An oil tanker with 23 Indian sailors aboard was today hijacked by pirates off the shores of Nigeria, the third such attack in over two weeks in the Gulf of Guinea.

International Maritime Bureau (IMB)

All 23 Indian sailors aboard an oil tanker were safe after the Nigerian navy rescued their vessel that was hijacked briefly by pirates off the coast of southern Nigeria.

In the third such attack in

Union shipping minister G.K. Vasan said the government is making discreet moves to bring back sailors being held hostage by the Somali pirates. “In coordination with defence and external affairs minis

Seven Indians on board a fishing boat have gone missing from Masirah waters in Oman and may have been kidnapped by pirates, a media report has said.

According to the report, coast guards in the coun

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

Earlier this week, families of seven Indian seafarers on board the Italian flag vessel MT Enrico Levoll heaved a sigh of relief. The men had been held hostage for four months after their ship was hija

Chennai marine police got a rude shock on Thursday when they learnt that a ship was being hijacked.
A police team rushed to the spot and ‘captured’ the ‘criminals’ who had boarded the Geo Hindu Sagar,

An extreme example of athithi devo bhava (guest is God) — India’s slogan for attracting foreign tourists — was when a couple of years ago, the Karnataka government mistook two Somali pirates as foreig

Ten of the 11 fishermen kidnapped by Bangladeshi pirates last month returned here in South 24 Parganas district on Friday night but one was still missing, official sources said.

After they reached h

Two groups of Bangladeshi pirates on Friday night killed four Indian fishermen, injured eight others and hijacked a trawler carrying twelve fishermen in the Bay of Bengal, police said.

One group of