Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise ...

In recent years, maritime security in the Western Indian Ocean 1 (WIO) has risen to the forefront of global priorities, ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

While it will take days, if not months, to find out the details of the April-May 2025 India-Pakistan conflagration, what should be clear to Indian strategists and policymakers is that a country that ...

India’s landward focus, away from the maritime arena, helps Chinese ambitions in the Indian Ocean region and the broader Indo-Pacific. ... However, fault lines remain.

In the past few years, Rahul Gandhi’s Indian National Congress (INC) has been constantly trying to use caste fault lines for political mobilisation by campaigning for a caste census.

Yunus had described India’s northeastern region as "landlocked" and called Bangladesh the "only guardian of the ocean" in the area — a statement perceived in New Delhi as undermining Indian ...

The concept of MAHASAGAR is also an expression of India’s growing economic and political heft and its intention to extend its arc of cooperation beyond the immediate environs of the Indian Ocean ...

Bangladesh’s escalating military reliance on China presents critical fault lines that jeopardise its national sovereignty, economic resilience, and regional relationships. Beijing has strategically ...

The directives come at a time of shifting geopolitical fault lines in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Admiral Tripathi’s agenda zeroes in on the Navy’s core ...

China’s growing influence in Indian Ocean littoral nations is leading to the emergence of a new geopolitical theatre in the region. India is legitimately concerned by the development.

Over the past decade, China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and four of the most important maritime chokepoints.