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Thursday, July 24, 2025
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Topic: US Navy

US Navy ship violates Indian law as it sails through exclusive zone in ‘messaging to China’

External affairs ministry says incident has been raised through diplomatic channels with US. Ex-Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash says US violated India's rules but not international law.

US plans new fleet for Indo-Pacific region as it focuses on ties with India, countering China

US Navy intends to resurrect its First Fleet, disbanded in 1973, to cover the Indo-Pacific region and could be based near Singapore.

Quad countries come together for complex second phase of Malabar naval exercise

US Navy’s Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, India’s Vikramaditya Carrier Battle Group will join Japanese Navy and Australian Navy for the exercise that will go on until 20 November.

US military aircraft refuels at Indian base for first time under defence pact

The aircraft landed over a week ago at an airstrip in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for refuelling under an agreement signed between India and US in 2016.

US put its ‘doomsday planes’ in air just before Trump’s Covid announcement

The launch of the two E-6B Mercury aircraft is being seen as a sign of America's defence and preparedness for any eventuality.

US Forces chief pledges to help Japan deal with incursions by Chinese ships

Tensions are flaring in an area known for rich fishing opportunities, as Chinese vessels spend increasingly long periods of time inside what Japan sees as its territorial waters.

US Navy aircraft carrier returns to sea after virus outbreak

Captain Brett Crozier had been relived of his command of U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt in April for sending a memo pleading in urgent terms for all but a skeleton crew to be removed amid the outbreak.

Why we must take UFO sightings by US Navy more seriously

Humanity has a long history of being caught unaware by outside arrivals; we should pay more attention to that bias in ourselves, like we should have for Covid-19.

US Navy wants to reinstate captain fired for highlighting Covid-19 outbreak on carrier

Captain Brett E. Crozier was fired after a letter he wrote to top Navy officials about a Covid-19 outbreak on USS Theodore Roosevelt was leaked to media.

US says Iranian ships repeatedly harassed its navy vessels in the Gulf

11 ships with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps repeatedly crossed bows and sterns of US vessels at extremely close range and high speeds.

On Camera

TV Somanathan’s letter is a reminder—civil servants must roll out the red carpet for investors

The reason that India hasn’t grown at the speed of South Korea, China or Vietnam is because the machinery of the government still holds on to the ‘commanding heights’.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

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.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

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.