For the first time, India and the US have agreed on a 10-year strategic agreement. The US has also signed a 10-year defence agreement with any country for the first time. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh described it as a 'signal' of growing bilateral strategic ties even as Washington vowed to work closely with New Delhi to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Singh and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed the framework agreement for the 'US-India major defence partnership' pact following their wide-range talks in Kuala Lumpur that focused on boosting strategic ties across all its pillars. Know key details of the deal below:

The first major point in this defence pact is the sharing of real-time intelligence. This means that agencies from both countries will share intelligence.

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