{"id":304561,"date":"2018-10-23T06:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304561"},"modified":"2018-10-23T06:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:38:30","slug":"sri-lankan-navy-apprehends-5-indian-fishermen-boat-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sri-lankan-navy-apprehends-5-indian-fishermen-boat-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Navy apprehends 5 Indian fishermen, boat seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300968 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fishermen-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen-454x420.jpg 454w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/fishermen.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sri Lankan Navy from Neduntheevu in northern Sri Lanka on October 23 apprehended at least five Indian fishermen belonging to Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sri Lankan Navy authorities also seized a mechanized boat from the fishermen while they were fishing near Neduntheevu early this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Straying of Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen into each other&#8217;s waters is a recurrent problem as territories on the sea are not clearly demarcated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, last week wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking the release of eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu lodged in Sri Lankan prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan Navy from Neduntheevu in northern Sri Lanka on October 23 apprehended at least five Indian fishermen belonging to Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan Navy authorities also seized a mechanized boat from the fishermen while they were fishing near Neduntheevu early this morning. Straying of Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen into each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[4706,6734,6733,1277,4881,644,6735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304562,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304561\/revisions\/304562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}