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10:59 PM, Feb 15, 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
Geetika Sharma had committed suicide last year and in her suicide note, she had alleged harassment by former Haryana Home Minister Gopal Kanda. ...
10:13 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
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
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
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. ...
09:34 PM, Feb 14, 2013
As things get hot for the UPA over the tainted chopper deal, the blame game has acquired full momentum, with the Congress even dragging the dead. Brajesh Mishra, the National Security Advisor (NSA) during Atal Bihari Vajapyee's regime, was blamed for changing the rules of the bidding process. The Congress has now blamed the NDA for changing the rules of the bidding process for procurement of VVIP choppers which facilitated...
09:07 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Sanjeev Tyagi, alias Julie Tyagi, on Thursday broke his silence over the AgustaWestland chopper deal, saying the kickback allegations against him were malicious and baseless and denied any association with the defence sector. ...
06:47 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Under fire from all corners, the UPA government on Thursday released a factsheet on the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal. According to the factsheet, a global tender was floated in 2002 for helicopters. Only Eurocopter, France, was found suitable for acquisition. ...
06:28 PM, Feb 14, 2013
CNN-IBN's Surya Gangadharan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Agusta Westland chopper deal. ...
05:26 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The allegations of corruption swelling around the AgustaWestland deal raise critical questions about defence deals in India. Are they inevitably prone to corruption and have they badly affected the defence procure? Karan Thapar discusses this with a panel of experts. ...
04:53 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The tainted chopper deal worth Rs 3,600 crore with Italy's AgustaWestland has raised a lot of questions. On Wednesday, sources said that the government had decided put the deal on hold even as Opposition demanded that the deal be scrapped. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Defence Minister Jaswant Singh has defended the NDA government's decision to change the chopper deal norms in 2003, saying it was taken for purely professional reasons. "That's true that technical parameters were changed during that time. I don't see why there is so much excitement as there was a plausible and good reason. The original proposal emerged in 2000 and the Air Force...
12:34 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Former Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy has denied receiving any letter from the Prime Minister's Office in 2003 on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. "I don't think there was any request for proposal or anything that started in my time. We have been working on VVIP helicopters since 1993," S Krishnaswamy said. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 14, 2013
The Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal has now been put on hold by the government. All those named by the Italian probe report, including former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi, have denied the allegations. SP Tyagi has also dragged in some crucial names including Brajesh Mishra, the former National Security Advisor during the NDA regime. ...
07:45 AM, Feb 14, 2013
The government has put on hold the AgustaWestland helicopter deal, sources said on Wednesday. The move came even as the government, under fire over allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal, announced a CBI probe. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The government on Wednesday put the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal on hold after allegations of bribery were levelled directly at the former Air Chief Marshall, SP Tyagi by an Italian probe report. ...
11:25 PM, Feb 13, 2013
