Gujarat coast News

A huge consignment of drugs has been caught off Gujarat waters. A Pakistani boat has been caught with 40 kg of drugs. Taking a big action, Coast Guard and ATS of Gujarat have caught 6 people along with the boat.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has said that all the 12 crew of the cargo ship MV Kanchan, off Gujarat, have been rescued. The ship had been dead in the water after contamination in the fuel leaving its engine defunct and the vessel without power supply. 

IMD has predicted that the Cyclone Tauktae will touch the Gujarat coast in the evening with a speed gusting to 185 kmph. It lay centred over east-central Arabian Sea, about 260 km southeast of Veraval (Gujarat) at 8:30 AM on May 17.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has issued an order stating that the operations at the airport shall remain closed from 11 am to 2 pm today in view of Cyclone Tauktae. The IMD had also informed the BMC that Mumbai is not in the direct line of the threat of the cyclone. However, as it will pass through the sea near the Mumbai coast, its effect is likely to be accompanied by rain and strong winds.

New Delhi:  As Cyclone Tauktae continues to impact several states on the Western Coast including Gujarat, damaging structures, electricity lines, and uprooting trees, the India Meteorological Department on Tuesday (May 18) informed that the cyclone is continuing to show a weakening trend.

Over 1.5 lakh people were evacuated from low-lying areas along the western coast as a powerful Cyclone Tauktae is expected to make landfall in Gujarat by Monday. Tauktae has now become a “very severe cyclonic storm" and is likely to intensify even further in the next 24 hours. At least six people have lost their lives, hundreds of houses were damaged, trees and electricity poles were uprooted in the coastal areas.

IMD on Sunday morning (May 16) said that cyclonic storm Tauktae has intensified. The weather department predicted that it is expected to reach the Gujarat coast by May 18. Cyclone Tauktae is expected to hit the Gujarat coast with a wind speed ranging up to 175 kmph.

An alert has been issued for Mumbai city and suburbs, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg districts, as these are coastal areas.

The ministry of external affairs in a note verbale condemned the "deplorable and unprofessional act" by PMSA vessel, calling it a contravention of international laws.

The Pakistani boat was seized in a joint operation by the Coast Guard and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

The joint operation was conducted by the Anti-Terrorist Squad, Indian Coast Guard and the Marine Task Force.

So far eight fishing boats and around 40 fishermen have been rescued and brought to safety with search and rescue mission by the Indian Coast Guard, after they were caught amid turbulent seas off the Gujarat coast on Wednesday.

So far eight fishing boats and around 40 fishermen have been rescued and brought to safety with search and rescue mission by the Indian Coast Guard, after they were caught amid turbulent seas off the Gujarat coast on Wednesday.

The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) apprehended 30 fishermen and seized five boats off Gujarat coast, an official of the Porbandar-based National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) said.

India on Tuesday warned Pakistan to consider the "consequences" on their ties if Kulbhushan Jadhav is hanged in the alleged espionage case.

The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency today seized 10 to 12 boats with around seventy fishermen on board in the Arabian sea off the Gujarat coast, a fishermen's association said.

All the boats belong to fishermen from Porbandar.

The Pakistani officials have arrested 10 Indian fishermen and seized their boats seized off Gujarat coast.

The security agencies have said that the boats found along the Gujarat coast belonged to Pakistani fishermen.

Two of three boats were registered at Porbandar while one was registered in Okha.