Dassault Aviation Reliance Defence Partnership

An internal document of Dassault Aviation, the makers of the Rafale fighters that India is buying from France, shows the aerospace major picking Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as the offset partner in India was a "trade-off" for the 36 jet deal, according to a report by French investigative journal Mediapart.

There has been a significant addition to the rebuttals delivered on the Congress accusation that the Narendra Modi government negotiated an overpriced deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. This one comes right from the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa. On Thursday, he brushed aside the charges, saying the deal ne...

French diplomatic sources have categorically rejected allegations made by the Congress party that the Narendra Modi government had unfairly picked the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Limited to be the partner of the French company Dassault, which is contracted to supply the Indian Air Force with 36 state-of-the-art Rafale fighter jets. Reliance De...

Raising questions over the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress has accused the government of having compromised national interest and security while promoting "crony capitalism" and causing a loss to the public exchequer.

An internal document of Dassault Aviation, the makers of the Rafale fighters that India is buying from France, shows the aerospace major picking Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as the offset partner in India was a "trade-off" for the 36 jet deal, according to a report by French investigative journal Mediapart.

There has been a significant addition to the rebuttals delivered on the Congress accusation that the Narendra Modi government negotiated an overpriced deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. This one comes right from the Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa. On Thursday, he brushed aside the charges, saying the deal ne...

French diplomatic sources have categorically rejected allegations made by the Congress party that the Narendra Modi government had unfairly picked the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence Limited to be the partner of the French company Dassault, which is contracted to supply the Indian Air Force with 36 state-of-the-art Rafale fighter jets. Reliance De...

Raising questions over the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress has accused the government of having compromised national interest and security while promoting "crony capitalism" and causing a loss to the public exchequer.