Where is palk strait

Indika Silva said 37 Indian fishermen were arrested and five boats were seized off the island's northern coast in Point Pedro this evening. As the Sri Lankan naval personnel asked them to move away, the fishermen panicked, cut off their fishing nets themselves and fled the scene, fisheries officials here said.

For China to surface at Lankan ports brings alive some of New Delhi's worst fears of China's expanding presence in India's neighbourhood. Katchatheevu is made of sands of later period equivalent to Rameswaram which is around 3, years old as revealed in radio carbon dating. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has directed that talks between fishermen representatives of India and Sri Lanka scheduled in Chennai on January 20 will be held on January Stepping up pressure on the Centre, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had written to the Prime Minister to facilitate a dialogue between fishermen associations in the state and Sri Lanka.

Katchatheevu is in the limelight with CM Jayalalithaa moving the apex court seeking to declare as unconstitutional the agreement under which it was ceded. Security has been stepped up in this island following an alert from the IB that terrorists plan to sneak in through the Palk Strait in Sri Lanka.

If dredging has to commence again, it will be a fresh start due to the accumulated sedimentation due to the littoral drift and the seasonal changes. After conquering the English Channel and the Strait of Gibralter, physically challenged swimmer Masadur Rahman Baidya has set his eyes on crossing the Palk Strait and even plans to scale the m Chamser Kangri Peak in Ladakh this year.

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Brand Solutions. Video series featuring innovators. ET Financial Inclusion Summit. Malaria Mukt Bharat. Adjacent to the port, China has developed the most modern Colombo Port City from land reclaimed from the sea.

In Parliament out of members voted in favour of the controversial Colombo Port City project. In the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya has leased the Chinese-built Hambantota Port to China for 99 years and ruled out any Indian involvement in the development of the Mattala airport in the province.

Much against the wishes of the population, China has made strategic inroads into Jaffna Peninsula. Proliferation of Chinese economic activity and infrastructure developments in the province, ignoring the sentiments of the Tamil people, does not augur well.

Colombo has allotted land in a coastal village in the province to a Chinese company to jointly farm sea cucumber, affecting livelihood of the local fishing community. During the year civil war in Sri Lanka, particularly in the final stages of the strife in the summer of , the official was said to have played a part in the extermination of the LTTE and won plaudits from the Rajapakse brothers.

The conditions were extremely tough for swimming. The sea, pleasant in the initial stage, turned very rough. It forced me to swim against the strong wind and choppy sea. Unknown date: C. Saravanavadivu Not logged in Talk Contributions Log in. Check out our new site at openwaterswimming.

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