India’s growing maritime partnerships took centre stage at India Maritime Week (IMW) 2025, held in Mumbai from October 27 to 31, where new defence-sector and commercial collaborations underscored the ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah was in Mumbai to inaugurate India Maritime Week 2025. Amit Shah, while addressing the public at Nesco Centre in Goregaon, outlined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

The Centre has approved a sovereign guarantee-backed maritime insurance pool worth ₹12,980 crore to support external trade amid war-related disruptions and economic sanctions. The pool ‌will operate ...

India and Italy exchanged a Bilateral Military Cooperation Plan for 2026-27 during talks between Defence Ministers Rajnath Singh and Guido Crosetto, aiming to boost military engagement, maritime ...

The pool covers all maritime risks such as hull and machinery, cargo and war risks for Indian flagged or controlled vessels or vessels destined to or starting from India.

The Indian Air Force received its first C295 transport aircraft in September 2023. (Airbus) Editor’s note: Vivek Raghuvanshi, a journalist and freelancer to Defense News for more than three decades, ...

The ministry of ports, shipping and waterways is preparing to roll out about 20 sectoral reforms in the first 90 days of FY27, including the creation of a maritime sector regulator, revamped ...

Sri Lanka is India’s closest maritime neighbour, and New Delhi has long cast itself as a net security provider in the Indian Ocean. The island nation is central to India’s [...] ...

Centre intensifies diplomatic outreach and maritime monitoring as tensions in West Asia raise concerns over energy supplies ...

A key participant was Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), a Miniratna defence public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Defence.