Tag: India

By Nita Chicooree-Mercier

Indian Ocean Geopolitics & China’s OBOR

By Nita Chicooree-Mercier

We can hardly harbour expectations about our autonomous capacity to defend our outlying islands and territories, protect their environment, manage and tap their ocean resources. We rely on

 “The Indian Ocean is where the rivalry between the United States and China in the Pacific interlocks with the regional rivalry between China and India, and also with

The inability of government to clearly deploy its economic agenda and formulate the corresponding macro-economic policy framework is proving to be a serious stumbling block on the road

Following the terrorist attack by militants from Pakistan on an Indian army base near the LOC (Line of Control) in Uri, Kashmir, the Government of Mauritius has issued

One does not even have to know about, believe in, or understand ‘climate change’ to accept the reality of the shifts in weather that are taking place, and

On Friday last 15 April, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Japan, causing widespread injuries (with about 35 people dead) and property damage.

The foundation for the immediate future of Mauritius should have been laid down in 2015. Measures to this effect were announced first in the Budget Speech. Perhaps due

Paris is host as from this week to the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP 21) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It was probably in

The manner in which the upcoming double act between the US and China pans out (confrontational, competitive or shared partake) will set the backdrop for French and Indian

The commemorations around France’s three centuries of presence in Mauritius and, more generally, in the Indian Ocean are welcome and should be a moment to reflect not just

In answer to a question raised on 1st September by Hon Reza Uteem regarding a new Protocol said to have been finalized by the Minister of Good Governance

‘And I used to subscribe to Scientific American and I found that there were all these wonderful discoveries happening in biology.’ — Nobel laureate Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan On