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On May 15, the weather office had announced the onset of monsoon over Kerala by May 31.

Over 2,000 people are feared dead after a landslide in Papua New Guinea, prompting the government to seek increased international aid amid challenging search and rescue efforts.

A military spokesman for Yemen's Houthi group has announced that the group had launched attacks on three ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.

The weather agency had in April said that the country as a whole is expected to get 106% of the long period average rainfall.

In December 2023, Somali pirates made headlines with a daring hijacking, showcasing their continued menace.

The uninterrupted coastline of the Indian Ocean's eastern seaboard is one of the most robbed of abundant fish stocks by IUU.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its April 2024 World Economic Outlook (WEO) raised the global growth forecast for 2024 to 3.2 per cent, an improvement from its earlier projections. Global headline inflation is expected to decline from an annual average of 6.8 per cent in 2023 to 5.9 per cent in 2024, and further to 4.5 per cent in 2025, according to IMF estimates.

After a scrub on Monday, SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Tuesday.

Connectivity is the key word in relations between Delhi and Colombo, in different areas: maritime, air, energy, trade, economic and people-to-people. Projects examined include the so-called

Singapore aims to access resource-rich Eurasia through Indias Chabahar port in Iran, managed by New Delhi. The port plays a vital role in establishing a trade corridor with Kazakhstan, connecting Southeast Asia and Central Asia.