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Indian crew on ‘diesel smuggling’ tanker seized by Iran free to leave, stay due to ‘technical issues’

Indian embassy in Tehran is coordinating with authorities to facilitate the return of Indian crew on the vessel seized last Friday in the Gulf of Oman, it is learnt.

3 decks to soak up sun, 18 suites — what ‘world’s longest river cruise’ Ganga Vilas is offering

The luxury cruise is set to sail from Varanasi to Dibrugarh over a course of 51 days and traverse 3,200 kms – covering 27 rivers and 5 states in India and Bangladesh.

How a captain’s mid-ocean detour tipped off investors to a Covid crisis at sea

Investors discovered that strict Covid protocols had left hundreds of seafarers stranded on cargo ships, turning them from engines of global commerce into floating prisons.

Nightmare at sea ends in death for some cruise-ship workers

More than 90,000 cruise workers in US waters are stranded on ships and the toll of isolation in cabins and cancellation of flights back home is resulting in suicides.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.