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The Wall Street Journal
Nov 26, 2024

India is building a new base for nuclear-armed submarines in the Bay of Bengal called INS Varsha in a bid to curb China's naval footprint growing in India's backyard. The Bay of Bengal is a critical shipping lane and some China experts believe the waterway could play a key role in any conflict over Taiwan or the South China Sea.

WSJ examined satellite images to see how INS Varsha has expanded and explores how this project is forming the backbone of New Delhi's plans to keep Beijing's ambitions in the region in check.

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0:00 India's new military base
0:31 Bay of Bengal
1:21 China's presence in the bay
2:44 INS Varsha
3:46 India's nuclear submarines

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ThePrint
Jan 22, 2025


'The DAP 2020 is a nearly 700-page long monolith, difficult to read and even more difficult to comprehend. It superseded the DAP 2015, which itself was over 400 pages. Acknowledging that the policy is flawed, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said that the DAP would undergo a complete revamp within the next six months to a year to address a system that has been criticised for delays and inefficiencies, says former Army Chied General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd) in his column for ThePrint

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Indian bureaucracy puts all others to shame, and not in a good way.