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Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus Valley initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia. [1] India's long coastline, which occurred due to the protrusion of India's Deccan Plateau, helped it to make new trade relations with the Europeans, especially the Greeks, and the length of its coastline on the Indian Ocean is partly a reason ...
In 1940 RMS Empress of Britain was attacked by a Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor bomber and, while being towed back to port, was torpedoed by U-32, a Kriegsmarine U-boat. She was the largest vessel sunk by a U-boat in WWII. 45 men were lost in the initial attack. In 1940 SS Beaverburn was torpedoed by U-boat U-41.
The Double Sunrise service was formed in July 1943 to re-establish the Australia–England air link that had been cut due to the fall of Singapore in February 1942. The service initially operated from its base in Nedlands, Western Australia near Perth, [4] to the Royal Air Force base at Lake Koggala near Galle in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Chowgule Global. Chowgule Shiprepair Pvt Ltd - An Advanced Syncrolift Facility. Cochin Shipyard Limited. Kochi. State-owned. Government of India. Subsidiaries - Hooghly Cochin Shipyard Limited, Udupi Cochin Shipyard Limited. Dempo Shipbuilding & Engineering Private Limited. Goa.
With an estimated 1,428,627,663 residents in 2023, India is the world's most populous country. [ 14] 1,210,193,422 residents were reported in the 2011 provisional census report. [ 360] Its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, [ 361] compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001). [ 361]
Bilateral relations between the Netherlands and the Thailand date back to 1604, [1] as one of the earliest interactions between Europeans and Siamese. Thailand today is a popular tourist site for Dutch tourists, while the Netherlands is the largest EU invester in Thailand. [2]
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India-Singapore relations, also known as the Indo-Singaporean relations, are the bilateral relations between India and Singapore. Relations between the two countries have traditionally been strong and friendly, with the two nations enjoying extensive ...
The Komagata Maru incident involved the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, on which a group of people from British India attempted to immigrate to Canada in April 1914, but most were denied entry and forced to return to Budge Budge, near Calcutta (present-day Kolkata ). There, the Indian Imperial Police attempted to arrest the group leaders.