India has sought to counter China as Beijing grows its influence in India's neighbourhood through investments and development projects in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan ...

The international date line is the "line" that runs through the middle of the Pacific Ocean about 180 degrees ... around the world from the prime meridian, which is located at zero degrees ...

Pip Hare had been aiming to become the first woman to complete the race twice. Credit: Pip Hare Ocean Racing A sailor from Poole has finally reached land almost two weeks after a snapped mast ...

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 ...

BJP criticizes Congress for displaying a distorted map of India at an event in Karnataka's Belagavi, showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan. They accuse Congress of engaging in appeasement politics ...

2024 was a big year for the navigation software space, with Google becoming the most active player in a market where rivals were supposed to spend big dollars. Apple has been almost dormant in ...

According to BJP and its ally JD(S) in Karnataka, the Indian map featured on the posters omits the Gilgit region of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir as well as the Aksai Chin region, currently under the ...

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 ...