US NAVY CONDUCTS ‘FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION' OPERATION IN INDIAN WATERS WITHOUT CONSENT

Highlights

• The US Navy had conducted a freedom of navigation near Lakshadweep Islands on Wednesday that too without prior consent from New Delhi

• The operation was conducted by guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones on April said a statement issued by the Commander of the US seventh fleet 

• According to the statement, US forces have been operating in the Indo-Pacific region on a regul....