Rafale deal involved 'major and unprecedented concessions', says The Hindu. But sources say government allowed to take decisions in country's interest.
The SIPRI report comes as a shot in the arm for HAL, which lost out in the Rafale deal after Dassault Aviation chose Reliance Defence as its offset partner.
Twin courtroom victories give Anil Ambani and his firms a boost.
New Delhi/Mumbai: It’s a good start to the weekend for billionaire Anil Ambani.
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At Military Literature Festival, former Indian Army chief General Ved Prakash Malik (Retd) discussed factors he thought were holding Make in India back.
If defence purchase processes are found to be faulty, they should be addressed at that level without questioning the equipment under procurement and adequately amended.
German mountaineers Stallbohm and Poncar recall their interactions with Col. Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar and shed light on the maps they gave him which drew his attention to Siachen.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
Urgency? What are they talking about? It’s 4 years since the shiny new deal was signed and not even a single aircraft is delivered as yet. On the other hand if they had concluded the previous deal, we would have started getting the aircraft since last year.
What a nonsensical article. In Augusta Westland, the CaeO was sacked and imprisoned and convicted for bribing charges by Italian Govt. Where’s that in Dassault? Just because you are idealogicslly antagonistic to Modi and he has been incorruptible you think people are dumb to accept your imposition of alleged corruption on him?
That is their idea. Keep shouting “Scam” long enough so that people will start believing in it. The HIndu’s antics, NDTV’s omissions, HT’s oversimplifications. SOmeone desperately wants IAF to buy LockheedMartins F-16’s and shut out France from India’s defense purchases.
The whole format of our national debate has got entangled in whataboutery. 1984 vs 2002; Rafale vs AgustaWestland. Each transaction must stand on its own feet, be able to withstand scrutiny.
Urgency? What are they talking about? It’s 4 years since the shiny new deal was signed and not even a single aircraft is delivered as yet. On the other hand if they had concluded the previous deal, we would have started getting the aircraft since last year.
What a nonsensical article. In Augusta Westland, the CaeO was sacked and imprisoned and convicted for bribing charges by Italian Govt. Where’s that in Dassault? Just because you are idealogicslly antagonistic to Modi and he has been incorruptible you think people are dumb to accept your imposition of alleged corruption on him?
That is their idea. Keep shouting “Scam” long enough so that people will start believing in it. The HIndu’s antics, NDTV’s omissions, HT’s oversimplifications. SOmeone desperately wants IAF to buy LockheedMartins F-16’s and shut out France from India’s defense purchases.
The whole format of our national debate has got entangled in whataboutery. 1984 vs 2002; Rafale vs AgustaWestland. Each transaction must stand on its own feet, be able to withstand scrutiny.