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Research explains how climate change can trigger extreme weather conditions in the Indian Ocean
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Researchers studied how climate change can cause seawater temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than that on the other side.
Condé Nast Traveller gets ‘fact-checked’ by ocean lovers, gets slammed for ‘negative’ post on whale sharks
Travel magazine gets criticized by ocean lovers for calling a whale shark 'hideous' and 'sea monster'.
Maldives govt drafting bill to outlaw anti-India campaign supported by pro-China ex-President Yameen: Details
The new law will attract a penalty of 20,000 Maldivian Rufiyaa, besides a jail term of 6 months or house arrest of 1 year.
FT refers to India as the ‘weakest link’ in the Quad. How their quoted expert denies conclusion and how they got it massively wrong
Quoting a few experts in foreign policy, FT declared that India is the 'weakest link' of the informal alliance as it had failed to provide necessary vaccines to the nations as it had agreed to in the Quad summit that was held in March.
China’s ‘out-of-control’ rocket debris disintegrates over the Indian Ocean, lands near the Maldives
Notably, the rocket which is uncontrollably falling back to Earth is the same space module whose launch was gloated upon by a Chinese Communist Party body to mock India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Sri Lanka asks ship carrying nuclear material for China to leave Hambantota, had docked after developing technical snag
A top official of the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority informed, “The ship failed to declare its dangerous cargo - uranium hexafluoride and we decided to order it to leave our waters immediately.”
US Navy boasts that it broke Indian maritime rules, conducts FONOP off Lakshadweep Islands inside India’s EEZ
The US Navy has boasted that they had carried out Freedom of Navigation operations 130 nautical miles off Lakshadweep, inside India's EEZ.
Cyclone Nivar is fast approaching Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and parts of Andhra: All you need to know
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Cyclone Nivar is expected to his coastal states in next few hours, currently travelling at 11 KMPH, it may cause severe damage to houses, roads, crops, electricity and communications lines.
China deploys dozens of underwater drones in the Indian Ocean Region, Indian navy alerted: Report
Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh in the month of December had confirmed that the Navy forces had chased away Chinese oceanic research vessel Shi Yan-1 after it was found indulging in suspicious activity near the strategically located Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.
Ten things India must do to stop being a soft state
India is overly defensive. Despite its massive economic and military power, it does not respond to grave provocations (26/11, for example). It does not retaliate when attacked. It tolerates countless attacks on its citizens and affronts to its prestige.