India on Friday refrained from announcing the much-expected deal to buy 26 Rafale-M combat aircraft for its navy from France, even as the two nations announced several big-ticket defence deals after a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday. Modi and Macron also adopted a roadmap for expanding India-France cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, ostensibly to counter the expansionist aspirations of China. The deal for procuring 26 maritime versions of the Rafale combat aircraft for the Indian Navy from Dassault Aviation of France was expected to be one of the deliverables of the...