Far from the damaging allegations of bribery in the VVIP helicopter deal, India's political brass assembled at Pokhran on Friday to witness the first Air Force day-night firepower demonstration named 'Iron Fist'. ...
03:29 PM, Feb 23, 2013
In the latest development in the tainted chopper deal, AgustaWestland on Friday replied to the showcause notice of the Indian government, denying any wrongdoing on its part. The company maintained that no rules were broken in connection with the VVIP chopper deal with India. ...
09:04 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The CBI team is likely to return from Italy on Friday with not much success as the Italian officials refused to share their probe report in the tainted AgustaWestland deal. The CBI team met the top management of Finmeccanica who have assured cooperation in the investigation. ...
08:49 AM, Feb 22, 2013
The AgustaWestland chopper deal will be discussed in Parliament after March 4 under rule 193, which does not entail voting. The allegations of corruption in the deal has led to a blame game between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The main Opposition party had said that they will raise the issue in Parliament during the Budget Session. ...
07:05 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Parliament is set to discuss the AgustaWestland chopper deal after March 4 under Rule 193, which does not entail voting. Meanwhile, in the latest development concerning the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, which went as part of probe to Italy, the top management of Finmeccanica has assured assistance and relevant papers. ...
06:57 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The Budget Session of Parliament beginning on Thursday looks set to be stormy with Opposition vowing to strongly raise issues like corruption and inflation even though government expressed readiness to discuss all issues and order any kind of probe into the chopper scam. ...
07:44 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Speaking on the AgustaWestland chopper deal issue on the eve of the Budget Session, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said that he has told all the political parties that the government was open to all kinds of investigations. "It is not just an issue of corruption but it is an investigation overseas which is a slur on India," Nath said. ...
11:19 PM, Feb 20, 2013
CNN-IBN's political editor in Europe, Sanjay Suri, spoke to Italian legal experts to try and find out whether India can gain access to the Italian probe report on AgustaWestland deal. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Former Air chief marshal SP Tyagi's cousin Sanjeev Tyagi on Saturday rubbished allegations of his involvement in the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai, Sanjeev, mentioned in the Italian probe reports as 'Julie' Tyagi, said that the allegations against him and his cousin SP Tyagi were baseless and had maligned the image of their families. ...
09:41 PM, Feb 16, 2013
As the CBI gets set to seek out more details to begin their probe into the AgustaWestland chopper deal, CNN-IBN is trying to trace how the bribe money found its way into India. Companies were floated just to bring in massive amounts of money to bribe individuals under the garb of engineering contracts. ...
07:14 PM, Feb 16, 2013
With elections just weeks away, the Italian media has begun playing down the AgustaWestland chopper deal that led to the arrest of Finmeccanica boss Giuseppe Orsi. ...
06:50 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Facing threat of cancellation of its deal to supply 12 AW-101 choppers to India, AgustaWestland on Saturday said it was preparing to clarify the points raised by the Indian government in this regard. The Defence Ministry had on Friday issued a show cause notice to AgustaWestland of the UK asking why the contract should not be scrapped in view of the recent corruption allegations in the case. ...
05:39 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
As the Ministry of Defence on Friday initiated the process to scrap the deal with AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters, the CBI, which is probing into the case, has decided to send a team to Italy within a week. ...
11:52 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
A new angle has now been uncovered in the AgustaWestland chopper deal. CNN-IBN has accessed French court documents which reveal that Christian Michel, the man accused of taking 60 per cent of kickbacks in the AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal, was involved in earlier defence deals in India too. ...
06:11 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
Former Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirit Somaiya on Friday wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking an investigation into the role of Rahul Gandhi's political aide Kanishka Singh in the AgustaWestland 101 helicopter deal. Somaiya has reportedly claimed that Emaar MGF Land Limited owned by Kanishka Singh's relatives benefitted from the chopper deal. ...
04:55 PM, Feb 15, 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
