Daunting to-do list for India’s new defence minister

September 05, 2017 5:00 AM

NEW DELHI • Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, who was appointed as India’s first woman defence minister in 35 years on Sunday, will have to deliver on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of modernising the nation’s Soviet-era military equipment as border tensions with neighbours China and Pakistan simmer.

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