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Maldives presidential race heads for run-off

Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 22:21

Maldives presidential election is heading for a second round run off as no candidate has managed to obtain 50 percent of the vote, the latest data reported by the media showed here Saturday.

Australia ends asylum boat stand-off with Indonesia

Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 12:03

Australia said on Saturday it will take a boatload of asylum-seekers at the centre of a high-seas stand-off with Indonesia to its Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island.

Violence mars Madagascar polls

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 19:11

Violence broke out as Madagascar voted on Friday in crunch elections to restore democracy after a 2009 coup, leaving a senior government official dead and a polling station torched.

Australian naval force nabs 9 suspected pirates

Last Updated: Sunday, October 20, 2013, 18:52

A counter-piracy international naval task force says an Australian naval team in the Indian Ocean has captured nine suspected pirates sought after attacks on a supertanker and a fishing vessel last week.

Encircling India by string of pearls an illusion: Chinese scholar

Last Updated: Monday, July 29, 2013, 15:47

The development of a number of strategic ports in South Asia, like Gwadar in Pakistan, by China is not to contain India but to protect the country`s own "legitimate economic interests" in the Indian Ocean, a Chinese scholar said.

Susmit Sen`s last song with Indian Ocean in `Satyagraha`

Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 14:27

Susmit Sen, the lead guitarist and a co-founder of Indian Ocean, has recorded a song for ‘Satyagraha’, his last as the part of indie-pop band.

Mauritius lauds India`s efforts to fight piracy

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 22:27

Mauritius on Thursday lauded India`s contribution in fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean Rim region.

India for common maritime security regime in Indian Ocean region

Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 19:55

India Thursday called for a common maritime security enforcement regime and liberalisation of visa regimes to boost trade and investment in the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) countries.

Notification in AP over illegal maritime entrants

Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 17:17

Amid safety concerns of Asylum seekers travelling to Australia, the Andhra Pradesh government has issued a notification that discourages the illegal maritime entrants.

Indian Ocean bat for circus animals

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 15:01

Popular rock band Indian Ocean has shot a video protesting against the use of animals in circuses on the occasion of World Music Day on June 21.

Susmit Sen bids adieu to Indian Ocean

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 17:55

Susmit Sen, the lead guitarist and one of the co-founders of Indian Ocean, has quit the band.

UK court rules against evicted Chagos islanders

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 19:49

Britain forced thousands of people to leave the tropical archipelago in the 1960s and 1970s so that the US military could build an air base on Diego Garcia.