News/City Updates

Indian Navy Ship Gharial carries relief material for Rohingya refugees to Chittagong

Indian Government is giving humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh for aiding the Rohingya refugees. It is code named Operation Insaniyat. It is a humanitarian move to aid a fellow country in distress over the Rohingya refugee crisis. With 900 tons of relief packed up Indian Navy has sent INS Gharial to Chittagong Port. The ship has reached yesterday. Indian Navy has packaged the relief with consideration. The ship is carrying relief in packets for family packets containing rations, clothes, mosquito nets and daily necessary essentials. The present relief aid is estimated to help 70,000 families approximately.

After supplying the cargo of relief the Indian Navy ship will be participating in a bi-lateral naval exercise with Bangladesh Navy. INS Gharial is is the second indigenous built Landing Ship Tank (Large) commissioned on 14 Feb 1997 into Indian Navy. It is part of the Eastern Fleet under the Eastern Naval Command stationed at Vizag. The ship lends itself very useful to various Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions in the past including for delivery of relief material/ supplies to Chittagong post ‘Cyclone Sidr’ in 2008. This deployment was for the sole aim of helping out on humanitarian grounds the Rohingya refugees in friendly nation, Bangladesh.

Team Yo! Vizag

Recent Posts

Girls vaccinated against cancer

Girls in the age group of 9-14 years were administered HPV booster vaccine dose at…

14 hours ago

6 Sports TV Shows That’ll Ruin Your Productivity This Weekend!

There's always something happening in the sports field around the world. Like, currently, the FIFA…

1 day ago

JNTU-GV holds first convocation

The first convocation of JNTU-GV was held at AU Convocation Hall in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.…

1 day ago

Husband of Radha Gayatri held

Sricharan, husband of Vizag techie Radha Gayatri who died under mysterious conditions in Mussoorie last…

1 day ago

‘Mahendragiri’ joins Navy fleet

Warship INS Mahendragiri, a Nilgiri-class stealth guided missile frigate of the Indian Navy, was commissioned…

1 day ago

Cabinet okays establishment of NIA special court in Vizag

The State Cabinet, at its meeting on Friday, approved the establishment of a National Investigation…

2 days ago