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Defence Ministry suspends Munitions India executive director Anil Kumar in bribery caseAnil Kumar from Munitions India Ltd has been suspended following his arrest in a bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation has accu...- An Indian firm caught in arms scandal that toppled Estonian defence ministerAn Indian company faces a European arms supply scandal involving Estonia. Datasel SRL, owned by Nagpur-based Neco Group, is accused of cont...
- What is Dhanush artillery gun? Indigenous 155mm howitzer whose delay has drawn PAC’s criticismThe Public Accounts Committee criticized the Ministry of Defence for procurement delays. This resulted in the Army using aging Bofors guns ...
- Court pulls up CBI, MoD for not following basic rulesA special court has observed that CBI recommended closure of the Tatra-Vectra truck scandal case without even examining documents related t...
- Bofors pales into insignificance before Rafale 'scam', allege Yashwant Sinha, Arun ShourieSinha and Shourie raised a number of questions over the Rs 58,000 crore deal for procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.
- Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar: Bofors artillery guns are goodManohar Parrikar today described the Bofors guns as "good" but refused to comment on the President's alleged remarks on the original scanda...
- Border tense but red tape hits Army acquisition of big gunsDefence ministry sources said the Pentagon's "letter of offer and acceptance (LoA)" to sell 145 the M-777s to India for $737 million "expir...
- CCS and DAC clear major modernisation proposals, but operational gaps still handicap militaryThe CCS led by PM Modi cleared the third and fourth Pinaka rocket systems regiments for over Rs 3,300 crore. But the Navy is grappling with...
- Bofors report PAC's oldest 'pending' fileThe PAC is Parliament's oversight mechanism to keep a check on all government expenditure and is assisted by the CAG through its audit repo...
- Blacklisting of firms not to hinder procurement: Manohar ParrikarThe $750 million planned procurement of M777 ultra light howitzers from the US under the Foreign Military Sales route illustrates the gover...
- 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...
- No scandal in Rafale deal: Defence Minister SitharamanWithout naming the Congress, Sitharaman said, "false comparisons" were made between the price at which India was procuring the jets and the...
- IT companies eye offset contracts in new defence buy dealCos expect the govt to let them participate in defence offset contracts under the new Defence Procurement Procedure proposed to be announce...
- Government mulls defence procurement policy for transparent and faster military procurementsGovernment considers rolling out new defence procurement policy that will have norms for blacklisting firms and engagement of 'agents' and ...
- Procurement of howitzers artillery guns hit by cost issuesDefence Minister Arun Jaitley told the Lok Sabha that the deal has not progressed due to issues over cost and offsets requirements.
- Indian Bofors gun's barrel bursts during trialsA barrel of the indigenous- version of the Bofors howitzers burst during their trials in the Pokharan range, delaying plans to induct these...
- Government working to make defence acquisitions transparent: Manmohan SinghPM said the Government is taking steps to indigenise defence procurement and stimulate the development of the domestic defence industry.
- Massive revamp of MoD purchase procedure soonThe government is also finalizing a massive overhaul of defence procurement procedure, providing first opportunity in all contracts to Indi...
- India, the world’s largest arms importer doesn’t employ a single authorized agentPeople in the know say kickbacks in defence deals normally amount to 10%-12% of the total contract value, with the major chunk going to pol...
- Italian chopper deal: India bought helicopters Obama rejected as ‘costly’Obamafound the copters too exorbitant to pass muster in 2009. But Indian govt had no such qualms & inked Rs 3,546-cr deal.
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