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First India-Australia joint naval exercise concludes

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015 - by India Writes Network

The Indian Ocean region is a major strategic location and an increasing amount of maritime activity in the region led India and Australia to conduct their first joint naval exercise …

India Recalibrates its Indian Ocean Strategy

March 12, 2015March 13, 2015 - by India Writes Network

The new Indian government, probably for the first time, seems to be recalibrating its stance towards adopting a structured policy towards the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), which hitherto carried no more significance than an anagrammatic similarity between the region and the country. The pre-election promise of the Sagar Mala Project in BJP manifesto, the push to demilitarise the Indian Ocean (IO) through the Galle Dialogue in 2014, Prime Minister’s heightened focus on its littoral neighbours, and most recently Prime Minister Modi’s visit to three island countries (Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka), which did not figure prominently in India’s regional geopolitical calculus, corroborate India’s intended policy seriousness towards the IOR.