Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi began a five-day visit to Bangladesh on June 30 with an aim to consolidate the bilateral defence engagement and explore new avenues of cooperation in the maritime domain. The Navy chief is scheduled to hold wide-ranging talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Admiral M. Nazmul Hassan, and other top officials of Bangladesh's military, including the …
The Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre for Indian Ocean Region located in Gurugram played a quiet but crucial role in the backend as the hijacking incident of m.v. Elaborating on this further, Capt Bajpai, Director, IFC-IOR, said they got hold of the company and “were in touch day and night” while an Indian Navy patrol aircraft that was in the …
The naval chiefs of several countries with stakes in the strategic Indian Ocean region will on Tuesday kick off a key conclave in Thailand where they will discuss ways to step up maritime cooperation, address challenges in the vast expanse and strengthen its security architecture, officials aware of the matter said on Monday. The four-day Indian Ocean Naval Symposium in …
GSI includes the implementation of four major initiatives: the Belt and Road Initiative, the Health Silk Road, the Digital Silk Road, and the Global Development Initiative. These initiatives demonstrate China’s efforts to increase its presence and influence in the IOR and around the world The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy recently held an online forum for the heads of international …
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is expected to visit Australia in November when both countries are likely to conclude the long-pending mutual logistics support agreement and a broader maritime cooperation agreement to elevate the strategic partnership, defence and diplomatic sources said. “The mutual logistics support agreement, information exchange and a broader maritime agreement, including maritime domain awareness, are expected to be …