Demanding that the contract for the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal be scrapped in the wake of bribery charges, CPI(M) on Wednesday said it would seek the government's response on the issue in the upcoming Budget Session of Parliament. "The contract for the helicopters should be cancelled. The CBI investigations should be supervised by the Supreme Court and only then the people will have the confidence that we will...
05:24 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Describing the Italian chopper deal as one having the "makings of a second Bofors scam", BJP on Wednesday asked the government as to how long it will "protect" bribe-takers and said it will raise the issue strongly during the Budget Session of Parliament. The main opposition also demanded that the helicopter deal should be reviewed and the supply of the remaining nine choppers be stopped till all doubts are cleared....
05:04 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Rejecting charges that it was not proactive in probing allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3600 crore VVIP chopper deal, Government today said it would act only according to the law and not to please the Opposition in this case. ...
03:04 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Former Air Chief Marshal Sashi P Tyagi, who is facing corruption allegations in the Rs 3,546 crore chopper deal with Italy's AgustaWestland, on Wednesday denied having any involvement in the case and said changes in the helicopter tender were made before his tenure started. He, however, said he is ready for an inquiry into the bribery case that led on Tuesday to the arrest of Giuseppe Orsi, CEO of Finmeccanica,...
11:11 AM, 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
A MiG-27 aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in Rajasthan's Barmer district on February 12, but the pilot ejected safely. ...
05:47 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel did not flee from Chattisgarh forests abandoning security personnel who had come under attack from Naxals, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne has told the Union Home Ministry. ...
11:12 AM, Feb 08, 2013
New inductions in the IAF such as Apache attack helicopters will be in support of operational plans of the Army, which is raising a new Strike Corps along the borders with China in the northeastern sector, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said here on February 5. ...
04:45 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Eight persons, who were injured in a fire at Maha Kumbh Mela, were airlifted to Delhi on an air ambulance of Indian Air Force (IAF) for emergency medical attention. "IAF immediately pressed into service an AN-32 aircraft (modified air ambulance) from Agra on requisition to airlift eight severely burnt pilgrims by Allahabad's District Magistrate and flew them out to Delhi at about 1215 hours yesterday," IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Gerard...
08:30 PM, Jan 26, 2013
ndia has just taken up development of the Rs 6,000 crore Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) that will have the capability to penetrate "longer distances" enemy territory by way of radars and electronic warfare systems without venturing into the region physically, a top defence official said on Friday. ...
04:13 PM, Jan 25, 2013
The first of 10 C-17 Globemaster III airlifters for the Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set to enter a US Air Force flight test programme at Edwards Base in Palmdale, California. ...
01:45 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The Indian Air Force showed off its technical skills when it flew an 80-year-old de Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth aircraft from Delhi and landed it at the airport Vadodara on Tuesday. "I enjoyed flying it," Group Captain D S Dangi said. The 'de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth' is a two-seater, single-bay bi-lane powered by a 145-horse power Gypsy Major four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine. ...
02:39 AM, Jan 23, 2013
India and the US have finalised a Rs 3000-crore deal for supplying 99 jet engines to be used in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' being developed by the DRDO. Around two years ago, India had selected the American company General Electric over its rival European Eurojet 2000 for the LCA Mark II programme expected to be ready around 2014-15. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 21, 2013
The Indian Air Force has ordered a probe into the Friday's incident in which its helicopter came under attack by suspected naxalites in the interiors of Chhattisgarh's Sukma district. One CRPF personnel was injured and the helicopter was damaged in the firing. ...
12:53 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Two policemen injured in naxal attack at Temelwada area of Sukma district were airlifted to Raipur for treatment on Saturday, Director General of Police, Ramniwas said. Naxals attacked the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) party on Friday during the road-opening task in the forests of Temelwada village under Chintagufa police station limits of Sukma district. ...
05:45 PM, Jan 19, 2013
An Air Force MI 17 helicopter made emergency landing in Sukma, and was fired at by suspected Maoists. ...
11:16 PM, Jan 18, 2013
A chopper of the Indian Air Force, which was sent to rescue two army jawans who were injured in Naxal attack, went missing from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh on Friday. It was, however, found around 40 minutes at Timarpur in Chhattisgarh. ...
06:50 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Contesting IAF's claim that the soon-to-be-procured Apache choppers would remain with it, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Monday said Government would take a final call in this regard. "The decsiion has to be taken by the government. This is a national asset from tax-payers' money and no service can say that it belongs to it, it belongs to the nation... We want the Apaches," he said on the sidelines...
03:20 AM, Jan 15, 2013
