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Topic: Indian Ocean Region

House panel flags growing ‘China-Pakistan naval nexus’, calls for more ‘flexible’ approach to Quad

The committee also underlined India’s need for more ‘strategic coherence’, highlighting ambiguities in SAGAR and MAHASAGAR frameworks announced by PM Modi in the last decade.

Turkey’s ‘Asia Anew’ isn’t just a slogan—it’s a growing strategic surprise for India

While Turkey has expanded arms sales to Pakistan and Bangladesh, India has been conspicuously excluded, or rather blacklisted.

With Modi’s MAHASAGAR pitch, India ramps up bid to be key security partner in ‘Global South’

The PM was on a 2-day visit to Mauritius. The two countries further elevated ties to an 'enhanced strategic partnership' and signed 8 agreements.

Modi’s Mauritius visit is key to countering China. And safeguarding western Indian Ocean

Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam has shown remarkable diplomatic deftness in balancing India and China. The invite to Modi shows India’s importance to his vision for Mauritius.

Increased deployment, joint exercises, foreign training & faster aid — Indian Navy’s growing footprint

The Indian Navy has come a long way since 2004 when an Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a major tsunami. The Indian Ocean is generally touted as the Indian Navy's ‘backyard’.

Indian Ocean has suddenly become ‘Indo-Pacific’ due to geopolitics, says Sri Lanka President

In video address at roundtable discussion in Colombo, Ranil Wickremesinghe said 'maps are now drawn not according to geography, but geopolitics'.

110 rescued, 1.5 mn tonnes of goods escorted, says Navy chief vowing sustained ops against piracy

Admiral Kumar says renewed Operation Sankalp last December after getting info about drone, missile attacks & attacks by pirates on vessels in Indian Ocean Region.

As India gets ready to test-fire another ballistic missile, 4th Chinese spy ship heads to Indian Ocean

The Chinese have already deployed the Xiang Yang Hong 01 and Xiang Yang Hong 02, oceanographic survey and research ships along with Da Yang Hao in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

All about dramatic ops by India on high seas that led to arrest of 35 pirates, rescue of 17 hostages

The former Maltese-flagged merchant vessel Ruen was originally hijacked on 14 December last year by the pirates and was being used as a mother ship.

Pirates open fire on Indian Navy warship in international waters, Navy responds in ‘self-defence’

The pirates on board the hijacked merchant vessel have been called upon to surrender and release the vessel, as well as civilians they may have held hostage.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?