Open-source, ship-tracking data showed China has recently sent three research vessels to the Indian Ocean to survey the strategic waters that border its competitor India. All three vessels were ...

A decade after the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, a new search effort may finally provide answers. A recent proposal by the underwater robotics company Ocean Infinity could see the ...

Before installing a warning system, experts need to identify and map areas of risk. Much of this preliminary work has been done in the Indian Ocean; some needs more effort. The work includes ...

Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The special issue is titled “Indian Ocean Literary Circularities” (Volume 74, Issue 2, June 1, 2022) and is co-edited by Dr. Françoise Lionnet, Professor at Harvard University. The collection ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

The importance of the Indian Ocean—long viewed by India as its background ... according to Newsweek's map of American and Chinese bases around the world. David Lammy, Britain's foreign secretary ...