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Image Credits- PRO Defence Gujarat Twitter handle- The Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad apprehended a Pakistani boat with 77 kg of heroine worth 400 crores, on 20 December 2021.

DRUG TRAFFICKING IN INDIA: MARITIME DIMENSIONS

Introduction  Earlier this month, on 04 December 2021, at an event to commemorate the 64th foundation day of the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the Honourable Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shrimati Nirmala Seetharaman,…

KUNMING COP15: MAPPING LINKAGES BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The birth of the current climate change regime was a product of a series of events that unfolded with the end of the Cold War and the simultaneous rise of the era of globalisation.  On the heels of an evolving understanding of the threat of…
MARINE POLICING AND MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA: EVOLVING DIMENSIONSImage Credits - Times of India

MARINE POLICING AND MARITIME SECURITY IN INDIA: EVOLVING DIMENSIONS

   Introduction                                                                                  While navies and coast guards dominate the discourse on maritime security, marine units of…
MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY IN INDIA: FISHERIES “MCS” A KEY ENABLER Captain Himadri Das

MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY IN INDIA: FISHERIES “MCS” A KEY ENABLER

Introduction  India has close to 2,60,000 registered fishing vessels.[1]  These include deep-sea fishing vessels (61), motorised mechanical vessels (62,130), motorised non-mechanical vessels (1,40,272) and non-motorised/traditional boats…
Buoy and lighthouse Aids to navigation AtoN

MARITIME AIDS TO NAVIGATION IN INDIA: STRENGTHENING MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS AND SECURITY

Introduction  On 02 March 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while inaugurating the Maritime India Summit 2021, highlighted the government’s plan to develop tourism around lighthouses.[1] Later that month, during his monthly interaction…

MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS IN INDIA: SHIFTING PARADIGMS

Introduction  Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) has been defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as “the effective understanding of any activity associated with the maritime environment that could impact upon the security,…
REFLECTIONS ON INDIA’S VIKRANT-CENTRIC CARRIER BATTLE GROUP

REFLECTIONS ON INDIA’S VIKRANT-CENTRIC CARRIER BATTLE GROUP

The successful completion of the five-day sea trials (from 04 to 08 August 2021) of the long-delayed indigenous aircraft carrier, the new Vikrant, is a seminal event and one that has been justifiably met with elation and a palpable sense of…
Climate-change: An Indian and An Israeli Perspective

NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE GEOSTRATEGIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-CHANGE: AN INDIAN AND AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE

Abstract The issue of climate change continues to hog the lime-light. Even though there is no unanimity in the scientific community about the rate at which climate change is actually occurring, there is no doubt that climate change is actually…

ENHANCING MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRENEAN REGIONS: INDIAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE

This research paper is a product of the research collaboration between the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi and the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, Haifa University (HMS), Israel, with the aim of providing policy recommendations…
STEMMING THE RISING TIDE — OCEANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE Saurabh ThakurPHOTO CREDITS- Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket/Getty Images

STEMMING THE RISING TIDE — OCEANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The crisis of anthropogenic climate change has been framed in myriad ways, often oscillating between a wide array of definitions, political ideologies, economic pathways, and moral principles.  Translating such a diverse and polarised debate…
The Fukushima Conundrum: Ocean Disposal of Nuclear Waste Saurabh Thakur

THE FUKUSHIMA CONUNDRUM: OCEAN DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE

The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Yoshihide Suga, recently made public a plan to discharge 1.25 million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, describing it as his country’s “most realistic…
Australia Economic strategy report- review

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…

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