The 2025 Bongosagar exercise, which has been held annually since 2019, involved the participation of Indian Navy’s INS Ranvir and Bangladesh Navy’s BNS Abu Ubaidah.
BIMSTEC is an institutional framework for cooperation among 7 countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand — that surround the Bay of Bengal.
India has, however, not released official statement with regard to exercise with Russia. As per Russian defence ministry, exercise will last until Wednesday.
Monsoon rains arrived over remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands on 19 May, but then didn't make any progress until 30 May. Onset of monsoon over Kerala might slightly delay.
The IMD has cautioned fishermen against going out to the south Andaman sea & southeast Bay of Bengal. Andaman & Nicobar Islands will experience heavy rainfall between 9 and 12 May.
The exercise, which began Sunday, marks 10 years of the Japan India Maritime Exercise as well as 70 years since diplomatic relations between both nations were established.
In the study, published in the journal PNAS Tuesday, a German team of researchers reconstructed Indian summer monsoon rainfall changes over the past 130,000 years.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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