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FLOODING SUNDERBANS RISING SEA LEVEL IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH, CREDITS- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

CLIMATE RISKS TO INDIA’S HOLISTIC MARITIME SECURITY PART 1: RISING SEA LEVEL

In recent decades, climate change has evolved from a supposed distant problem for future generations to a major imminent security threat for all nations worldwide.[1] Climate-change-induced food and water shortages, combined with sea level…

INDIA’S FOOD SECURITY AND THE MARITIME-IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE — THE LOCUST-INTERMEDIARIES

Attaining food security for India continues to remain a daunting task. Since the Green revolution of the 1960s, the country’s agricultural policies have led to an increase in agricultural productivity and overall food-production. However,…

IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND OTHER VIRAL OUTBREAKS ON BOARD SHIPS

Introduction On 12 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic[1]. Two significant concerns were — and remain — first, the speed and scale of transmission, and second, the…

INDIA'S PROPOSED MARITIME STRATEGY

India’s maritime strategy must necessarily be the aggregate of the individual strategies that the country formulates and executes for the preservation, pursuit, promotion, and protection of the six principal maritime interests of India, viz., 1.…

EXAMINING FOOD-SECURITY AS A DRIVER OF JAPAN’S LONG-TERM PRESENCE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: PART 1

Jay Maniyar, Research Associate, National Maritime Foundation

PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF INDIA’S CRITICAL MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE: PART 1

Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd)

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS- GLUG GLUG GLUG.... REALLY? SIGNIFICANCE OF CARRIER BORNE AIRPOWER FOR INDIA

In his recent article published by the Lowy Institute, titled “Glug, Glug, Glug: India’s interest in unsinkable Aircraft Carriers”, David Brewster[1], probes India’s medium term plan to develop into a three carrier fleet. Brewster cites…

COMMUNITY-ENGAGED MARITIME SECURITY: BEYOND 'EYES AND EARS'

In March 2018, as per media reports, Neil Basu, the Scotland Yard’s newly appointed Indian-origin Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for counter-terrorism, launched a new campaign to urge the public to fight terrorism. According…

MARITIME COOPERATION AS A THRUST AREA BETWEEN INDIA AND INDONESIA

The upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, to Indonesia (later this month),is reflective of the strong desire of both the countries to work more closely together, in the face of the ‘rapidly evolving strategic realities’…

Navies of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia participating in the second phase of the 24th edition of the Malabar naval exercise, in the Arabian Sea

Image courtesy- Indian Navy Website https://indiannavy.nic.in/content/malabar-exercise-20

REVISITNG ‘SAGAR’ – INDIA'S TEMPLATE FOR COOPERATION IN THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

The month of March 2018 marks three years since the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi first enunciated India’s vision for the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) commonly known by its acronym - SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region). In…

MARITIME DIMENSION OF HYBRID WARFARE – THE INDIAN CONTEXT

(This is a revised extract of chapter titled “India’s Strategic Landscape, Hybrid Threats and Likely Operational Scenarios” jointly authored by Gurmeet Kanwal, Syed Ata Hasnain, Gurpreet S Khurana and Manmohan Bahadur, in Satish Kumar…

BIMSTEC: WHERE INDIA’S ‘NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST’ AND ‘ACT EAST’ MEET

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was established in 1997. Its members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. On 11 August 2017, the 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial…