The Navy, which has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden from October 23, has prevented the hijack of an Indian merchant ship, ‘Jag Arnav’, in the Gulf of Aden - an area is infested by heavily-armed Somalian pirates.
The hijack was attempted when the 38,265-tonne bulk carrier, owned by the Great Eastern Shipping Company, was sailing 60 nautical miles east of Aden. The warship, ‘INS Tabar’, patrolling the area, was then 25 nautical miles away from the spot.
Around 5,000 doctors working under the Department of Health and Family Welfare in Karnataka have threatened to deepen their two-day-old agitation, by paralysing emergency as well as postmortem services in government hospitals across the State.
