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Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force said Tuesday it has been conducting exercises with the Indian Navy in waters off the South Asian nation's east coast amid China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. The MSDF helicopter…

The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and India agreed Thursday to seek to hold their first joint fighter jet drill at an early date as they are struggling to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific amid China's growing maritime…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held bilateral talks in New Delhi to review and further strengthen the all-encompassing India-Bangladesh partnership. Seven Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),…

Weather officials are predicting further bouts of severe weather in Bengaluru as torrential rains pounded the city, submerged access to office parks and hit back-office operations that are the nerve centre of the global financial and…

Cyrus Mistry, scion of one of India’s most illustrious business families who formerly headed the nation’s biggest business group, died in a road accident near Mumbai on Sunday. Mistry, 54, was travelling from Ahmedabad in Gujarat state…

India will commission its first domestically built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, on Sept 2, the Indian Navy has announced. Alongside the INS Vikramaditya, which was purchased from Russia, India will now have two aircraft carriers in…

India's potential clampdown on exports of broken rice shows the world's top shipper trying to thread the needle of cooling domestic inflation without causing global panic. The government is discussing curbs on broken rice exports, which…

India and China traded insults over their diverging interests in Sri Lanka, after a controversial Chinese scientific research ship called at the island nation despite New Delhi's security concerns. Sri Lanka "needs support, not unwanted…

India's legal aid authority has launched a nationwide scheme to free poor people in pre-trial detention, who make up 76 per cent of the country's prison population. Known as undertrial prisoners, they are those accused of crime who are…

India's government has sacked three air force officers for the "accidental firing of a missile" into Pakistan in March. The incident escalated tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations. Delhi had blamed the…