While there is strong bipartisan support for a robust U.S. presence in the Pacific, the increasingly competitive global ...

The move underscores the importance of protecting the Indian Ocean region through which 95% of the country’s trade moves amid ...

Mayotte typifies what is happening to small island nations and the Global South. Low-lying nations are in the eye of the storm and are subject to coastal erosion and rising tides. Indeed, less ...

A fter invasive rats caused their disappearance from the island of Kamaka over a century ago, Polynesian storm-petrels have ...

India's Navy will commission three major combat platforms on January 15, enhancing self-reliance in shipbuilding amid rising Chinese influence in the IOR. NEW DELHI: India’s shipbuilding prowess ...

India announced immediate relief assistance worth USD 500000 on Thursday to Vanuatu in the wake of a devastating earthquake ...

Nitish Kumar Reddy, with the Indian cricket team in dire straits against Australia on the third day of the fourth Test in Melbourne, turned out to be India's saviour with a gritty century at the ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to mark ...

The lack of tsunami early warning systems in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami had made the disaster's impact worse. No seismic stations covered the entire area, and no telecommunication ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third ...