About 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.
Key Facts about Maldives:
- It is an independent island country in the north-central Indian Ocean.
- It is Asia's smallest country by area.
- Gan is the country's largest island.
- Formerly a British colony, the Maldives became an independent nation in 1965.
- Capital: Male.
- Official language: Dhivehi (an Indo-European language); Arabic, Hindi, and English are also spoken.
