.21 PM IST
- Somali pirates release South Korean tanker
Somali pirates have freed a hijacked South Korean-operated supertanker and its 24 crew, officials said today amid news reports that a recor...
07 Nov, 2010, 02.40 PM IST
- Somali pirates hijack ship with 24 Indians on board
At least 24 Indian sailors were taken hostage by Somali pirates who hijacked a bulk carrier near Seychelles.
22 Oct, 2009, 09.06 PM IST
- Somali pirates open fire on US navy helicopter
Somali pirates aboard a captured vessel have opened fire on a US navy helicopter on the high seas as it carried out a surveillance mission ...
27 Aug, 2009, 02.24 PM IST
- The year Somali pirates challenged the world
Over the past year, Somali pirates have hijacked anything from luxury yachts to oil tankers, defying foreign navies and holding the world t...
15 Dec, 2008, 12.26 PM IST
- Somali pirates hijack two Yemeni ships
Somali pirates hijacked two Yemeni fishing ships and took 22 fishermen hostage in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, Yemen's interior ministry ...
11 Dec, 2008, 10.10 AM IST