Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) are being equipped with indigenous state-of-the-art ships and weapons to protect the maritime borders of the country.
A total of 24 trainee IPS officers, including 10 women officers, from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, visited Eastern Naval Command here on Saturday.
Since January this year, 29 countries have reported cholera cases, including Haiti, Malawi and Syria which are facing large outbreaks. In comparison, in the previous 5 years, fewer than 20 countries on average reported outbreaks. The global trend is moving towards more numerous, more widespread and more severe outbreaks, due to floods, droughts, conflict, population movements and other factors that limit access to clean water and raise the risk of cholera outbreaks.
Geneva [Switzerland], October 19 (ANI): A strained global supply of cholera vaccines has prompted the international body which distributes oral cholera vaccines during outbreaks, to temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen in cholera outbreak response campaigns, using instead a single-dose approach.
Kanniyakumari (Tamil Nadu) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Sunday said that it had apprehended a fishing boat with five Sri Lankans off the Kanniyakumari coast in Tamil Nadu.
Kutch (Gujarat) [India], October 8 (ANI): A Pakistan-based "big drug lord" had sent the consignment of heroin worth Rs 350 crore on a ship, which Indian authorities apprehended near the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) before the transaction could take place in the Arabian Sea.
Karachi [Pakistan], October 7 (ANI): Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) ship rescued six Indian fishermen who were drowning near the international maritime boundary line between India and Pakistan and were handed over to the Indian Coastal Gaurd ship operating in the area, PMSA said.
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 24 (ANI): Pakistan is facing multiple fault lines that are hampering the growth of the already conditioned economy of the country, including a breakdown of law and order domestically, which poses major challenges to the establishment and sectarian violence.
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 17 (ANI): Sunni Muslim groups, the Deobandi Tehereek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the rival Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) that represents the Barelvis, are fomenting sectarian violence across Pakistan.
Navsari (Gujarat) [India], July 14 (ANI): The Coast Guard on Thursday rescued two women and a child trapped in the Toran village of Navsari after heavy rainfall.
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