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After historic Quad summit, France edges closer to steel the grouping By IANS|   Updated: 16th March 2021 1:27 pm IST New Delhi: After their first historic summit last week, the Indo-Pacific Quad comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia, France is now set to steel the rapidly evolving grouping. From April 4-7, France will participate in a five-nation naval exercise, called La Perouse, which will include all the four Quad members. These naval manoeuvres will be held in the Bay of Bengal, h...

Intensifying its refusal to ask any questions or taking part in any discussions that require replies from six cabinet ministers, Karnataka Congress members refused to pose questions to these ministers in both legislative houses on Tuesday.The ...

India will deploy its frontline warships and P-8I maritime patrol aircraft from the Eastern Naval Command at Vizag for this Quad-plus-France exercise. “France has initiated this exercise of like-minded countries with strategic congruence over the Indo-Pacific,” said an official.

March 14, 2021 For the first time, the navies of Israel, Greece, Cyprus, and France came together last week to hold joint maneuvers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. In a show of strength, the countries practiced anti-submarine warfare and search-and-rescue operations to jointly prepare for any possible threats in the future. Should the Indian Navy join such an exercise in the Mediterranean? Indian military experts seem to have different views on this. The exercise, ‘Noble Dina’, was aimed...

Tourism Minister visits Lingambudi, Varuna lakes Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA After visiting the Hebbal Lake here on Friday to see how the water body had been restored by the Infosys Foundation, Minister for Tourism, Ecology and Environment C.P. Yogeshwar on Saturday visited Lingambudi and Varuna lakes which are the city’s two other popular water bodies. Varuna lake is known for water sports and many youth throng the site. During his visit to Lingambudi lake, the Minister was told ab...

French Indo-Pac Strategy: A Balancing Act ‘ ’Initiated and adopted by several nations in the past years, the concept of an Indo-Pacific theater does not mean the same for each one of them. For France, which is the very first European nation to have replaced the traditional Asia-Pacific concept with a more assertive Indo-Pacific strategy, the key is the inclusion of India in the equation. The reason is tied to New Delhi’s political dimension which is crucial to counter-balance Beijing’s...

Book on Constitution to be distributed to PUC students in Chamarajanagar LS segment Mysuru, Updated: Mysuru, Updated: Share Article AAA A book on the Indian Constitution – Samvidhana Odu – written by retired judge of Karnataka High Court H.N. Nagmohan Das will be distributed for free to all PUC students in Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency. About 30,000 students will be given copies of the book, which has been published under MP and former Minister V. Srinivas Prasad’s MPLAD funds. A...

NEW DELHI, March 9: The Indian Navy, India’s partners in the QUAD grouping USA, Japan and Australia, and its strategic allies France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will conduct complex interoperability exercises in April. They involve carrier strike groups, anti-submarine warfare aircraft and attack submarines– a move aimed at projecting their dominance from the Persian Gulf to the Malacca Straits. The UAE will be joining India and France for the first time in a trilateral naval exercis...

Punch Newspapers Sections ’Tosin Oluwalowo President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, Ishaku Tikon, has hailed Africa’s top player, Quadri Aruna, for his performance, after he crashed out of the 2021 World Table Tennis Star Contender in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday. Aruna lost 3-0 (11-4, 13-11, 11-7) to Japan’s Harimoto Tamakazu, the world No.5 in the third round of the tournament. Tikon, who hailed Aruna for flying the continent’s flag well, said he hoped he would replicate the perf...

France has ramped up activity in the region in accordance with its 2019 Indo-Pacific strategy.