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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicRafale deal

Topic: Rafale deal

Modi govt set to shake off Ambani-Rafale shadow with a little help from Putin

Russia & India are set to sign billion-dollar contracts in which Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence claimed stake. But now firm may find itself eased out

Fugitive arms dealer & Robert Vadra’s ‘friend’ Sanjay Bhandari lives in plush London flat

Robert Vadra & Sanjay Bhandari's names were dragged into the Rafale deal controversy by the BJP last week.

Bollywood’s silence over Tanushree’s allegations & India celebrates the Sabarimala verdict

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

HAL doesn’t fly because Sukhois aren’t Rafales

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.

Turning a blind eye towards sedition law, and the ‘upcoming’ Ayodhya verdict

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

NCP leader Tariq Anwar resigns, cites Sharad Pawar’s remarks on Rafale and Modi as trigger

Tariq Anwar, who formed NCP along with Sharad Pawar and P.A. Sangma, says party chief's statements have given NDA a new lease of life.

Actually, the Indian Air Force has never been without a Dassault aircraft

IAF has been using fighter jets made by Dassault, a French company since 1953. It deployed Mirage 2000 to drop laser-guided bombs during Kargil war.

Rahul Gandhi hits out at Modi govt for targeting official who objected to Rafale deal

The Congress president also alleged that the officer was penalised, while those who sided with the government were rewarded.

Supreme Court’s balancing act on Aadhaar, and adultery law’s fall

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

A quick guide for BJP on how NOT to defend the Rafale defence deal

Opposition too has a lesson to learn. When the government is on the defensive, you go for the jugular, not below the belt.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

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

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

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.

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

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

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.