India and the US inked on Friday an expansive new defence framework to strengthen their strategic partnership over the next 10 years. This comes amid indications that a trade deal is also in the works to douse the raging tariff tensions between the two countries. The 'Framework for the US-India Major Defence Partnership', inked during a meeting between defence minister Rajnath Singh and his American counterpart Pete Hegseth on the sidelines of the Asean meet in Kuala Lumpur, supplants and builds on the one inked in June 2015. The 2025 framework aims to further transform the defence partnership by providing "a unified vision and policy direction" to deepen cooperation in all domains, including defence-industrial collaboration, military interoperability across land, air, sea, space and

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