India and Madagascar on Thursday discussed maritime security cooperation, as part of their efforts to ramp up defence presence in western Indian Ocean. On the second day of DefExpo 2020, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held dialogue with Lieutenant General Rokotonirina Richard, his counterpart in Madagascar, an Indian Ocean island nation off the coast of East Africa and discussed a gamut of issues related to strategic partnership.

India holds talks with Madagascar on maritime security tie-up

India's biennial DefExpo has started in Lucknow on Wednesday and this is perhaps one of the largest defence expos that India has ever organised. More than one thousand companies are there.

Defence Expo 2020 showcases India's potential to become a manufacturing hub

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said two grand defence manufacturing corridors were being built in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to help the defence sector as well as other smaller businesses in the regions.

Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu to become grand defence manufacturing corridors, says PM Modi

India is eyeing defence export of $5 billion in the next five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, highlighting the measures taken by his government to boost manufacturing and woo investors to set up a base in the country.

Our target is $5 billion of defence export in next five years: Narendra Modi

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday attended the inaugural ceremony of the Defence Expo 2020 in Lucknow and said that the central government is working towards making India a hub of defence manufacturing.

We want to make India a defence manufacturing hub: Rajnath Singh

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India holds talks with Madagascar on maritime security tie-up

Defence Expo 2020 showcases India's potential to become a manufacturing hub

Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu to become grand defence manufacturing corridors, says PM Modi

Our target is $5 billion of defence export in next five years: Narendra Modi

We want to make India a defence manufacturing hub: Rajnath Singh