New Delhi: Iran on Thursday ordered release of an Indian tanker detained by it for the past 24 days at its Bandar Abbas port after being seized in Persian Gulf while carrying crude from Basrah in Ira

he Indian Coast Guard, gr­eat in enacting mock rescue exercises for TV came­r­as, was found woefully wa­nting in real-life disast­er when a marine engineer drowned and five of his ma­tes went missing

After a brief lull, pirates hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker in the Arabian Sea with a crew of 15, mostly Indians and Filipinos.

The Liberian-flagged Smyrni, carrying 135,000 tonnes of oil, was sei