Forcibly removed from the Chagos Archipelago more than 40 years ago, Chagos islanders protest outside the High Court in ...

Centuries before the world debated net-zero targets or climate resilience, Sri Lanka was living the principles of ...

On 21 April 2019, the Easter Sunday bombings led to lockdowns across the island, then a year later the pandemic hit. Even ...

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Examples of piracy in the Indian Ocean exist well into the 21st century, particularly off the coast of Somalia. ( How the "wickedest city on Earth" was sunk by an earthquake.

It has been called the “Galapagos of the Indian Ocean.” There are parallels, certainly. Of the 825 plant species found on Socotra today, 307—37 percent— are endemic, meaning they live ...

Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said Krishan Balendra, head of Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings was elected chairman at its annual ...

In 1965, shortly before granting Mauritius independence, Britain separated the Chagos Islands, renaming them the British Indian Ocean Territory, and paying £3 million to Mauritius.

Sri Lanka's services exports rose 22.3 percent from a year ago to 1,028.5 million US dollars in May 2025, helped by transport and logistics, the island's Export Development Board said.

Meanwhile, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was attending the Valdai Discussion Club in St Petersburg, Russia, ...

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...