Exercise Ekatha 2025:

Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (DCNS), Indian Navy, is on an official visit to Maldives to attend the closing ceremony of Ex Ekatha 2025.
- Exercise Ekatha 2025 established in 2017, Exercise Ekatha is an annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF).
- It aims to enhance bilateral maritime cooperation, and 2025 marks its eighth edition.
- The exercise involved a series of professional interactions designed to boost interoperability and operational collaboration between the two navies.
- Activities included technical and combat diving, boarding operations, firing drills, demolition and explosive handling, asymmetric warfare tactics, and special heli-borne operation drills.


