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Individual perception can’t be basis of fishing enquiry: What Supreme Court said on Rafale deal

ThePrint Team -
Read the full text of the Supreme Court judgment that cleared the Rafale deal, and dismissed all petitions seeking a review of the process.

At chat with Rahul Gandhi, current & ex-HAL employees say ‘hurt by govt jibe’ on Rafale

Rohini Swamy -
Nirmala Sitharaman had said recently that the UPA-era deal for 126 Rafales had fallen through because HAL did not have the capability to make the jets.

Rafale shows HAL desperately needs competition

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HAL doesn’t fly because Sukhois aren’t Rafales

Shekhar Gupta -
If they were, the Great Indian Bureaucrat would be the Marshal of the Air Force. Bofors mummified our defence acquisitions, Rafale could entomb it now.

Rahul Gandhi wants Sitharaman to resign for ‘lying’ about HAL in Rafale deal

PTI -
Nirmala Sitharaman had earlier accused former defence minister A.K. Antony of not supporting HAL in getting the Rafale deal.

Could have built Rafale jets in India, says former HAL chief

Rahul Singh, HT -
T. Suvarna Raju's remarks mark the first time anyone from the state-owned aircraft maker has publicly commented on questions around Rafale deal.

Sitharaman blames UPA for not making HAL an ‘appealing’ enough partner for Rafale

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Defence minister says if negotiations were going on between Dassault and HAL, 'the govt (UPA) could have done anything to strengthen HAL’s offer’. 

Sukhoi aircraft crashes near Nashik, both pilots ejected safely

PTI -
The Sukhoi Su-30MKI twinjet, awaiting induction in the Indian Air Force, crashes in a farm near Nashik.

China’s fifth-gen fighter jet now in operation; India’s plans with Russia still stuck

Manu Pubby -
Proposal to use HAL resources to fund development project blocked even as Air Force faces budget crunch. Project now requires PMO intervention.

The desi LCA is defence ministry’s low-hanging fruit and it needs to be plucked now

Manu Pubby -
A quick turnaround of the Tejas light fighter is on the cards but the government needs to step up.
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Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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