Banners decrying the name change from Port Blair to Sri Vijaya Puram were a common sight around the city for nearly two weeks after the announcement. Credit: Leesha K. Nair Across the capital city of ...

Dr Amit Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the School of National Security Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Vadodara. The 1,000th anniversary of Rajendra Chola’s famous naval trip to the ...

India’s “Look East” policy was launched in 1991 by then-Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to increase cooperation with the Southeast Asian nations. The term “Act East” got significant attention when then-U ...

When a strange white sphere appeared in the skies above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in January 2022, it swiftly became a talking point in this sleepy Indian Ocean archipelago of 430,000 people.

Strategic islands played a key role in establishing the British empire’s dominance over the Indian Ocean region. Through a ring of bases and naval presence on islands, the British essentially ...

Editor’s Note: This is the nineteenth installment of “Southern (Dis)Comfort,” a series from War on the Rocks and the Stimson Center. The series seeks to unpack the dynamics of intensifying competition ...

Just over a year ago, the December 26 tsunami devastated the Andaman and Nicobar islands, a low-lying and mostly uninhabited chain of 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. Officially, more than 3,000 ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has raised a 'cyclone alert' for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands due to a ...

A Japanese tanker collided with a small Indian vessel off the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, spilling over 4,500 tonnes of oil into the Indian Ocean. Concerned about the effect of the spill on the ...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday (July 31, 2025) conducted its first-ever search operation in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in connection with the Andaman Nicobar State Cooperative Bank ...