Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron arrives in Mauritius’s Port Louis

INS Tir in a joint surveillance with a Mauritian Dornier-228. (India Sentinels photo via special arrangement.)New Delhi: The Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron (1TS), comprising INS Tir and ICGS Sarathi (an Indian Coast Guard vessel in ...

Mauritius’s Agaléga Island: Is India building a secret military base there?

The distance between Mauritius’s Agaléga and mainland India is a little over 3,000 kilometres at the nearest points. (Google Maps)Agaléga Island comprises two islets, shaped like an exclamation mark (!) – a long and thin nor...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurate new airstrip and jetty at Mauritius’s Agaléga Island

Narendra Modi (R) with Pravind Jugnauth. (File photo)New Delhi: In a virtual ceremony, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, jointly unveiled an airstrip and a jetty on the Agaléga Island in ...