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At 84, Lalitha Gir finds it difficult to recollect what she did the previous day. But when we ask her how long shes been reading Deccan Chronicle, decades of memories come flooding. I have read DC all my life, some 40 years and more, says Lalitha, who worked ...

Bad weather on the high seas and the transporters' strike were blamed for the sudden rise, albeit marginal for now, in fish prices at the South Goa wholesale market in Margao on Thursday. Sources said that while a kilo of kingfish was selling between 500 and ...

Conditions are now favourable for advance of South-West monsoon over Andaman Sea and adjoining seas during the next two to three days. Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the countrys farthest outpost...

Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.

We have seen greater Chinese activism in the South and East China Seas, but not across the Sino-Indian border. If the Chinese troops stay put in the Burthe area and construct defensive structures, that will be an indicator of their deciding to follow a similar policy of activism across the Sino-Indian border, says B Raman. The continuing (since April 15) Chinese troop intrusion (about 20 troops) 10 kilometres into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi area of Eastern Ladakh in the ...

India assured Japan that it "stands" by it to ensure freedom of navigation on the high seas, an assurance that comes in the backdrop of increasing conflicts in the Pacific involving China. "There can be little doubt that countries like India and Japan must cooperate in ensuring the security of the global commons including freedom of navigation on the high seas that is critical to both our countries which import large amounts of oil and gas. "Let me say clearly today that India stands with ...

Kochi: Eight fishermen who had put out to sea from here and stranded when their fishing craft which was in the high seas developed snag, hit an anchored dredger and sank early today were rescued, official sources said. The fishermen went to the sea in the ...

Sri Lanka's Met office today warned of widespread rains throughout the island and rough seas on the east coast under the influence of cyclone Mahasen that is located 650 kms to the east of Trincomalee port. The weathermen in Sri Lanka however feel that the ...

(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Over the course of 24 gruelling days this month, 6,500 military personnel from 41 nations and more than 30 surface ships are undertaking a series of planned tasks in the Northern Arabian Gulf and Sea of Oman, as the ...