VISAKHAPATNAM: Shipping Corporation of India's (SCI)oil tanker,MT Desh Shanti, which was detained in Iran for 26 days, arrived at Visakhapatnam portin the early hours on Wednesday, sources said. "The tanker reached at off shore tanker terminal (OSTT) of Visakhapatnam Port at 5.35am today," port sources said. The vessel was detained on August 12 ...

Bangalore:India has filed an appeal with a regional grouping of 16 maritime nations seeking constitution of a Detention Review Panel to review the case involving the hold-up of an Indian ship by Iran. The appeal is an indication that India may pursue a legal action against Iran for detaining the ship for 26 days, arguing that the detention was illegal....

IRNA news agency says India paid a fine to allow the oil tanker to resume its voyage on Thursday. Tehran:An Indian oil tanker seized by Iran in August for allegedly polluting Gulf waters has been allowed to leave the port where it was held, an Iranian official said Thursday. MT Desh Shanti, owned by state-runShipping Corp. of India Ltd(SCI) was ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official said that the Indian oil tanker, MT Desh Shanti, which was intercepted by the Iranian Navy as it was carrying Iraqi oil through the Persian Gulf can leave the country after presenting the necessary guarantees to the Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization and compensating through its protection and indemnity (P&I) ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Minister of Road and Urbanization Seyed Ataollah Sadr announced on Saturday that Tehran and New Delhi are close to an agreement on the fate of an Indian oil tanker which was intercepted by Iran in the Persian Gulf earlier this month. "The negotiations in this regard are yielding results" and if India's shipping line ...

The deadlock over detention of an Indian oil tanker by Iranian authorities at Bandar Abbas port failed to resolve with virtually no progress on the issue even as it entered the 14th day today. "Unfortunately the status remains the same even as various government machinery including the Indian Embassy in Tehran, Ministries of Shipping and External ...

India has rejected an Iranian demand for a $1 million guarantee to free a tanker detained in the West Asian country since 13 August allegedly for polluting Iranian waters even as it is working on a strategy to break the deadlock, according to a top government official. We are not going to give them any guarantee that is meaningful, said a top bureaucrat....

NEW DELHI: With the impasse over Iran's "illegal detention'' of an Indian ship continuing, the government on Wednesday described the situation as delicate.Iranis now learnt to have demanded $1 million as guarantee money for releasing MTDeshShantiwhich was on its way to India, carrying 140,000tonnesof crude from Iraq, when it was detained in international ...

TEHRAN Indian government officials were scheduled to meet Iranian diplomats in New Delhi on Wednesday in an attempt to resolve a dispute over an Indian oil tanker that Iranian naval authorities recently detained, saying that the ship was polluting Iranian waters, the Wall Street Journal quoted an Indian executive as saying. An executive with state-...

Iran news headlines on Tuesday include ambiguity of Iranian president'sabout his nuclear negotiator; issuing of indictments for defendants in case of Iranian blogger's death; Iran and Turkey stressing over expansion of economic cooperation; Rouhani visiting Kyrgyzstan next month; Iranian technicians completing jacket for south pars project; Iran ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian foreign ministry spokesman called India a friendly country and reliable trade partner, and expressed Tehran's readiness to cooperate with New Delhi to clarify the technical issues surrounding the Indian oil tanker detained in the Persian Gulf. The Indian oil tanker was detained by Iranian naval forces in accordance with ...

India has sent a team of experts to Iran to inspect the oil tanker that has been impounded by Iranian naval forces over causing widespread pollution in the waters of the Persian Gulf, Indian media say. Indias Directorate General of Shipping sent a delegation including a senior official with the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and members of Indian ...

NEW DELHI: Deadlock over detainment of an Indian oil tanker by Iran on Sunday entered its seventh day as both countries failed to resolve the issue despite hectic parleys. "There is no development so far. The ship is still there in the custody of the Iranian authorities at Bandar Abbas port," a topShipping Corporation of India(SCI) official told PTI....

Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman says Tehran has invited Indian experts to inspect the MT Desh Shanti oil tanker that was intercepted by the Iranian Navy for causing widespread pollution in the Persian Gulf. Abbas Araqchi said on Saturday that on August 6 Iran received a warning from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) about MT Desh Shanti ...

Iran news headlines on Saturday include Iran president stressing over change in Foreign policy; country new oil minister expressing over country's ability in overcoming west's sanctions; Iranian and Turkish FMs calling for expansion of relations; county unveiling of new air defense systems and equipment; Iran and India talks over detained tanker; Iran ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans embassy in New Delhi dismissed rumors by some Indian media that political motives were behind the interception of an Indian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. Over the past days, a number of distorted reports have been published by certain Indian media over interception of the Indian MT Desh Shanti oil tanker in the Persian ...

NEW DELHI: Despite hectic parleys between the two countries, India and Iran failed to resolve the issue ofMT Desh Shantiwhich, according to Indian authorities, was illegally detained by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) on Tuesday. The vessel is still atBandar Abbas port. Iran said the tanker was detained only because of the warning issued by ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Indian oil tanker, MT Desh Shanti, which was intercepted by the Iranian Navy as it was carrying Iraqi oil through the Persian Gulf is in the custody of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Office, a senior official said, reiterating that the vessel should compensate through its protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance coverage for the ...

New Delhi: India on Friday said it is in discussions through diplomatic channels with Iran over the detention of an Indian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf even as Tehran termed the detention as a "technical and non-political issue". The Indian External Affairs Ministry here said it was "in discussions through diplomatic channels with Iran on the ...

Iran news headlines on Thursday include Iran seizing of Indian ship carrying oil from Iraq; Russian analyst stressing over necessity of Iran's participation in Geneva 2 conference;Azerbaijan republic navy commander visiting Iran; country police seizing of 460kg of narcotics; Iranian MP condemnation of killing of people in Egypt protests; Indian envoy ...