{"id":12074,"date":"2026-03-21T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:16:17","slug":"diego-garcia-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/diego-garcia-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Diego Garcia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran recently fired two ballistic missiles toward the joint U.S.-U.K. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Diego Garcia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a <\/span><b>coral atoll<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the central <\/span><b>Indian Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the largest and southernmost member of the <\/span><b>Chagos Archipelago.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of the <\/span><b>British Indian Ocean Territory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (BIOT) and accounts for more than half the land area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>discovered by the Portuguese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the early 16th century, it was for most of its history a dependency of Mauritius.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1965 it <\/span><b>was separated from Mauritius<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as part of the newly created BIOT.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1966, the <\/span><b>UK leased Diego Garcia to the US<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create an air and naval base. For constructing the defence installation, the inhabitants of the island were forcibly removed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diego Garcia is the <\/span><b>United States\u2019 major geostrategic and logistics support<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> base in the Indian Ocean.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A non-binding 2019 UN General Assembly vote demanded that Britain end its \u201ccolonial administration\u201d of the Chagos Archipelago and that it be returned to Mauritius.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/iran-israel-us-war-west-asia-conflict-live-updates-hezbollah-oil-supply-march-21-2026\/article70768245.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Garcia is a coral atoll located in the central Indian Ocean. 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