10th Indian Navy – Sri Lanka Navy bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-2023 – The 10th Edition of the annual Indian Navy – Sri Lanka Navy bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-2023 started in Colombo on 3rd April 2023. the SLINEX-2023 exercise will be held in two phases of three days each, the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.
- SLINEX-2023 aim to boost inter-operability, improve mutual understanding and exchange best practices and procedures in multi-faceted Maritime operations between both Navies.
- The 9th edition of SLINEX was held in Visakhapatnam from the 7th to the 12th of March last year.
Sri Lanka
- Capitals: Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
- Dialling code: +94
- Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
- Population: 2.22 crores (2021) World Bank
- Gross domestic product: 8,892.73 crores USD (2021) World Bank
- Official languages: Sinhala, Tamil