New Delhi: India and the United States signed a landmark 10-year defense framework agreement on Friday, marking a significant deepening of their strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific region.

The pact aims to enhance military coordination, intelligence sharing, and technological collaboration between the two nations. It comes as both countries seek to counter their own respective threats.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth exchanged the agreement during bilateral talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus. The deal renews and expands the 2015 framework that expired earlier this year.

“This will usher in a new era in our already strong defence partnership,” Singh said in a statement on X, emphasizing the agreement’s role

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