Bangladesh foreign affair adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday laid emphasis on facilitating maritime connectivity and reducing trade barrier to ensure a brighter, more prosperous future for all nations of the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Bangladeshi scientists are probing the deaths of more than 80 turtles found washed up on the beach over the past week, a government marine research institute said Thursday. Olive ridley sea turtles are a relatively small and abundant species found in tropical waters the world over and can live for up to 50 years in the wild.
Two weeks after a devastating cyclone hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, the atmosphere at Le Manguier school in the capital Mamoudzou is tinged with sadness and resignation...
Mayotte has changed beyond recognition since a cyclone devastated the Indian Ocean territory, sparking an environment and biodiversity crisis that could last for a decade or more, scientists say.
Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 2,20,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 navy said on Thursday it was heading to aid a group of around 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island...
The record-breaking retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2023 has led to more frequent storms over newly exposed parts of the Southern Ocean, according to a study published Wednesday...
At least 14 people were killed in Mayotte when a fierce cyclone battered the French Indian Ocean territory, authorities said Sunday, with officials warning it will take days to know the full toll.
Rescue ship Ocean Viking on Tuesday pulled 48 mostly underage migrants from the Mediterranean off the Libyan, the aid group that operates the vessel said on Wednesday...
Human-driven warming of ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds of every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a new analysis released Wednesday, highlighting how climate change is amplifying the destructive power of storms...
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what president Joe Biden called a 鈥榟istoric agreement鈥� will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base with...
China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University observed the World Oceans Day on Sunday on its Dhaka campus....
The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the luxury tourist hot spot, the office of the president said Sunday, announcing a national rally in 鈥榮olidarity with Palestine鈥�.
AS THE fourth negotiating session on the United Nations plastics treaty comes to a close, pressing questions loom: Will world leaders finalise a robust agreement by the end of this year that effectively halts plastic pollution at its source? Despite the fortitude of countries within...
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat joined the first ministerial conference on drug trafficking and substance abuse in the Western Indian Ocean in Mauritius...
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, now on a visit to Mauritius, on Wednesday urged the Indian Ocean country to invest in the special economic zone in Bangladesh.....
An annual international summit on saving the oceans on Wednesday concluded in Athens with over $11.5 billion in pledges, the Greek foreign minister said.....
Bangladesh foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has attended the 鈥�9th Our Ocean Conference Greece 2024鈥� held in Athens on April 16-17.....