Holding that investigation into the Rs 3,600-crore VVIP helicopter deal was on at "many levels", India on Monday said Letters Rogatory is the "best and strongest method" available to it for seeking details from Italian courts on the case. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid also said a CBI team from New Delhi has gone to Milan in Italy to get material and details about the case. ...
04:42 AM, Feb 19, 2013
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct its largest "day-dusk-night" firepower demonstration in the the Rajasthan desert on February 22 that will feature frontline planes and mark the debut of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) at the event. ...
06:30 PM, Feb 18, 2013
CNN-IBN's senior editor Jyoti Kamal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the AgustaWestland chopper deal bribery scandal. ...
05:47 PM, Feb 18, 2013
The government is divided on whether to cancel the AgustaWestland chopper deal or not. Sources say the Prime Minister's Office is unhappy with the proposal to cancel the chopper deal. This comes amidst reports that the Defence Minister was inclined to cancel the deal in view of the bribery allegations against former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi. ...
11:11 AM, Feb 18, 2013
From Guido Haschke to Carlos Gerosa, key middlemen in the AgustaWestland chopper deal seem to have gone underground. CNN-IBN has been trying to get in touch with the key middlemen, but they have been untraceable. Haschke's neighbours told CNN-IBN that he has moved from his current address or is taken from there. They did not have a forward contact address. ...
07:44 AM, Feb 18, 2013
With a CBI team is set to leave for Italy on Monday to investigate the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal, the Indian government is still keeping silence on the details of the case, and the only information making rounds is the one revealed by the Italian probe report. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid speaking to CNN-IBN defended the Indian government saying that the Italian government has asked for secrecy....
06:56 AM, Feb 18, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said that all procedures were 'strictly followed' by the UPA government in the controversial VVIP chopper deal. ...
03:52 PM, Feb 16, 2013
The investigations into the AgustaWestland chopper deal may bring in more defence personnel under scrutiny. Apart from the Tyagi brothers, the Italian probe report mentions a military man who also received kickbacks. ...
01:18 PM, Feb 16, 2013
India's High Commissioner to the UK says the British government is closely watching the developments and waiting for the completion of Italian investigations in the AgustaWestland defence deal. ...
08:27 AM, Feb 16, 2013
The Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters. ...
10:33 PM, Feb 15, 2013
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday said it would continue training its pilots on the three AgustaWestland helicopters procured by it till the government takes a final decision on the controversial Rs 3,600 crore deal for 12 such choppers. ...
08:50 PM, Feb 15, 2013
India will make a fresh request to Italy for information on alleged kickbacks received during the supply of AgustaWestland's VVIP helicopters, sources said on Friday. The Italian probe report into the chopper deal has explained how the kickback money in the deal reached the cousins of former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi. ...
05:07 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Distinguished fellow at ORF Mohan Guruswamy joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the AgustaWestland chopper deal bribery allegations. ...
04:42 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Even as the UPA government's factsheet on the AgustaWestland helicopter deal can bring embarrassment for the Congress, three key decision makers who were involved in finalising the deal including President Pranab Mukherjee enjoy Constitutional immunity. The Defence Ministry's factsheet categorically states that the tender was finalised in 2005 - a time when President Pranab was the defence minister, SP Tyagi was Air Force Chief, Bharat Vir Wanchoo was SPG Chief...
12:30 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
Ousted Finnmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi who is being held in jail but has not been charged, faces allegations of paying bribes to win contract for the company's AgustaWestland unit to supply helicopters for use by Indian VVIPs. ...
11:47 AM, Feb 15, 2013
The UPA government's factsheet could prove to be more embarrassing for itself and President Pranab Mukherjee during whose stint as the defence minister the AgustaWestland deal was cleared. The Defence Ministry's factsheet categorically states that the tender was finalised in 2005 during Pranab Mukherjee's stint as the Defence Minister. ...
08:20 AM, Feb 15, 2013
The UPA government went into damage control on Thursday over the AgustaWestland chopper deal, issuing a detailed factsheet on the AgustaWestland deal, putting the blame on the NDA. The Congress has alleged that in 2003, the then National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra wrote to the then defence secretary that the existing rules were unfair as it allowed only single bidding and that the qualifying height of the choppers should be...
07:49 AM, Feb 15, 2013
The Italian probe report into the AgustaWestland chopper deal has explained how the kickback money in the deal reached the cousins of former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi. ...
11:18 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The man in the line of fire in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi, has so far maintained that he has had nothing to do with the VVIP chopper deal. However, details coming out of the Italian probe report raise some very uncomfortable questions for him and provide some very specific details about the Tyagi connection to the deal. ...
09:58 PM, Feb 14, 2013
