- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on July 11 inked seven pacts
- Both the nations vowed to jointly combat terrorism in the region organised crime and illegal drug-trafficking
- A total of seven pacts were signed including an agreement on cooperation in the field of defence and another on tourism
- Pact on defence would provide a framework for strengthen the bilateral defence and security cooperation through exchanges of high and mid-level visits, training and dialogue between the Ministries of Defence and other relevant organisations
- The TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) project as a significant initiative in relationship between the two countries
- The project was envisaged to take gas from Turkmenistan, which holds the world’s fourth-largest natural gas reserves, to India and Pakistan through Afghanistan
- An MoU signed for cooperation in the fertilizer sector will enable long term arrangements for supply of fertilizers from Turkmenistan to India
- They also signed the supply of chemical products
PM Modi signs four key agreements with Kyrgyzstan
- India and Kyrgyzstan signed four major agreements during Prime Minister visit to Kyrgyzstan
- The agreement signed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his arrival at Kyrgyzstan for his eight-day six-nation tour to Central Asia
- The two nation decided to increase cooperation in defence. The pact includes the joined military exercises
- The new agreement on defence cooperation would provide a framework to broaden bilateral engagement which would also include defence technology according to PM Modi
- Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev received Prime Minister Modi, the two leaders held extensive talks on a wide range of issues including strengthening ties in the field of trade, investment, tourism, culture and human resource development
- Memorandum of Mutual Understanding and Cooperation in the field of Elections, MoU between Ministry of Economy of Kyrgyzstan and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on cooperation in the sphere of standards
Anti-Tank missile tested from helicopter platform
- India has test-fired its indigenously developed Nag anti-tank guided missile, which can hit a target upto seven km, from a helicopter at a firing range in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan
- Three-round trial of helicopter-launched Nag (HeliNa) missile were conducted on Sunday at the Chandhan firing range
- HeliNa is a helicopter-launched version of Nag and has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP)
- Earlier trials of this third generation 'fire and forget' missile were conducted from the Pokhran firing range and Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur and was as successful
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