Lakshwadeep Islands

As a ripple effect of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Lakshwadeep Islands in January this year, tourism officer Imthias Mohammed T B has confirmed a rise in inquiries to visit the island region.

Lakshadweep is just the perfect destination for your next escape; Here's why

The Lakshadweep administration has refused to permission to a group of Congress parliamentarians to visit the islands, saying that according to a police report, it might instigate violent agitations, which is part of planned effort to ruin the peace.

In a statement being looked at closely by the Indian government, the US Navy's 7th Fleet has said it conducted Freedom of Navigation Operations within India's exclusive economic zone off the Lakshadweep Islands without India's permission.

A Maersk container ship, with 27 crew members on board including 13 Indians, caught fire in the Arabian Sea near Lakshadweep Islands last night, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Lakshadweep islands, Tamil Nadu and Kerala to oversee the damage done by Cyclone Ockhi. The Prime Minister is likely to go to Agatti and then to Thiruvananthapuram. He will then travel to Kanyakumari by helicopter, where he will get a first hand report from the affected fishermen, district officials told new...

The Navy today said 10 of its ships and eight aircraft were involved in the continuing search and rescue operations in the southeast Arabian Sea and Lakshadweep and Minicoy islands following Cyclone Ockhi.

In a major exercise in Lakshadweep, the Indian Navy launched a multiple rescue mission today to fly out patients in need of emergency medical evacuation from the islands in the Indian Ocean to the naval base at Kochi. And all this, through heavy monsoon rains and low visibility.

Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency recorded 87.05 per cent polling for the lone seat in the polls held yesterday in the Union Territory, where Congress sitting MP Hamdullah Sayeed is trying his luck for the second time.

Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, will resume operations between Kochi and Agatti in Lakshwadeep islands from March 1.

The Indian Navy has captured 28 pirates of Prantalaya-11, a fishing trawler, that was spotted 100 miles off the Lakshwadeep Islands.The captured pirates from the hijacked Thai ship will be brought back to Mumbai. The pirates surrendered after INS Teer and a Coast Guard ship and helicopters closed in on them. Last week 18 Somalian pirate...

As a ripple effect of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Lakshwadeep Islands in January this year, tourism officer Imthias Mohammed T B has confirmed a rise in inquiries to visit the island region.

Lakshadweep is just the perfect destination for your next escape; Here's why

The Lakshadweep administration has refused to permission to a group of Congress parliamentarians to visit the islands, saying that according to a police report, it might instigate violent agitations, which is part of planned effort to ruin the peace.

In a statement being looked at closely by the Indian government, the US Navy's 7th Fleet has said it conducted Freedom of Navigation Operations within India's exclusive economic zone off the Lakshadweep Islands without India's permission.

A Maersk container ship, with 27 crew members on board including 13 Indians, caught fire in the Arabian Sea near Lakshadweep Islands last night, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Lakshadweep islands, Tamil Nadu and Kerala to oversee the damage done by Cyclone Ockhi. The Prime Minister is likely to go to Agatti and then to Thiruvananthapuram. He will then travel to Kanyakumari by helicopter, where he will get a first hand report from the affected fishermen, district officials told new...

The Navy today said 10 of its ships and eight aircraft were involved in the continuing search and rescue operations in the southeast Arabian Sea and Lakshadweep and Minicoy islands following Cyclone Ockhi.

In a major exercise in Lakshadweep, the Indian Navy launched a multiple rescue mission today to fly out patients in need of emergency medical evacuation from the islands in the Indian Ocean to the naval base at Kochi. And all this, through heavy monsoon rains and low visibility.

Lakshadweep Lok Sabha constituency recorded 87.05 per cent polling for the lone seat in the polls held yesterday in the Union Territory, where Congress sitting MP Hamdullah Sayeed is trying his luck for the second time.

Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India Limited, will resume operations between Kochi and Agatti in Lakshwadeep islands from March 1.

The Indian Navy has captured 28 pirates of Prantalaya-11, a fishing trawler, that was spotted 100 miles off the Lakshwadeep Islands.The captured pirates from the hijacked Thai ship will be brought back to Mumbai. The pirates surrendered after INS Teer and a Coast Guard ship and helicopters closed in on them. Last week 18 Somalian pirate...