41 Somali pirates finally sent home in special chartered flight

The first batch of 41 Somali pirates was deported on Friday from among the 117 caught in Indian waters in 2011 and freed recently.A special chartered flight was arranged by the Somali embassy.They were convicted by a sessions court on August 2, 2017, under various...

After prison term for piracy, 41 Somali men fly back home

Around 9.30am, the men were brought to the airport’s Terminal 2 in Mumbai police’s vans from Yellow Gate police station in South Mumbai where they had been kept in “safe custody” since their release from Kolhapur jail on January 2 and January 12.

Anti-piracy mission helps China develop its blue-water navy

China’s 27th and 28th naval escort task forces have recently completed their mission handover in the Gulf of Aden. Anti-piracy operations by the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) have become a constant in the area. And this has both immediate and long-term strategic implications for Beijing’s military projection away from its traditional perimeter of action in East...