India and Australia on Thursday discussed next steps to deepen their defence partnership, including through enhancing strategic dialogue and increasing the complexity of exercises, during the Australia–India Defence Ministers’ Dialogue held at Parliament House in Canberra.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was welcomed by Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, for the inaugural session of the dialogue which marked unprecedented progress in the bilateral defence partnership between the two countries.

“This is the first visit of an Indian Defence Minister to Australia in a dozen years. We are enormously happy to have you here today,” Marles highlighted in his opening remarks at the meeting.

“We will be doing more in terms of talks between our two operation

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