India, Oct. 15 -- India and the European Union (EU) have conducted their first counter-terrorism exercise aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and soft targets from emerging threats from unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and for drawing up procedures for integrated counter-drone operations.

The three-day training programme, which concluded on Wednesday, brought together senior officers, instructors and technical experts from India's National Security Guard (NSG) and the EU's High Risk Security Network (HRSN), and focused on the use of advanced UAS and counter-UAS capabilities, the EU said in a statement.

Defence and security cooperation, including collaboration on counter-terrorism initiatives, between India and the EU has grown rap...