Sri Lanka

[ad_1] Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Bishnu Pada Ray, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Andaman and Nicobar Islands has claimed that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, “gifted” the Coco Islands, a part of northern Andaman Islands to Myanmar. Ray, who is the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from the region also criticised the Congress for its allegedly “historical anti-India stance”, in an interview with ANI on April 14.…

[ad_1] Katchatheevu row: A former Sri Lankan envoy to India, Austin Fernando has accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of exploiting the Katchatheevu island issue as a “vote-puller” and cautioned that the Indian government could face issues if they were to backtrack after the general elections. In an interview with The Indian Express, Fernando said that if the India crosses the Sri Lankan maritime international boundary line, it…

[ad_1] Katchatheevu island row: Ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Government is trying to corner Congress on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s 1974 decision to hand over Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka,  prompting the Congress to come out with a sharp rebuke on the BJP goverment’s failure to check China’s aggression into the Indian territory.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and senior Congress leader P…

[ad_1] India seeks to explore a cobalt-rich region in the Indian Ocean known as the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount (AN Seamount). Photo: Google Maps Earlier this month, India applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISBA), Jamaica, for rights to explore two vast tracts in the Indian Ocean seabed that aren’t part of its jurisdiction. The application to explore one of these regions, a cobalt-rich crust long known as the Afanasy…