The BJP on Wednesday rejected the government's proposal for setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the AgustaWestland chopper deal, saying the move was aimed at scuttling the probe as current Lok Sabha's term will end in 2014. ...
12:47 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present the Union Budget on Thursday. Given the likelihood of no major increase in defence spending, here is a look at what the priorities of the armed forces are. ...
10:26 AM, Feb 27, 2013
In a sharp contrast to US view on India's role in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama's Defence Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has alleged that India has over the years "financed problems" for Pakistan in the war-torn country. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The Chinese navy has inducted a new generation of stealth frigate, a media report said. China's first Type 056 stealth frigate was delivered to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) in Shanghai Monday, Xinhua reported. ...
12:42 PM, Feb 26, 2013
A Colonel-rank Defence PRO in Manipur and five others arrested for allegedly transporting illicit drugs estimated at over Rs 24 crore for smuggling to Myanmar were on Monday remanded to police custody till March 8. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thoubal, passed the order for police custody of the six, including Manipur Defence PRO Ajay Chaudhury arrested Sunday in Chandel district, following an application by investigating officer A Ghanashyam Sharma. ...
05:50 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Close allies Israel and the US, on Monday, successfully tested the Arrow anti-missile system for the first time, giving the Jewish state defense against "threats in the regional arena". ...
04:05 PM, Feb 25, 2013
A preliminary enquiry (PE) has been registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal. Sources say that former Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal (retd) SP Tyagi and his cousins Julie Tyagi and Dosca Tyagi have been named in the CBI PE. ...
02:05 PM, Feb 25, 2013
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
With the deal for procuring VVIP choppers from AgustaWestland facing the prospect of being scrapped, the DRDO on Wednesday said it has the capability to manufacture such helicopters even though it contended that producing anything entirely indigenously was impractical. ...
05:04 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Defence Minister AK Antony claims government is not divided on the chopper deal issue, and rules out quitting over it. ...
11:46 PM, Feb 19, 2013
"There is no end to human greed... greedy people are working around the world so I am sad about that but I will do my duty. I am not resigning" - Defence Minister AK Antony, the integrity wall of the Congress party, made it clear that he has nothing to hide in the Rs 3700 crore chopper deal and he is not going anywhere. ...
08:25 PM, Feb 19, 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
In his first public comments on the tainted Rs 3600 crore Italian chopper deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government has nothing to hide. He added that the government is ready to discuss everything during a Parliamentary forum on the chopper deal. ...
01:06 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Monday could prove to be a crucial day for former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed as a former defence minister in his cabinet is to depose against him in a magistrate court. Nasheed remains holed up in the Indian High Commission in Male. ...
10:29 AM, Feb 18, 2013
A joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Ministry of Defence is likely to leave for Italy on Sunday to probe the alleged kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal. CBI sources said the team will meet Italian prosecutors to ascertain the details of the case. ...
08:40 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram is planning to cut the public spending target for fiscal 2013/14 by up to 10 per cent from this year's original target, in what would be the most austere budget unveiled in recent history as he tries to avert a sovereign credit downgrade. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 16, 2013
CNN-IBN has accessed court judgement delivered by the commercial court of Paris, throwing more questions against Michel. ...
10:32 PM, Feb 15, 2013
