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FLOATING OIL-STORAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY — PART-1
The two parts over which this article has been penned seek to analyse the manner in which the intersection of two extraordinary events — the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil-price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia — produced a sequence of…

HONOURING THE SEAFARER
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
― Samuel Johnson
The quintessential truth underpinning this famous statement by the renowned eighteenth-century British poet, playwright,…

PLANETARY HEALTH: COVID-19’s WARNING TO THE WORLD
Key Points>>>
Outbreaks of infectious diseases are on the rise and are likely to become more common as human populations destroy habitats, forcing wildlife into closer proximity to humans.
The field of planetary health is gaining…

MISSION SAGAR: MAINTAINING A POSITIVE AND FAVOURABLE MARITIME ENVIRONMENT IN THE FACE OF THE COVID PANDEMIC
Introduction
India has been providing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) assistance to nations as “its sense of obligation, and historical experience require it to demonstrate empathy for the victims of disasters in all…

JAPAN AND THE JMSDF AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The COVID-19 or the Coronavirus pandemic — a virus that originated in Wuhan in the Peoples’ Republic of China in late last year — claimed a handful of lives in its initial days and months, but has since spread rapidly across the globe…



MITIGATING COVID-19 : THE INDIAN NAVY IN THE VANGUARD — AS ALWAYS
This article seeks to provide the lay reader an insight into the Indian Navy’s centrality and the positivity of its contribution — at the strategic, operational and tactical levels — to India’s maritime efforts to mitigate the adverse…

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…
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BAY OF BENGAL MARITIME WORKSHOP- CHALLENGES EMERGING OUT OF THE COVID ENVIRONMENT
This program’s primary objective was to engage Bay of Bengal littoral states, South and Southeast Asian states, and with non-regional states to examine and provide policy insights on the challenges facing the Bay of Bengal. With an overt…