The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team that is in Italy to probe the tainted VVIP chopper deal with AgustaWestland claimed it has procured some important documents from Italian authorities on the case. The CBI team, however, is yet to bring the proof back to India. ...
09:37 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Moving forward in its probe into alleged kickbacks in the VVIP helicopter deal, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has procured some documents from Italian authorities in Milan that may help it investigating whether any Indian had received bribes to swing the deal in favour of AgustaWestland. Highly-placed sources in the probe agency said on Sunday that one of the members of the CBI team who returned Sunday morning from...
06:02 PM, Feb 24, 2013
The Board of Italian defence giant Finmeccanica has carried out major organisational changes in the wake of the AgustaWestland scandal and the arrest of its Chief Executive Officer Giuseppe Orsi. All aerospace and defence businesses are being restructured and internal audit activities are being centralised. ...
04:43 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Many defence deals signed under AK Antony are under scanner. In 2006, an FIR was filed over alleged kickbacks in the Barak missile deal and the Navy war room leak case. In 2007, malpractices were reported in the supply of rations to troops in high altitude areas. In 2009, Singapore Technologies and Israel Military Industries were blacklisted over alleged corruption. This was also the year when the Adarsh Housing Society...
06:53 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The government is non-committal on axing the AgustaWestland deal. While External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said the showcause notice was just the first step, he indicated the government may not go all the way. ...
10:23 PM, Feb 18, 2013
As the Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing into the case, has decided to send a team to Italy within a week. ...
08:02 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi may be right in saying he played no role in fixing of norms in the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Defence documents accessed by CNN-IBN suggest that Tyagi may have not meddled with technical parameters. ...
07:16 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters. Acting on the issue, the government issued a notice to the company, asking why the deal should not be cancelled. ...
05:41 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Prashant Bhushan said that President Pranab Mukherjee and the governors accused in the AgustaWestland deal face immunity but can definitely be questioned by the CBI. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Amidst allegations of deviation from the tendering process, the government on Wednesday put off the decision on a proposal to procure 197 light helicopters, a move that comes against the backdrop of a scam in another chopper deal involving complainant AgustaWestland of Italy. ...
08:14 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Defence Ministry on Wednesday talked tough over the corruption allegations in the 2010 Italian helicopter deal. Defence Minister AK Antony said the government has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry and that nobody will be spared. ...
10:25 AM, Feb 13, 2013
A day after the Italian police arrested defence major Finmeccanica's CEO Giuseppe Orsi in an ongoing corruption inquiry, there are more details emerging. Reuters now reports that three cousins of former Indian Air Force Chief SP Tyagi allegedly helped twist rules in a helicopter tender won by AgustaWestland. ...
09:04 AM, Feb 13, 2013
In a big development in Italy that may have huge repercussions in India, the head of Italian defence group Finmeccanica, the owners of AgustaWestland, has been arrested over ongoing corruption investigations into his group. ...
06:38 PM, Feb 12, 2013
The Defence Ministry on Tuesday referred the Augusta Westland bribery allegations case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The development came after the Italian police arrested the head of Italian government-controlled defence group Finmeccanica SpA on February 12. ...
05:07 PM, Feb 12, 2013
China wants India to put behind the 1962 war as an "unfortunate" thing of the past and that the two countries should strengthen their military ties including formalising a border management pact under which their troops will not fire at each other. The Chinese assessment was conveyed to the Indian Defence ministry team which visited Beijing on January 14 and 15 for the third round of the Annual Defence Dialogue...
03:58 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The Ministry of Defence on Tuesday issued a strong statement criticising the Poonch ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops. In the statement, the MoD condemned the killing of the two Indian soldiers and said, "The government of India considers the incident as a provocative action and we condemn it. The DGMOs (Director General of Military Operations) of the two countries are in touch over it. The government will take up the...
11:41 PM, Jan 08, 2013
The Defence Ministry has sought clarifications from the Army on reports that equipment allegedly used by former chief Gen VK Singh to snoop on some government functionaries may have been destroyed. ...
08:24 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Against the backdrop of a freeze on procurement of Tatra trucks, the Armed Forces have started looking for alternative vehicles to equip them with their missile systems. In view of Defence Ministry's decision to put on hold the procurement of Tatra trucks pending the CBI probe into allegations of bribery by former Army Chief Gen VK Singh, several key missile projects of the Army and the Air Force have been...
04:41 AM, Jan 02, 2013
2012 was an unprecedented year for the Defence Ministry as it had a prolonged stand-off with former Army Chief Gen VK Singh over his age issue and a truck-deal case and was dragged to the Supreme Court. The selection of France's Dassault Rafale for the 126 combat aircraft deal, India's entry into the elite club of nations with intercontinental ballistic missiles with the launch of Agni V, induction of nuclear...
03:03 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to conclude deals on the sale of fighter jets and aircraft engines to India next week which could be worth more than $7.5 billion, defence industry sources said on Wednesday. Putin, who visits India on Monday, has his sights set on selling 42 Sukhoi SU-30MKI fighters and on the long-term supply of 970 warplane engines, one of the sources said. The source did not...
12:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
