Canberra/New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) India and Australia on Monday discussed advancements in bilateral maritime security cooperation and efforts to finalise the Joint Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap. During the second India–Australia Defence Ministers’ Dialogue held in New Delhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, agreed to progress the collaborative maritime domain awareness activities by maritime patrol aircra…
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New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar held a meeting with his Comoros counterpart Mbae Mohamed here on Friday, discussing cooperation in health, sports, infrastructure, and capacity building. “A pleasure to meet Foreign Minister Mbae Mohamed of Comoros today. Discussed cooperation in health, sports, infrastructure and capacity building. Agreed on the importance of more frequent engagements between our two countries”, EAM Jaishankar wrote, in a post on X. On Thursd…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) India is no longer a peripheral player in the affairs of Indo-Pacific but is becoming the fulcrum upon which regional stability and prosperity relies. India’s centrality in the Indo-Pacific is a strategic prize that must be continuously earned through investment in maritime capabilities, diplomatic engagement and economic integration, a report has detailed. India’s rise in the Indo-Pacific is driven by three factors – the need to counterbalance China’s assertive regional…