New Kerala – India has sent five major warships and a submarine for a wargame with the French Navy in the Gulf of Aden that is aimed at building joint capabilities for anti-terror operations and interdiction on the high seas.
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Sify – The Pentagon has notified the Congress of plans to lease two P-3C reconnaissance aircraft to India.
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The Hindu – Russia has handed over the Kilo-class Indian diesel-electric submarine INS Sindhugosh to the naval crew after its complete modernisation at the Zvezdochka defence shipyard of Severodvinsk, in the White Sea.
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Reuters – Indian naval exercises with Thailand and Indonesia are aimed in part at ensuring security for a new sea route linking the Indian and Pacific oceans, a top Indian general said.
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Associated Press – Russia and India will hold joint naval and air exercises in mid-October.
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New Kerla – Aircraft carriers from the Indian Navy and the US Navy began a ten-day long joint naval exercise on Monday off the Goa coast.
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BBC – India is to bolster its navy with the purchase of six Franco-Spanish Scorpene-class submarines in a deal worth $1.8billion.
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Daily Times – India is building a nuclear submarine secretly, but it should do so openly as it is not breaking any laws, according to a retired admiral of the Indian Navy.
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New Straits Times – An Indian task force centered around INS Viraat is visiting Singapore.
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The Telegraph – The Indian Navy will deploy its aircraft carrier overseas for a first series of exercises in Southeast Asia this month and will follow it up with joint exercises on Indiaís eastern and western seaboards with the US, French and Russian navies???The navy is emerging as New Delhi’s service of choice to implement policies of military diplomacy. An intensification of exercises with the navies of the West off Indiaís coasts and with those of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in pursuance of a look-east policy is placing the Indian Navy at the centre of an emerging military diplomatic grid in the Indian Ocean region.
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Christian Science Monitor – As Indians and Pakistanis cross Kashmir’s ‘peace bridge’, US and Chinese admirals take note.

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PTI News – The construction of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier, designed by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design (DND), will commence at the Cochin Shipyard with the “steel cutting” ceremony tomorrow.

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Times of India – Even as Pakistan gets ready to inaugurate its spanking new Gwadar deep-sea port, built with Chinese help in Baluchistan, India’s plans to gain “strategic depth” are also taking concrete shape now after a long delay. The futuristic Karwar naval base on the western coast will progressively become operational – albeit in a truncated manner – over the next few months.

More from the Daily Times – Indiaís Karwar naval base to be operational next week.
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Sify News – Indo-US naval cooperation and acquisition of US equipment and systems were on top of the agenda when Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash met top American defence officials in Washington.
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Gulf Daily News – India will next month begin building an indigenously designed aircraft carrier that will tap Italian expertise and take eight years to complete.
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The Telegraph – India is trying to acquire French Scorpene-class submarines.
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United Press International – India still cannot persuade Russia to lease Akula-class nuclear powered submarines to it.
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Agence France Presse – How the Indian Navy is assisting in Sri Lanka.
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The Telegraph – The Indian Navy sortees to aid in disaster relief after more than 11,500 people die across Asia in massive waves triggered by the largest earthquake in 40 years.
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Times of India – The Indian Navy’s most ambitious, multi-dimensional naval base, which is coming up at Karwar as Project Seabird, is all set to berth its first ship on December 4, Navy Day.
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UPI – Indian Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash has said the delay in a project to locally manufacture submarines is “a big dent” in India’s “national security matrix.”
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United Press International – Russia denies it has leased an Akula-class nuclear powered submarine to India.
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Times of India – ???meanwhile India is desperate for more and newer ships???
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Times of India – India and the US are exercising together in the Malabar Exercises.
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The Statesman – The new chief of the Indian Navy wants a more network-centric navy, and nuclear powered submarines.
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