The Katchatheevu island, as shown by the red pin. (Google Earth image)New Delhi: A recent Right to Information query by the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president, K Annamalai, has rekindled a decades-old issue of the transfer of Katchatheevu (a...
Tharaka Balasuriya. (Photo: X/@TharakaBalasur1)New Delhi: Sri Lanka reaffirmed that it will not allow any other country to use its territory to harm India’s security interests, as a Chinese spy ship was seen in the Maldives waters on the same d...
The Xiang Yang Hong-03 at a port.New Delhi: The Maldives has confirmed the docking of the Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong-03 in Male, on Tuesday, which has raised security concerns in India, as India Sentinels had reported on Monday. The Indi...
Xiang Yang Hong-03. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi: The Maldives has granted permission for a Chinese research vessel, widely suspected of being a spy ship, to dock in its capital Male at the end of this month, despite pressure from India and other co...
The new Maldivian president, Mohamed Muizzu, is perceived as a pro-China leader.New Delhi: The new Maldivian government of the pro-China president, Mohamed Muizzu, has cancelled an agreement that the Maldives National Defence Force signed with the In...
Rajnath Singh defers his Sri Lanka visitNew Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who was scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on Saturday, had to defer his visit to later date.Citing unavoidable circumstances for the development, the defence ministry s...
New Delhi: The navies of India and Sri Lanka have begun their annual bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-2023 at Colombo from April The 6-day exercise is being conducted in two phases —- harbour and sea. It is the 10th edition of the exerci...
Colombo: The Indian Navy’s first indigenously built destroyer, INS Delhi visited Trincomalee in Sri Lanka from January 15 to January 17.During her stay at Trincomalee, the ship participated in a variety of activities with the Sri Lankan navy, w...
Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division. (Crown Group Defence photo)Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division, in this interview with Palak Sharma of ...
Yuan Wang-05. (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: China’s spy ship Yuan Wang-05 has re-entered the Indian Ocean Region, maritime data revealed. According to the maritime vessel-tracking portal marinetraffic.com, Yuan Wang-5 entered the Indian Ocean R...