scholarly journals CHINA’S VISION OF REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY, ECONOMIC CORRIDOR AND DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR BANGLADESH

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
AKKAS AHAMED ◽  
NUR HOSSAIN ◽  
MOHAMMED AMINUR RAHAMAN
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Trade And Investment

Geopolitically South Asia is very important for China’s vision of regional connectivity, trade and development cooperation. In terms of Sino-South Asian geopolitical and economic relations, it might be said that the Bay of Bengal is very important, because it is connected with Andaman Sea, Malacca Straits, which has direct link with South Asia and South East Asia. Both China and India are very interested in the Bay of Bengal for mineral resources which has an easy link with Bangladesh, Myanmar and Indian Ocean. Through the Bay of Bengal, China wants direct regional connectivity between China and Indian Ocean through either South East Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar) or Rakhine state of Myanmar for the expansion of its trade and development cooperation. This study has dealt with the importance of South Asia in light of the China’s geopolitical desire, trade and investment, oil and gas, development cooperation and regional connectivity in South Asia including Bangladesh. It is a qualitative study in nature, which is based on primary and secondary data. Many geopolitical issues of China, South Asia and Bangladesh have been discussed in this study. The finding is that the relationship Between China and South Asia in light of the China’s vision of trade and investment, economic corridor, and development cooperation is, of course, pivotal for both regions.

Description of Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal with a review of its northern Indian Ocean congeners

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (2) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
PETER R. LAST ◽  
BERNARD SÉRET ◽  
GAVIN J.P. NAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
New Material ◽  
Colour Morphs

A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov., is described from 5 preserved specimens, and images and tissue samples of additional material, collected from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. This species co-occurs in the eastern sector of the northern Indian Ocean with two poorly defined congeners, R. annandalei Norman and R. lionotus Norman, which have been misidentified and confused with Indo-Pacific congeners since they were first described in 1926. Norman’s species are rediagnosed based on limited new material and a re-examination of the types. In the western sector of the northern Indian Ocean, Rhinobatos annandalei has been confused in recent literature with the sympatric R. punctifer Compagno and Randall, which is represented by four primary colour morphs, including a white-spotted colour morph resembling R. annandalei. Rhinobatos punctifer also displays strong intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism in some body dimensions. These four species of Rhinobatos have unique MtDna sequences and belong to a clade of Indo-West Pacific species that are morphologically similar. Despite the relatively small numbers of specimens available for investigation, these species exhibit some clear differences in body proportions, meristics and squamation. Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. differs from its northern Indian Ocean congeners through a combination of a relatively narrow disc and mouth, high vertebral count, long snout, low dorsal fins, and being largely plain coloured. A new lectotype and a paralectotype are designated for the syntypes of R. annandalei, and the four primary colour forms of R. punctifer, the plain, white-spotted and ocellated morphs, are described and the three nominal species rediagnosed. A key is provided to the four known members of the genus in the northern Indian Ocean. 

scholarly journals ΔR Correction Values for the Northern Indian Ocean

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2A) ◽  
pp. 483-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koushik Dutta ◽  
Ravi Bhushan ◽  
B L K Somayajulu
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Northern Arabian Sea ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
Thermocline Ventilation ◽  
Ventilation Rates ◽  
Made In

Apparent marine radiocarbon ages are reported for the northern Indian Ocean region for the pre-nuclear period, based on measurements made in seven mollusk shells collected between 1930 and 1954. The conventional 14C ages of these shells range from 693 ± 44 to 434 ± 51 BP in the Arabian Sea and 511 ± 34 to 408 ± 51 BP in the Bay of Bengal. These ages correspond to mean ΔR correction values of 163 ± 30 yr for the northern Arabian Sea, 11 ± 35 yr for the eastern Bay of Bengal (Andaman Sea) and 32 ± 20 yr for the southern Bay of Bengal. Contrasting reservoir ages for these two basins are most likely due to differences in their thermocline ventilation rates.

scholarly journals Deoxygenation in Marginal Seas of the Indian Ocean

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wajih A. Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Oxygen Content ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Marginal Seas ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Oxygen Minimum

This article describes oxygen distributions and recent deoxygenation trends in three marginal seas – Persian Gulf and Red Sea in the Northwestern Indian Ocean (NWIO) and Andaman Sea in the Northeastern Indian Ocean (NEIO). Vertically mixed water column in the shallow Persian Gulf is generally well-oxygenated, especially in winter. Biogeochemistry and ecosystems of Persian Gulf are being subjected to enormous anthropogenic stresses including large loading of nutrients and organic matter, enhancing oxygen demand and causing hypoxia (oxygen < 1.4 ml l–1) in central and southern Gulf in summer. The larger and deeper Red Sea is relatively less affected by human activities. Despite its deep water having remarkably uniform thermohaline characteristics, the central and southern Red Sea has a well-developed perennial oxygen minimum at mid-depths. The available data point to ongoing deoxygenation in the northern Red Sea. Model simulations show that an amplified warming in the marginal seas of the NWIO may cause an intensification of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Increases in particulate organic carbon and decreases in oxygen contents of the outflows may also have a similar effect. In the Andaman Sea, waters above the sill depth (∼1.4 km) have characteristics similar to those in the Bay of Bengal, including an intense OMZ. As in the case of the Bay of Bengal, oxygen concentrations within the Andaman Sea OMZ appear to have declined slightly but significantly between early 1960s and 1995. The exceedingly isothermal and isohaline water that fills the deep Andaman Basin is also remarkably homogenous in terms of its oxygen content. A very slight but statistically significant decrease in oxygen content of this water also seems to have occurred over three decades preceding 1995. New information is badly needed to assess the extent of further change that may have occurred over the past 25 years. There have been some reports of coastal “dead zones” having developed in the Indian Ocean marginal seas, but they are probably under-reported and the effects of hypoxia on the rich and diverse tropical ecosystems – coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves – in these seas remain to be investigated.

Review of the Indian Ocean spikefish genus Mephisto (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4802 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
KATHERINE E. BEMIS ◽  
JAMES C. TYLER ◽  
PETER N. PSOMADAKIS ◽  
LAUREN NEWELL FERRIS ◽  
APPUKUTTANNAIR BIJU KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Micro Ct ◽  
Tooth Replacement ◽  
Color Photograph ◽  
Replacement Pattern ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Ct Data

We redescribe the triacanthodid spikefish Mephisto fraserbrunneri Tyler 1966 based upon eight specimens (five newly reported herein) and the first color photographs of freshly collected specimens; these data are compared with that of the single specimen of the recently described M. albomaculosus Matsuura, Psomadakis, and Mya Than Tun 2018. Both species are found in the Indian Ocean, with M. fraserbrunneri known from the Arabian Sea off the east coast of Africa to the eastern Bay of Bengal, and M. albomaculosus confirmed only from the type locality in the Andaman Sea (a color photograph of an individual M. cf. albomaculosus from the Bay of Bengal that was not retained is also presented). We describe and diagnose the genus Mephisto and provide a key to the two species based upon all available specimens. We also provide a distribution map for both species and summarize literature records. Using micro-CT data, we show that Mephisto fraserbrunneri replaces teeth intraosseously, which suggests this tooth replacement pattern is plesiomorphic for Tetraodontiformes. 

scholarly journals Convicts, Commodities, and Connections in British Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1789–1866

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (S27) ◽  
pp. 205-227
Author(s):  
Clare Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Company Governance ◽  
Convict Transportation ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article explores the transportation of Indian convicts to the port cities of the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean during the period 1789 to 1866. It considers the relationship between East India Company transportation and earlier and concurrent British Crown transportation to the Americas and Australia. It is concerned in particular with the interconnection between convictism and enslavement in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Examining the roots of transportation in South Asia in the repressive policies of the East India Company, especially in relation to its occupation of land and expropriation of resources, it moves on to discuss aspects of convicts’ lives in Moulmein, Singapore, Mauritius, and Aden. This includes their labour regime and their relationship to other workers. It argues that Indian convict transportation was part of a carceral circuit of repression and coerced labour extraction that was intertwined with the expansion of East India Company governance and trade. The Company used transportation as a means of removing resistant subjects from their homes, and of supplying an unfree labour force to develop commodity exports and to build the infrastructure necessary for the establishment, population, and connection of littoral nodes. However, the close confinement and association of convicts during transportation rendered the punishment a vector for the development of transregional political solidarities, centred in and around the Company's port cities.

scholarly journals THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REVIEW OF THE MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND GAS IN INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Fitriani Khairunnisa
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Directorate General

Abstract This research aims to determine the regulations of international law and the national law on the management of oil and gas in Indonesia. This research was conducted in several related Institutions in Jakarta, such as the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Directorate general of Oil and Gas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Pertamina Jakarta. This research conducted field research method, to find out the primary data through interviews with several resources who have competent research above objects, also used literature research method to find out the secondary data through the documents related to the object of research. The implementation of the cooperation contract adopting the system of the national sovereignty, in the implementation, each country has a different forms according the development of the contract system of oil and gas. Keywords: Contract, Oil and Gas in Indonesia

Pseudanthias vizagensis, a junior synonym of Pseudanthias pillai Heemstra & Akhilesh, 2012 (Perciformes: Serranidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4890 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
K.V. AKHILESH ◽  
T.G. KISHORE ◽  
M. MUKTHA ◽  
M.W. LISHER ◽  
GOP P. AMBARISH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Bay Of Bengal Coast

Pseudanthias vizagensis Krishna, Rao and Venu, 2017 was described from 44 specimens, collected from Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), on the Bay of Bengal coast of India, but without clear designation of a holotype. The characters used for differentiating the species from its nearest congener Pseudanthias pillai Heemstra & Akhilesh, 2012, a species currently known only from the northern Indian Ocean, were limited, poor and substantially overlapping. Examination of additional material of P. pillai from the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and comparison with the original description and images of P. vizagensis revealed that the latter is a junior synonym of P. pillai. Diagnostic characters are reviewed, additional morphological details and fresh colouration, including sexual dimorphic characters not covered in previous works are provided. 

Seawater quality conditions of the south Andaman Sea (Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean) in lustrum during 2010s decade

2018 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 424-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Thadikamala Sathish ◽  
Nambali Valsalan Vinithkumar ◽  
Ramalingam Kirubagaran ◽  
Perumal Madeswaran
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
South Andaman ◽  
Seawater Quality
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