DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 29 OCT 2017
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
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1. INDIA, US TO IMPLEMENT HOSTAC TO STRENGTHEN MARITIME SECURITY
i. To strengthen maritime security, India and the United States
have agreed to implement the program for Helicopter Operations from Ships Other
Than Aircraft Carriers.
ii. A decision in this regard was taken by Defense Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman and her US Counterpart Jim Mattis during their meeting in the
Philippines on the sidelines of the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting-Plus. They
"agreed on the importance of a rules-based international order" in
which all nations are able to prosper, and the "need to work
together" against the common threat of terrorism.