China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Mauritius on Tuesday for talks on upgrading strategic ties, days after ...

Mauritius, under a new government, is negotiating with the UK to regain sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, crucial for ...

Touch Of Mystic and Diego Garcia impressed when the horses were exercised here on Saturday (Mar. 8) morning.

In Episode 1615 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses changing geopolitical dynamics—past, ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean’s isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of it? Consult the map — it’s south of India and kinda sorta ...

India supports Mauritius in revisiting a deal with the UK over the Chagos Islands, discussed during Prime Minister Modi's visit to Mauritius. The UK had announced plans to transfer sovereignty of ...

with a clause inserted into the deal allowing it to keep using the military base it shares with the US on Diego Garcia. Mauritius will reportedly be paid £90 million a year, rising with inflation ...

Over the weekend government security officials briefed Bloomberg that the UK had no option but to give up sovereignty on the islands which house the crucial Diego Garcia UK/US airbase because they ...