Between globalisation and China’s influence, India cannot protect its strategy of local primacy read more

A study published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that the islands were littered with 238 tonnes of plastic, despite being home to around 500 people. read more

Cancellation rates at hotels across the country averaged 70 percent as of Saturday, with the capital Colombo taking a bigger hit, Sri Lanka’s Tourism Bureau Chairman Kishu Gomes told Reuters. read more

As Cyclone Fani pounded the Odisha coast on Friday, the name, which was suggested by Bangladesh, also evoked curiosity. read more

A depression over the Indian Ocean and southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified and moved further northwestwards, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Saturday. read more

Malaika Arora shared new pictures on Instagram in which she can be seen swimming in Indian Ocean. See pictures. read more

Former army chief General Dalbir Singh was on Thursday named as the Indian high commissioner India to Seychelles, an Indian Ocean island nation. read more

Police said 87 bomb detonators were found at the city’s main bus station, while an explosive went off near a church where scores were killed on Sunday when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse it. read more

A sense of unease pervaded the nation on Sunday following a period of relative calm in the decade since the end of a brutal conflict between the predominately Buddhist Sinhalese majority and mostly Hindu Tamil minority. No one has claimed responsibility... read more

Pedro Ortiz, international consultant, says the ever-growing city of Mumbai with a population of 1.2 crore now needs a new satellite city like Navi Mumbai read more

India supported Mauritius at the United Nations General Assembly and the ICJ in its quest to regain its territory read more

More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said. read more

This time the polling exercise, due to start on April 11 and be completed by May 19, will cost an unprecedented 500 billion rupees ($7 billion), according to the New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies. About $6.5 billion was spent during the US presidential... read more

India is on course to lease out a second Akula-II nuclear-powered attack submarine from Russia with the two countries hammering out a deal worth almost $3 billion on Thursday, two officials said on the condition of anonymity. read more

Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Tuesday cautioned against possible terrorists are being trained to carry out attacks from sea. read more