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‘Madagascar wants to deepen defence relations with India’ Sun Online Desk 11th February, 2021 10:16:06 Complementing India’s efforts to expand its presence in the western Indian Ocean, a region of increasing strategic significance for global powers, the island nation of Madagascar is pitching for stronger defence ties with India, saying the latter provides a security umbrella to countries in the region. Visiting Madagascar defence minister Richard Rakotonirina tells Sachin Parashar his co...

Posted on December 23rd, 2020 KAMALIKA PIERIS One solution to the problem of a future Indian Ocean war is for Sri Lanka to return to the policy of Non Alignment. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) started at Bandung Conference of 1955, during the time of Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike. It became a formal organization in 1961. Under the Chairpersonship of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka helped this movement reach its zenith in the mid 1970s.  Sri Lanka hel...