Patrick Herminie is on first state visit to India after assuming Seychellois presidency last year—a signal New Delhi is trying to compete with Beijing in expanding maritime footprint.
New Delhi offers to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul of Royal Australian Navy ships in Indian shipyards during their deployment to Indian Ocean Region.
Damien Symon, a geo-intelligence and OSINT expert, affiliated with The Intel Lab, shared the satellite images of the ship moving in the Indian Ocean on social media.
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.
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.
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’.
UCBs accounted for 1.8% of total industry credit in September 2025—down from 2.2% five yrs ago—showing that they are losing ground to faster PSU banks.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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