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Topic: Indian Ocean

US intel flags China’s military plans, says PLA looking at more overseas military bases

China considering pursuing military facilities in countries including Burma, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania and the UAE, says report.

Red Sea crisis spilling over? Drone strike on commercial ship off Indian coast

Attack is believed to be a spillover from Red Sea crisis, where Yemen-based Houthi rebels have been targeting commercial ships they suspect to be heading to or from Israel.

After calls for Muslim Ocean & Afro-Asian Ocean, Pakistan has made peace with Indian Ocean

One of the most important points in Pakistan’s National Security Policy is the grudging acceptance of the name ‘Indian Ocean’.

The Dutch have apologised for their part in slave trade. Now, India must own up to its mistakes

‘No day goes’, the chronicler Shihabuddin al-Umari recorded during Alauddin Khalji’s rule from 1296-1316, ‘without the sale of thousands of slaves.’

Did you know there’s a giant ‘gravity hole’ in Indian Ocean? IISc scientists may have found out why

Located just south of Sri Lanka, it is here that Earth’s gravitational pull is weakest & sea level is 100 m lower than global average. Findings published in Geophysical Research Letters.

India’s missile test alert got Chinese research vessel to change course. Now it’s back

The Yuan Wang-class ship is attached to Chinese PLA's Strategic Support Force and tasked with tracking and supporting satellites and ICBMs.

Indian industry attends China’s Indian Ocean forum, but New Delhi missing in official capacity

Maldives, Australia deny official participation in the ‘China-Indian Ocean Region Development Cooperation Forum’ organised for the first time by the Xi Jinping government last week.

Days before India’s missile test, Chinese spy ship enters Indian Ocean

India’s missile test is likely to be fired from the Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha between 10 and 11 November.

Chinese research vessel Yuan Wang 5 has ‘slowed down’ but still en route Sri Lankan port

Yuan Wang 5 is currently 599 nautical miles away from Hambantota, having been at sea for 35 hours since departing the Chinese port of Taicang, according to latest data.

Tale of two ships – How Delhi is asserting Indianness of the Indian Ocean to China

A US Navy ship docked in an Indian port for the first time. And a Chinese ship couldn’t in Sri Lanka. New Delhi is finally pulling strings.

On Camera

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.