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Exercise INDRA-21
Part of: GS Prelims and GS II – International relations
In news The 12th Edition of Indo-Russia joint military Exercise INDRA will be held at Volgograd, Russia in August 2021.
About Exercise INDRA
- The exercise will entail conduct of counter terror operations under the United Nations mandate by a joint force against international terror groups.
- The INDRA series of exercises began in 2003 and was conducted as a bilateral naval exercise alternately between the two countries. However, the first joint Tri-Services Exercise was conducted in 2017.
- The last joint, tri-services exercise between India and Russia was conducted in India in December 2019. It was held simultaneously at Babina (near Jhansi), Pune, and Goa.
Major Indian Maritime Exercises
| Name of the Exercise | Name of the Country |
| SLINEX | Sri Lanka |
| Bongosagar and IN-BN CORPAT | Bangladesh |
| JIMEX | Japan |
| Naseem-Al-Bahr | Oman |
| Indra | Russia |
| Za’ir-Al-Bahr | Qatar |
| Samudra Shakti | Indonesia |
| Indo-Thai CORPAT | Thailand |
| IMCOR | Malaysia |
| SIMBEX | Singapore |
| AUSINDEX | Australia |
| Malabar Exercise | Japan, and the USA |
News Source: PIB
