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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicRafale deal

Topic: Rafale deal

Congress & BJP think that women can only explain Rafale in dumbed down metaphors

BJP and Congress may use women to explain Rafale deal, but Indian women weren’t even inducted as fighter pilots until 2016 – that is 10 yrs after Pakistan.

Rafale is the talk of the town, but no one in India knows how to pronounce it

Leaders from the BJP and the Congress have called it various different things, but none have been accurate. Here’s how to pronounce the name.

A Twitter minister, and censored cartoons in India

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

Everything you wanted to know about Rafale and did not know who to ask

The Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal is at the centre of a furious war of words between the govt and opposition. Here's an explainer on the jet and the controversy.

Sonia Gandhi leads protests over Rafale deal outside Parliament

Sonia Gandhi along with opposition MPs demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into the issue.

Modi government’s refusal to appoint Lokpal weakens its Rafale defence

An independent Lokpal inquiry could have ended the Rafale controversy.

Ex-union ministers Yashwant Sinha & Arun Shourie demand CAG audit into Rafale deal

Shourie terms it the ‘biggest defence scam in India’, activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan calls it ‘criminal misconduct’.

Modi govt using NRC as a tool to divide society, says Congress at key party meeting

Congress promises to help those Indian citizens whose names are missing in the final draft of NRC.

Before Rafale deal, Modi govt passed over option to buy Rs 453 cr/unit cheaper Eurofighter

German-led offer for Eurofighter Typhoon at €138 mln/unit not pursued; Rafale signed at €197 mln a piece.

In the Rafale brouhaha, India has missed its real, bigger defence scandal

Nothing would be lost in making details of Rafale deal public, especially since the broad numbers are already available.

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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.