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Bofors fully transferred tech to India in 80s, I even proposed made-in-India guns to Cong govt, but...: Baba Kalyani's explosive revealBharat Forge Chairman Baba Kalyani revealed India's failure to utilize the Bofors technology transfer from the 1980s, lamenting the exclusi...
Shot in the arm for Indian Army soon with delivery of Dhanush 155mm artillery gunThe Indian Army is set to soon be handed over the indigenously-developed howitzer 'Dhanush', also known as 'desi bofors'.
Gun Carriage Factory hands over three 'Dhanush' guns to armyThe trials saw some 2,000 rounds being successfully fired from the gun in different climatic conditions like in snowy, desert and hostile a...
PAC asks defence ministry to share all missing Bofors filesThe six-member sub-committee on defence, headed by BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, is looking into the long-pending non- compliance of certain a...
Dhanush artillery gun clears final test, ready for induction: OfficialBetween June 2-6, fifty rounds of shells each were fired from six Dhanush guns, Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) Senior General Manager SK Singh ...
PAC may finalise Bofors report in Budget sessionThe main function of PAC is to examine an audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India after it has been placed in Parliame...
Have enough evidence to file petition, says CBI on Bofors caseCBI's submission came even as Attorney General K K Venugopal had advised the government that the investigating agency should not file a SLP...
Bofors scandal was a media trial: President Pranab MukherjeeDays ahead of his visit to Sweden, President Pranab Mukherjee said the Bofors scandal was a media trial, and had not been proven in court.
Desi Bofors howitzer to be tested again, Army keeps fingers crossedThe Army has not inducted a single modern 155mm gun for the last three decades since the infamous Bofors scandal.
L&T in race for Rs 2,000-cr howitzer tenderThe gun being offered by the Indian firm is learnt to have been built and developed in collaboration with South Korean Samsung Techwin.
Desi Bofors to plug gap in Army’s long-range firepowerTwo prototypes of the 155mm\45-calibre guns have been developed, one with 68% indigenous parts and the other with 46%, and have been "satis...
- CAG pulls up Army, MoD for delay in buying artillery guns
The CAG, in its latest report on defence acquisitions tabled in Parliament, has criticized the Army, defence ministry for delay in procurin...
- Bofors reloaded: Defence ministry stung again
Allegations of kickbacks paid to middlemen in purchase of Bofors artillery guns led to one of the worst electoral defeats for Congress part...
- Bofors payoffs: Twists and turns in case against Quattrocchi
The scandal became an unprecedented case of corruption and contributed to the defeat of Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party in the general electi...
- Bofors payoff case: Delhi court closes case against Quattrocchi
An income tax tribunal in its order issued earlier, indicated how much money Quattrocchi and Win Chaddha were paid by Bofors as bribes.
- Bofors case: Court to decide Quattrocchi's fate tomorrow
The fate of the over two-decade-old, politically sensitive Bofors payoff case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi is likely to ...
- PM leading the most corrupt govt in Indian history: Jaitley
"People say he (PM Singh) is personally honest. It is a strange honesty that he leads the most corrupt govt in India since 1947," BJP leade...
- Quattrocchi, Jain got kickbacks in Bofors: ex-CBI officer
An ex-CBI officer who supervised the case claimed that alleged Hawala dealer S K Jain told the probe agency he and Ottavio Quattrocchi rece...
- High level corruption in Bofors gun deal: CPI-M
Asking the government to pursue the Bofors gun deal pay-offs case, the CPI(M) today said the way it has been handled so far was "a continui...
- Fernandes makes a joke of himself
Under attack from BJP on his reported remarks on Bofors, former defence minister George Fernandes on Sunday sought to downplay the controve...