Chennai, Feb. 27 -- India's journey towards Viksit Bharat - developed nation unfolds amid a challenging maritime environment around the country - characterised by escalating strategic competition, growing contestation across surface, sub-surface, and air domains, and an increasing tendency for continental frictions to spill over into the maritime domain, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi observed here on Friday.
Speaking after commissioning the 'warship 'Dolphin Hunter' INS Anjadip, an anti-submarine shallow watercraft, at the Chennai Port here, he said "In such an environment, the region is witnessing a new reality - that even small disruptions at sea can produce disproportionate strategic consequences - amplified by the conv...