India, Oct. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali on Monday aboard India's indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, spending the festival with Indian Navy personnel off the Goa coast.

This year's celebration continues his decade-long tradition of marking the festival with members of India's armed forces.

Heaping praise on INS Vikrant during his address, PM Modi said that only the aircraft carrier's name was enough for Pakistan to have "sleepless nights".

India had launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, a fortnight after 26 civilians were killed in the Pahalgam terror attack.

Commissioned in 2022, INS Vikrant marks India's entry into an elite group of nations capable of designing and building their own aircraft car...