Palk
Proper noun
Meaning
Palk
A surname.
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India is Sri Lanka's only neighbour, separated by the Palk Strait ; both nations occupy a strategic position in South Asia and have sought to build a common security umbrella in the Indian Ocean.
Perhaps the simple fact that these Mumbai terrorists came in a fishing trawler should have been anticipated in the light of similar terrorist operations taking place across the Palk Straits.
In the whole world, there was no other place where this chank was present in such abundance as in the seabeds of the Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar along the coastal areas of present-day Tamil Nadu and the Northern Province of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Physically challenged swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya is all set out to cross the Palk Strait in July next year after his successful expedition of the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar.
The commencement of train operations on the Talaimannar line enabled the carriage of the Indo-Ceylon traffic for several decades via a daily ferry service across the Palk Strait between Dhanushkodi (in India), and the Talaimannar pier ( in Ceylon ).
The Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar separate India from Sri Lanka to its immediate southeast, and the Maldives are some convert to the southwest.