11.  Indian MPs sought a ban Monday on fishing by foreign trawlers in Indian waters, saying they were threatening the earnings of hundreds of thousands of local fishermen.

12.  A.K. Tandon, director-general of the Border Security Force said the vessel had been intercepted in Indian waters off the district of Kutch.

13.  Advani criticised the opening up of the consumer goods sector to multinationals, and the permits given by New Delhi to foreign trawlers to fish in Indian waters.

14.  Chinese authorities had asserted that the trawlers, on their way from Malaysia to Burma, had mistakenly entered Indian waters.

15.  Several international ocean liners have also stopped plying the Indian waters, port officials said in Calcutta.