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Topic: Rafale deal

Rahul Gandhi raises Rafale pitch, calls Narendra Modi a ‘gatekeeper for Anil Ambani’

Neelam Pandey -
Rahul Gandhi also questions Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘hurried’ visit to France and the Dassault factory, but defence ministry says it was planned well in advance.

Picking Reliance as partner was our choice, Dassault says again after new Rafale row

Sujan Dutta -
Was Dassault forced to pick Reliance or just an offset partner in India, is the question that’s triggered a new Rafale controversy.

Is mandatory clause a smoking gun to make Rafale BJP’s Bofors or an opposition stretch?

ThePrint Team -
French investigative journal Mediapart has accessed an “internal document” of Dassault Aviation, the makers of the Rafale jets. It states the firm’s joint venture...

Mr Akbar must go, says The Indian Express

Simrin Sirur -
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Don’t react to Opposition charges on Rafale, BJP tells spokespersons & media panellists

Pragya Kaushika -
BJP spokespersons have also been told not to give credence to Rahul Gandhi by reacting to his charges, and instead ridicule him. 

Rafale isn’t Modi’s Bofors scandal — at least not yet

Shekhar Gupta -
The opposition campaign on Rafale has many limitations – no V.P. Singh, no smoking gun, no story, no slogan.

Arun Shourie, Prashant Bhushan meet CBI chief to demand probe into Rafale deal

PTI -
In addition to a detailed complaint, they have also submitted documents supporting their arguments for the need of probe. New Delhi: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan and former Union...

Rafale deal is Bofors many times over, what it lacks is a V.P. Singh

Yogendra Yadav -
There are 6 conditions for a defence scam to become a political game changer, Rafale deal already fulfils four.   

Air Chief Dhanoa criticises HAL, backs Rafale purchase as ‘gamechanger’

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Amid row over Reliance Defence as Dassault's offset partner for Rafale, Air Chief says neither govt nor IAF has anything to do with such selections.

Rafale shows HAL desperately needs competition

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Opinion

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

Bloomberg Opinion -
The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

BJP’s uniformity push is harmful. Ladakh shows federalism is the core of our democracy

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

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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