BIG 5: Parrikar meets Ashton Carter, inks historic logistics pact

Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar met his United States counterpart, Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter, on Tuesday in Washington. The visit is Parrikar’s second to the United States as India’s defence minister and resulted in the conclusion of a long-anticipated bilateral deal on military logistics exchange, known as the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) that was first mooted in the early 2000s.