Ocean Centres to be launched today
The Ocean Centres Bangladesh, a multi-stakeholder platform to advance safety culture to promote a sustainable blue economy and marine conservation, is scheduled to be launched in Dhaka today...
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Modi renews ties with Maldives, pledges $565m
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi wrapped up a visit to the Maldives on Saturday, renewing ties by offering infrastructure projects and vital financial assistance to the cash-strapped Indian Ocean nation...
Bangladesh Maritime Univ observes World Oceans Day 2025
Bangladesh Maritime University has observed the World Oceans Day 2025 with the theme 鈥榳onder: sustaining what sustains us鈥� at the BMU at Mirpur in Dhaka.
UNGCBN hosts IOCI for promoting sustainable ocean economies across global south
Bangladesh has recently been selected as one of seven emerging ocean economies to pioneer the Ocean Centres Initiative 鈥� a global effort to foster safer and more sustainable ocean economies in the global south...
Four heavy US bombers stationed at key Indian Ocean base: AFP image analysis
Four US Stratofortress bombers are currently stationed at the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean, according to an AFP analysis of satellite imagery, as the conflict between Israel and Iran extended to its fifth straight day.
Yunus cancels France visit as bilateral talks request declined
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 planned visit to France next month to join the United Nations Ocean Conference has been cancelled as Dhaka鈥檚 request for a bilateral meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron on the...
Bangladesh foreign adviser for maritime connectivity, reducing trade barrier
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.
Bangladesh probes spate of turtle deaths
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.
Mayotte families left homeless by cyclone leave shelters
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 faces environment, biodiversity crisis after cyclone
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.
Tears, prayers as Asia mourns tsunami dead 20 years on
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...
Lanka navy to aid boat of 100 Rohingya refugees
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...
Melting sea ice in Antarctica causes ocean storms: scientists
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 die as Cyclone Chido devastates Mayotte
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.
Dozens of underage migrants rescued in Mediterranean
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...
2024鈥檚 record ocean heat revved up Atlantic hurricane wind speeds: study
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...
UK hands Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius
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 test fires ICBM missile into Pacific
China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades...
BSMRMU observes World Oceans Day
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University observed the World Oceans Day on Sunday on its Dhaka campus....
Maldives to ban tourists from Israel to protest Gaza war
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�.
Plastics: an ocean justice crisis
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...
Bangladesh joins confce on drug trafficking in Mauritius
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...
Arafat urges Mauritius to invest in SEZ
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.....
Ocean summit wraps with $11.5 billion in pledges: Greek minister
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 FM attends 鈥�9th Our Ocean Conference鈥� in Greece
Bangladesh foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has attended the 鈥�9th Our Ocean Conference Greece 2024鈥� held in Athens on April 16-17.....