Context: Konkan Shakti is one of the biggest joint exercises between Indian armed forces and United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG).
Key Points

• Konkan Shakti is the first tri-service exercise between India and the United Kingdom.
• The exercise highlights the re-entry of the UK’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) into western Indian Ocean waters.
• The CSG, along with HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been on deployment in the Indo-Pacific waters for all summer.
• Deployment of CSG is significant for the UK as it is the biggest deployment after the end of the Cold War.