In interview with ThePrint, Dhananjay Ramful says 2025 Chagos deal with UK, criticised now by Trump, awaits ratification. He calls for solutions on maritime security amid West Asia conflict.
The ICJ in a 2019 advisory opinion said UK had no authority to take control of the disputed archipelago before independence of Mauritius and asked it to end its administration.
Indian ships and naval assets can now move across from the Pacific to Singapore, Andamans, Diego Garcia, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Djibouti, onwards to Oman.
With eye on rural votebank, Telangana budget raises allocations for farmers, power & welfare schemes, while introducing new initiatives and relying on borrowings to fund growth.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
All the Indian Ocean region nations should join hands and resolve to disallow any sovereign from using it as launchpad for unjustified wars . Especially the imperialist Western nations. Sense needs to be knowledge into the madmans head. He is not the world police.
All the Indian Ocean region nations should join hands and resolve to disallow any sovereign from using it as launchpad for unjustified wars . Especially the imperialist Western nations. Sense needs to be knowledge into the madmans head. He is not the world police.