{"id":10697,"date":"2026-06-21T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:28:26","slug":"indian-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-coast-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Indian Coast Guard Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) marked the 12th International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2026 with great enthusiasm and nationwide participation through its flagship initiative, \u201cYoga Sangam 2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Indian Coast Guard<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>maritime armed force<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> operating under the <\/span><b>Ministry of Defence, Government of India.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>multi-mission organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, conducting round-the-year real-life operations at sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was formally <\/span><b>established in 1978<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the <\/span><b>Coast Guard Act, 1978<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an independent Armed force of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Headquarters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Headquarters of the ICG <\/span><b>is located in New Delhi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is under the command of the Director General Indian Coast Guard.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Moto:<\/strong> \u201cVAYAM RAKSHAMAH\u201d \u2013 WE PROTECT<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mission:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To protect our ocean and offshore wealth, including oil, fish, and minerals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To assist mariners in distress and safeguard life and property at sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To enforce maritime laws with respect to the sea, poaching, smuggling, and narcotics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To preserve the marine environment and ecology and protect rare species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To collect scientific data and back up the Navy during war.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2275961&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Coast Guard  is a maritime armed force operating under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. Read more about Indian Coast Guard, Motto, Mission, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":109338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5072,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-10697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-indian-coast-guard","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109246,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/109246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}