Fishermen Attacked

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  6 Tamil Nadu Fishermen Attacked, Robbed Mid-Sea: Cops

  Six fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district were allegedly attacked and robbed mid-sea near Point Calimere (Kodiyakarai) by unidentified men, police said today.

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  Attack On Fishermen: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Seeks PM Modi's Intervention

  Eight Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu where injured when they were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy while fishing off Neduntheevu, prompting the state government to seek Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to curb such 'violent actions'.

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  Lankan Navy Attacks Tamil Nadu Fishermen; Sinks Boat, Snaps Nets

  Sri Lankan Naval personnel allegedly attacked Tamil Nadu fishermen with stones besides ramming and sinking a mechanised boat and destroying fishing nets of several other vessels off Dhanushkodi, a Fishermen Association functionary said on Thursday.

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  Sri Lankan Gang Attacked Us, Tore Our Nets, Allege Tamil Nadu Fishermen

  About a 100 fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam District have alleged that they were attacked and looted by an unidentified armed gang from Sri Lanka while fishing off the Kodiakarai coast on Thursday.

• Jayalalithaa urges PM Manmohan Singh to take up attack on Tamil Nadu fishermen with Sri Lanka

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take attacks on fishermen personally at the highest level in Sri Lanka to ensure "immediate de-escalation".

• Tamil Nadu fishermen arrest: Centre adopting soft approach, says Karunanidhi

  DMK President M Karunanidhi on Sunday slammed the Centre for adopting a "soft approach" on the issue of recurring attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen unlike its "active" stand on the issue of killing of two Kerala fishermen allegedly by Italians marines.

• Sri Lankan Navy put chilly powder in our eyes, say four Indian fishermen

  Four fishermen from Puducherry have been injured in an alleged attack by Sri Lankan Coast Guard personnel, who, they say, threw chilly powder in their eyes, beat them up and dumped their equipment, worth fifteen lakh rupees in the sea.

• Madras High Court issues directive to Coast Guard on attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen

  The Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Monday directed the Indian Coast Guard to file an affidavit on future steps and those already taken to protect Indian fishermen from attacks allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel in the Palk Strait.

• More Tamil Nadu fishermen attacked by Lankan Navy

  In yet another incident, the Sri Lankan Navy allegedly attacked some fishermen off Kodiakarai coast and damaged a boat, fisheries department officials said on Thursday. The officials said eight fishermen of Arucottuthurai in Vedaranyam in the district complained that the Lankan Navy personnel attacked them the previous night.

• Four Indian fishermen attacked by Sri Lankan Navy

  Four Indian fishermen were today attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan naval men off Katchatheevu, even as nine others detained by the island Navy arrived at the coastguard camp in Mandapam near Rameswaram.

• Media reports of attack on Tamil fishermen false: Government

  Tamil Nadu Government on Tuesday denied reports that the state's fishermen were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy on April 2. "A section of the media reported that Tamil fishermen were attacked by Sri Lankan Navy on April 2. On investigation, we found that the reports were not true," Fisheries Minister KA Jayapal told the Assembly.

• Jayalalithaa wants PM to take up issue of attacks on fishermen with Sri Lanka

  Voicing serious concern over continued attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen allegedly by Sri Lankan navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asked the Centre to take up urgently the issue with the island government to ensure that no such "brutal incidents occur in mid-sea again."

• Indian fishermen attacked, allegedly by Sri Lankan navy

  Five Tamil Nadu fishermen were allegedly attacked by the Sri Lankan navy last night. They were reportedly attacked in the Indian waters.

• Tamil Nadu fishermen "attacked" by Lankan Navy

  Around 20 fishermen from Tamil Nadu were injured when they were allegedly attacked by Sri Lankan Navy personnel in mid-sea off Dhanushkodi, fisheries officials said today.   The Sri Lankan naval men surrounded the boats of the fishermen, opened fire in air and then allegedly pelted stones at them around midnight yesterday, they said. Whil...

• Tamil Nadu fishermen allege attack by Sri Lankan Navy

  Fishermen from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu were injured when they were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel. The fishermen say that the incident took place while they were fishing between Dhanuskodi and Katchativu islands, said the police. The fishermen also told the police that the Naval personnel had taken away their catch, global positi...