New Delhi, April 23 -- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has invited the German industry to co-develop and co-produce with India, particularly in the field of niche technologies, as he underscored the need to forge partnerships based on reliability and shared interests, terming them as indispensable in the current shifts in geopolitical alignments, disruptions in supply chains, rapid technological transformations, and increasing global uncertainties.

Singh was addressing Indian and German defence industry leaders during the Defence Investor Summit in Munich on the final day of his maiden visit to the European nation today.

He asserted that nations and industries are re-evaluating their dependencies, diversifying their supply chains, and seek...