Seoul, June 7 (IANS) South Korea and Japan on Sunday held a joint maritime search and rescue exercise (SAREX) for the first time in nine years, the South Korean Navy said.The drill was conducted by the South Korean Navy and Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force in international waters southeast of Jeju Island, according to the Navy.The exercise involved the South Korean Navy’s 4,900-tonne ROKS Cheon Ja Bong landing ship, Japan’s 7,250-tonne Aegis-equipped Kongo destroyer, and a Japanese maritime p…
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Bishkek, April 28 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held meetings with his counterparts from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Bishkek on Tuesday. Describing his meeting with Kyrgyzstan’s Defence Minister Major General Mukambetov Ruslan Mustafaevich as “extremely productive”, Singh stated that the bilateral cooperation between the two nations spreads across various sectors and defence cooperation is an import…