In February 2021, India had extended a $50 million line of credit to the Maldives for defence projects. It also signed a deal to construct and maintain a naval facility. The agreement to “develop, support and maintain” the Coast Guard harbour in Uthuru Thila Falhu was signed by external affairs minister S. Jaishankar and Mariya Didi, the Maldives defence minister. Didi said at the time that the harbour and dockyard would be “another significant milestone” in bilateral defence cooperation.
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The commissioning of India’s first indigenously designed and manufactured aircraft carrier marks a defining moment in the history of the Indian Navy. INS Vikrant, the namesake and a successor to the nation’s beloved first aircraft carrier, will catapult India to a select club of the world’s great Naval powers.