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MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF- 19 MAY 2021 - 03 JUNE 2021

In another recent environmental threat, authorities tackled a long ongoing fire on board a ship awaiting permission to unload Sri Lanka-bound cargo, off Colombo. The Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl was carrying 25 metric tons of nitric…

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DECODING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN INDIA – PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS

In the current era of the Anthropocene, humans have become the major driver for planetary changes in the physical, chemical and biological properties of the air, land and the ocean. The exact year/ decade of the beginning of this epoch is…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 04 MAY 2021 – 18 MAY 2021

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zones' plans to abandon its container terminal project at Yangon, Myanmar. This has been preceded by the loss of the contract for the ONGC Videsh Ltd-discovered Farzad-B gas field off the Iranian coast. Together,…

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘AUSTRALIA ECONOMIC STRATEGY REPORT’

The “Australia Economic Strategy (AES) Report” has been put together by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in collaboration with (Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler) KPMG under the leadership of former Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, who retired…

THE NMF SIGNS MOU WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRALIA-INDIA ENGAGEMENT

We are pleased to announce the signing, on 12 May 2021, of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Maritime Foundation and the Institute of Australia-India Engagement, Queensland, Australia. The MoU was signed on behalf of the…

IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA OF NOCTILUCA SCINTILLANS IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN

In October 2020, bright blue sparkling waters were reported on the shores of the western Indian coasts, which were presented with excitement by residents of coastal cities and tourists in the face of the cold and demeaning fervour of the ongoing…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 19 APRIL 2021 – 03 MAY 2021

In a stunning display of capacity-building, China’s naval shipbuilding programme commissioned three new vessels in a single day. Meanwhile, in India, the Indian Navy has launched Operation Samudra Setu-II to transport liquid medical-grade…

APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR TO THE CYBER SECURITY DOMAIN

Anyone who has spent a significant period of time within the Information Security (InfoSec) industry would recognise the industry’s felt need to reinvent itself at regular intervals. This author has always found this to be a rather defeatist…

ROLE OF MARINE INSURANCE IN OIL POLLUTION IN INDIA

All too often, “the asserted divide between public and private international law suggests that the two occupy different, mutually exclusive domains. On the one hand, public international law comprises the legally binding rules and principles…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 12 APRIL 2021 – 18 APRIL 2021

Following Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's allusion of the Indo-Pacific as an “Asian NATO,” External Affairs Minister, Shri S Jaishankar, reassured his counterpart that Indian interests in this concept are driven by China's illegal…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 05 APRIL 2021 – 11 APRIL 2021

A Freedom of Navigation patrol by the USS John Paul Jones through India’s Exclusive Economic Zone, without the prior consent of the Indian government shows that the two QUAD partners still have to iron-out fundamental issues vital to their…

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PEERING DOWN THE HATCH: A QUICK PEEK AT INDIA'S SUBMARINE-WORLD

A Hindi translation of this article has been published in the April-May 2021 issue of “Defence Monitor” (Vol 9, Issue-4), a leading Hindi language defence magazine published in India. This English version is published with permission…