NEW DELHI, (ANI) – The Indian government played a quiet but crucial role in the background of the Chagos archipelago agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. India firmly backed the ...

Coverage of the second day of debate in the House of Lords on the committee stage of the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill, on Tuesday 25 November.

On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of Ceylon. They were unaware that the full strength of the Japanese First Air ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a combined value of $1.5 billion for construction, renovation ...

British American Tobacco BATS-0.18%decrease; red down pointing triangle said it sold a 2.5% shareholding in Indian conglomerate ITC for 1.05 billion pounds ($1.42 billion), more than initially planned ...

The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the controversial, multi-billion pound move survived an eleventh-hour legal challenge and ...

May 22 (UPI) --The British government signed-off Thursday on ceding the Chagos Islands back over to Mauritius after a last-minute court ruling delayed the transfer of international territory. "The ...

The Air Force has deployed F-15 fighter jets for a force protection mission on Diego Garcia, Pacific Air Forces confirmed Tuesday. The strategically important island in the Indian Ocean has served as ...

Without stronger commitments and better data, the path to true recovery for sharks like the shortfin mako remains uncertain. The new rules offer hope... but also a warning that time may be running out ...

At the most recent round of Indian Ocean tuna talks, countries adopted measures to curb shark finning, expand the scope of bans that prohibit fishers from holding on to sharks caught as bycatch and ...

An Indian experiment module fell out of space and crashed into the Indian Ocean in recent days, just months after launching into orbit, but it wasn't because of a failure, Indian space officials said.