Oman offered to sell Gwadar, then a small fishing village, to India in the 1950s. The government led by Jawaharlal Nehru declined the offer, and Pakistan in 1958 bought it for three million pounds. This is the story of how Gwadar, now a strategic port, could have been India's and why Nehru might have turned down the offer.
Following the death of her father, a mother brings her toddler son to the Middle East, determined to instil in him her most treasured life skill – a love of travel
The Indian Navy carried out 18 rescue ops in the Arabian Sea since mid-December under its Operation Sankalp, launched after attacks on merchant ships in the Gulf of Oman in June 2019.
Nation News: Since December 2023, the Indian Navy has been actively engaged in responding to the ramifications of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the maritime domain, particularly in the Red Sea corridor