Development diplomacy remains India’s strongest soft-power tool in the Indian Ocean. The contrast between India’s ...

China’s growing deployment of survey vessels in the Indian Ocean underscores a reality only recently acknowledged in the ...

Higher sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean during the Last Interglacial weakened the South Asian monsoon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022; 119 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

Each year from June to September, a series of heavy rains known as monsoons sweep through the Indian subcontinent, providing relief from heat, irrigating the country’s farms and replenishing its ...

In the unease since May, New Delhi sees the tandem enmity of Pakistan and China, now joined by Bangladesh, as its biggest ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world’s most enigmatic destinations. Size-wise, it’s slightly smaller than Scotland, meaning you can ...

The Indian Ocean stretches from the southern tip of Africa to the Malacca Strait between Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia; and from the Persian Gulf to far south-western Australia: over 80 ...

The search covered an area virtually in the center of the Indian Ocean. The capsized hull was spotted and the transmitter detected more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of Sri Lanka, with ...

In recent decades, South Asian nations have emerged as pivotal destination points for major infrastructure investments from both India and China. Stretching from the shores of the Indian Ocean to the ...

The Maldives is an archipelagic state in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The beautiful landscapes and coral islands are a distinguishing feature of the country. In 2021, 1.32 million ...

Using precisely-dated coral records collected from the eastern Indian Ocean, an international team of researchers were able to measure variations in IDO over five (non-consecutive) centuries ...