New Delhi: The CBI is looking into the payments made by defence PSU BEML to Tatra Sipox UK for the supply of all terrain trucks and plans to send judicial request to the United Kingdom seeking details of its financial transactions and ownerships. The agency suspects that payments from BEML were actually going to a tax haven, CBI sources said, adding that they are probing into it but added that...
07:40 PM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday raided the Bangalore office on Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) and seized the records related to the Tatra trucks deal, sources said. The investigating agency is likely to question BEML Chairman & Managing Director VRS Natarajan in connection with the deal. The CBI has also sought Defence Ministry's help to study all contracts between Tatra Sipox UK and BEML, and...
05:22 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has sought sanction of the Defence Ministry to probe BEML chief VRS Natarajan in some complaints in which preliminary inquiry has been registered by it. However, no sanction has been sought for a probe against him in the Tatra supply deal, agency sources said. CBI sources said the complaints were received in its Bangalore branch over a period of time and preliminary enquiries were registered by...
09:48 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to the revelations in the Tatra trucks deal, former Army Chief General (Retd) Shankar Roy Chowdhury has blamed the Defence Ministry saying it has kept all previous Army chiefs in the dark. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, General (Retd) Shankar Roy Chowdhury said, "The Army Chief was not informed about the pricing, there should be better integration between the Army Chief and the Defence Ministry." Following...
08:56 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Tatra truck deal is at the heart of army chief General VK Singh's allegations that he was offered a bribe. The all terrain Tatra trucks, the army's lifeline, have been in use for over a decade, but the General is understood to have been opposed to the continuation of the deal. In addition to alleging they were substandard, the army chief has said he was offered a...
10:24 PM, Apr 02, 2012
DRDO chief VK Saraswat on Saturday defended the use of Tatra trucks saying the trucks had rather performed well. ...
03:54 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: Dismissing Army Chief General VK Singh's comments on Tatra trucks as "not true", state-owned BEML (formerly Bharat Earth Movers Limited) on Friday said that it had never received any single complaint from the force in its over two decades association. At a press conference here, he said he had "great respect" for the army chief but did not agree with his reported remarks that the Tatra trucks were...
07:37 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) Chairman and Managing Director VRS Natarajan on Friday at a Press Conference at the Defence Expo said the claims made by Karnataka leader D Hanumanthappa are not related to the company or its performance. Natrajan said that the company has replied to the complaint related to the Tatra-BEML deal. Natarajan said that Tatra trucks are of world-class quality and there is no other...
04:36 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has targeted Defence Minister AK Antony for the first time over the Tatra deal controversy with party leader Prakash Javadekar demanding the Defence Minister's resignation in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. "I raised the matter of Tatra trucks in the Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha. I had asked why action was not taken by the Defence Minister when the Army Chief had...
01:27 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh was not offered any bribe to clear the purchase of Tatra trucks for the defence forces, claimed Ravi Rishi, Chairman of Vectra Group, the largest shareholder of Tatra trucks. Ravi Rishi said that his company had no direct dealings with the Defence Ministry or the Army Chief. He also rubbished the allegation that Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh, who has been accused by the...
05:49 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Vectra group, the largest shareholder of the consortium Tatra Holding that owns Tatra, which is facing controversy following Army chief General VK Singh's bribery charges, has said it is deeply concerned and anguished by the "unfounded allegations". General Singh had alleged that he was offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore by a lobbyist to clear the sale of a tranche of 600 'substandard' Tatra trucks for...
08:13 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has written to the Defence Ministry on the bribery allegations made by Army Chief General VK Singh requesting that all signed documents, files and correspondence related to the Tatra truck deal be kept in safe custody. The agency, which is investigating the bribery allegation levelled by General Singh against a former Army officer for offering him Rs 14 crore to clear the...
03:48 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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11:55 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: General VK Singh's allegations that he was offered a bribe on behalf of the makers of the Tatra trucks has opened a can of worms. Referring to Tatra, General Singh in a media interview had claimed that a lobbyist had offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore to clear a procurement of tranche of 600 'substandard' vehicles. In fact, the Tatra deal was always under scrutiny for...
11:41 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: None of the three services has complained against the British origin Tatra trucks, which are in the news in the wake of Army chief Gen VK Singh's allegation of offer of bribes to him by a lobbyist. "We have never received any complaint from the armed forces. Yet there are certain after sales service issues which keep coming up as they were procured over a period of 10-12...
12:28 AM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 10 people died in an accident in Bankura district on Saturday when a truck collided head on with another vehicle. The dead included four women and two children. The accident occurred in the Sarenga district of Bankura. Four others are said to have been critically injured in the accident. ...
06:43 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Anantnag: An angry mob on Saturday set ablaze an Army vehicle after a man was run over by it in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, police said. Twenty seven-year-old Yasir Ahmad Wani died on the spot when he was hit by a truck belonging to the security force near Khanabal in Anantnag district at 3:15 pm, they said. The death of the man led to spontaneous protests in the town...
07:46 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Asia Motor Works (AMW) unveiled two new trucks and its bus at the 2012 Auto Expo held in Delhi. The trucks are 4928 TR tractor, 2528 TP tipper while the new bus is a 14.3-metre long, front engined one called the Magnus. The 4928 TR tractor is a 49-tonne tractor gets a new cabin and is powered by a 270PS, common-rail, electronically controlled, Cummins diesel engine, mated to a nine-speed...
07:07 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Ambala: Ten children on their way to school were killed and 23 others were injured when the bus carrying them collided head-on with a truck amid heavy fog on Saha-Shahabad road near here this morning. Police said visibility was poor due to a thick blanket of fog in the area and the two vehicles collided head-on. The victims were in the age group of 5 to 8 years and were...
12:55 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Chaman: Sleeping in a freezing cab, running out of money and worried about militant attacks, Ghulab is one of thousands of truck drivers stranded as a result of Pakistan's blockade of the Afghan border to NATO and US war supplies. But they and the businessmen who run what has been a lucrative trade for most of the last decade say they support the decision to shut the frontier in retaliation...
03:27 AM, Dec 10, 2011
