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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicIndian Ocean

Topic: Indian Ocean

Chinese research vessel heading to Maldives again, 3rd port call likely in island country this year

Research vessel Xiang Yang Hong 03, that can collect data for both civilian and military purposes, is on its way to the Maldives. It had earlier docked in the island country twice.

India wants to dig deep into metal-rich Indian Ocean seabed. All about deep-sea mining

Carlsberg Ridge & Afanasy-Nikitin Seamount in Indian Ocean are of New Delhi's interest for which it has submitted applications for exploration to International Seabed Authority.

China’s growing influence in Indian Ocean is worrying. It harms the region’s stability

The 99-year lease of Hambantota to China, amid Sri Lanka’s economic challenges, underscored Beijing’s weaponisation of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Gujaratis dominated Malaysia trade in 16th century. Cambay & Malacca were interdependent

Radhika Seshan's 'Empires of the Sea: A Human History of the Indian Ocean World' sets out to map our age-old connections with the seas, tracing maritime linkages from the Harappan period all the way to the long colonial era.

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.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.