India in pacts to develop infrastructure in Mauritius, Seychelles

Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2015, 17:27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured agreements to develop islands in Mauritius and Seychelles in an early success for his drive to wrest back influence in the Indian Ocean from China.

`Game of Thrones`: 2013`s most pirated show

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 13:27

The season finale of `Game of Thrones` has been named the most-pirated television show for the second year in a row.

160 sea pirates languishing in Indian prisons: Navy

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 11:58

Some 160 sea pirates, arrested by the Indian Navy in the Gulf of Aden, were languishing in Indian prisons as the governments of their native countries were not ready to take them back, a senior naval officer said.

Google axed 200mn search results in 2013 over piracy claims

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 16:29

Google has reportedly removed about 200 million search links from its platform in 2013 after they were found to be allegedly linked to pirated content.

East Africa pirates took up to $413 mn since 2005

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 09:32

Horn of Africa pirates have raked in up to USD 413 million in ransom since 2005, with most of it used to finance "global scale" criminal operations, a new study said.

Russia switches Greenpeace piracy charge to `hooliganism`

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 13:12

The Investigative Committee, the Russian agency in charge of probing serious crimes, said it had reclassified the crime as hooliganism, which carries a lesser sentence.

Detained US ship not involved in gunrunning: Sandhu

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 20:01

Deputy National Security Adviser Nehchal Sandhu today said he did not think that the American ship, detained by National Coast Guard off Tamil Nadu coast for carrying arms, was involved in gunrunning.

Russia says some Greenpeace activists to face new charges

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 19:46

The Moscow-based Investigative Committee said the authorities had found "narcotic substances" on the Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise ship detained by Russia.

Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy

Last Updated: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 09:49

Five of 30 Greenpeace activists arrested last month for a protest at a Russian oil platform in Arctic waters were charged Wednesday with piracy, media reported.

Russia charges 14 activists with piracy: Greenpeace

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 17:57

Russian investigators today charged 14 Greenpeace campaigners with piracy over an open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling, the environmental group said, calling the move "absurd."