DAC accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for capital acquisition amounting to over Rs 70,500 crore under Buy Indian-IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured).
Pakistan in its address at the IPU Assembly, referred to Kashmir in its habitual manner. India through a Right to Reply (RoR) slammed Pakistan terming it an "exporter of terrorists" and reiterated that Pakistan has no locus standi on Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Relations between Australia and India have been warm in recent years. Along with the U.S. and Japan, both countries are members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, a group of democratic nations aimed at countering Chinese expansionism.
According to the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations.