Protection of Mangrove Forests

An escalation of fisheries related incidents in the Palk Bay area is threatening to undermine the bilateral Indo-Sri Lanka relations. It is important that this matter is given urgent attention. The current ad hoc approaches adopted by both countries ...

We initiated an exclusive seagrass awareness in Palk Bay since October 2012. Our team visits local schools and then invite the students to our centre for field trip. A total number of 2,740 students have attended our events since October 2012 until ...

There was a time say, three hundred years ago when our sleepy bay awoke to feel the weight of ocean-going vessels sailing up and down in ever increasing numbers. From Singapore upto Calcutta and down to Chennai this load kept growing with ...

Ethnic Issue, Kachchateevu Need To Be Delinked From Tamil Nadu Fishers Woes Analysis Fishing boats on Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu By N Sathiya Moorthy Independent of the Tamil Nadu Assembly's repeated resolutions and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's ...

Rameswaram fishermen ended the first day of fishing after the 45-day ban on a happy note with a good catch of prawns. With the Sri Lankan Navy keeping away, the fishermen had a trouble-free day in Palk Bay, according to an online Hindu report from ...

In a bid to avoid conflicts with the Sri Lankan Navy personnel, Rameswaram fishermen on Saturday started experimenting a new time schedule for fishing in the Palk bay. Contrary to the age-old practice of venturing into the sea early in the morning, ...

Reuters Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa accused the central government of not taking a firm stand on the attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy. She said the Indian government was not exerting pressure on Colombo to ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding the release of 49 fishermen from the state who have allegedly been captured by the Sri Lankan Navy, the NDTV reported. She has also asked the ...

A halotolerant α‐amylase having the ability of digesting the insoluble raw starches was characterized from Bacillus subtilis S818, a marine sediment isolate from Palk Bay region. The electrophoresis techniques unveiled that the α‐amylase was ...