India is planning to set up coastal surveillance radar systems in friendly countries to counter China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean Region, sources in the security establishment said. ...

The geopolitical importance of the Western Indian Ocean rests on its connectivity with North America, Europe and Asia. In recent years, the discovery of oil and gas blocks has attracted global players...

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The Indian Ocean has the character it does only because of the Indian subcontinent as a whole — jutting out, to quote the great Indian historian and diplomat, K.M. Panikkar, “far into the sea for ...

The third edition of the Indian Ocean Conference concluded in Hanoi, Vietnam, after participants from 43 nations, most of whom were ministers representing their countries, put forward their ideas on â...

In April 2018, two American air force pilots stationed in Djibouti suffered eye injuries from a high-powered laser that originated 750 metres from China’s base there, sparking an alert from the Amer...

A bird that spends almost its entire life in the skies over the Indian Ocean was found in a village near Dankuni in Hooghly district, possibly swept in by Cyclone Fani.The juvenile red-tailed tropicbi...

Over 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone made landfall near the port city of Beira, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nat...

A British-led scientific mission to document changes taking place beneath the Indian Ocean has broadcast its first live, television-quality video transmission from a two-person submersible.Monsoon sto...

India is keenly keeping track of China’s increasing presence in the Indian Ocean, navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh said on Tuesday, asserting that the force was fully prepared and equipped to deal ...