Tuesday, December 3, 2019

The news that gladdened me!

Indian Navy forced Chinese ship to return after it entered our exclusive economic zone in Andaman Sea!

* Navy forced China's ship to return after it entered India's EEZ in the Andaman Sea in September, 
   officials said.
* Our stand is that if you have to work in our EEZ, then you have to take our permission : Navy
   Chief.
* Chinese vessel Shi Yan 1 was carrying out research activities in the Indian waters near Port
   Blair and was detected by maritime surveillance aircraft.

The Indian Navy forced China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) research ship to return after
it entered India's EEZ in the Andaman Sea in September, officials said. Asked about the incident during a press conference, the Naval Chief Admiral Karambir Singh said anyone operating in "our region, will have to notify the Indian Navy".

The officials said the Chinese Navy's research ship was forced to leave the area as it had not sought permission to come there.

"Our stand is that if you have to work in our exclusive economic zone, then you have to take our permission," he said while reacting to a question by ANI on why the Chineses vessel Shi Yan 1 was asked to leave Indian waters. Earlier, ANI had reported that the Indian Navy drove away a suspicious Chineses vessel operating in the Indian waters near Port Blair recently.

The Chinese research vessel Shi Yan 1 was carrying out research activities in the Indian waters near Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and was detected by maritime surveillance aircraft operating there, government sources told ANI.

Sources said the vessel could have also been used by the Chinese to spy on the Indian activities in the Island territory from where India can keep a close eye on the maritime movements in the IOR and South-East Asian region. After the vessel was detected by the agencies and found out that it was carrying out research activities in the Indian EEZ, an Indian Naval warship was sent there to monitor it.

Since laws do not allow foreign countries to carry out any research or exploration activities in the Indian EEZ, the Indian Naval warship asked the Chinese research vessel to move out of Indian waters.

After being cautioned by the Indian Navy, the Chinese Shi Yan 1 vessel left Indian waters and moved to its other destination probably towards China, the sources said.

And Happy Navy Day! 04 Dec is Navy Day, commemorating the attack on Karachi harbour by IN ships in 1971!!


Tailpiece.

The morning walk was nice. After breakfast, around 1000 hrs, I'd gone to town to complete quite a few pending work. Vishnu, the bank manager told me about his not receiving three FASTag requests through his man, despite a lapse of a fortnight and fearing that my request would meet the same fate directed me to the Indus Motors for the same.

Had gone there at 1730 hrs, as required by Abu and got our Chevy FASTagged within 20'. 


 

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