Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday said the Indian Ocean is not only a 'crucial conduit' for international trade but also a space of increasing strategic importance. Speaking at ...

The United Arab Emirates participated in the 24th Council of Ministers Meeting and the 27th Committee of Senior Officials ...

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived in India’s Calicut on May 20, 1498, becoming the first European to reach India via ...

India is stepping up its game in the Indian Ocean, a region vital for global trade and its own economic growth. With China ...

With 95% of India’s trade and 80% of its crude oil supply flowing through the ocean, New Delhi sees unfettered access as a precondition for India’s rise. Indian officials also say a Chinese ...

Opening trade routes and establishing trade through the exchange ... This voyaged marked the height of Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean. 1415: The Emperor decides to move the Chinese court from ...

forestalling Kenya’s plans for establishing a new regional trade hub on the Indian Ocean. For decades, Kenya has planned a $25 billion economic corridor across its impoverished north ...

France’s pledge to confront its colonial legacy is being tested in Madagascar, where historic grievances are clashing with modern geopolitics over the Scattered Islands – tiny, uninhabited ...

The extremely remote islands, which are located in the southwest Indian Ocean about halfway between ... which Census Bureau data show had no trade with the U.S. last year either.