India will likely hold a major naval exercise in November with the US and Japan. Australia is also expected to be a part of the naval exercise.
The development is big in the face of the on-going faceoff with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), where there has been mobilisation from the Chinese side from the last several months in Eastern Ladakh.
India is already expanding deployment of its warships in the Indian Ocean region in the wake of its tense border standoff.