India and the United States on Friday signed a 10-year framework for “major defence partnership”.

While the details of the framework were not immediately known, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that the agreement will “ usher in a new era in our already strong defence partnership”.

“This defence framework will provide policy direction to the entire spectrum of the India-US defence relationship,” Singh said on social media. “It is a signal of our growing strategic convergence and will herald a new decade of partnership.”

He added that defence will remain a “major pillar” of the India-US relationship. “Our partnership is critical for ensuring a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific region,” he added.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who signed the document alongside Singh in Ma

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