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Fresh Batch Of Three Rafale Fighter Jets Leave France For India
A fresh batch of three Rafale Jet fighters left for India, the Indian embassy in France has informed. The fifth set of these planes had arrived late in April after flying 8,000 kilometres non-stop.
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No Question Of FIR Registration In Rafale Deal: Centre To Supreme Court
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that there was no question of either registration of an FIR or investigation by CBI in the Rafale fighter jets deal as the top court had already concluded that there was no reason for intervention by it on the "sensitive issue".
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Election 2019: Priyanka Gandhi's Swipe At PM's "Cloudy" Remark, With A Rafale Angle
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "defence expert" over his comments on Balakot airstrikes where he suggested that clouds could prevent help Pakistani radar from detecting Indian fighter planes during the operation.
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"Anil Ambani Can't Even Make A Paper Plane": Rahul Gandhi's Rafale Jibe
As Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed a packed crowd in Gujarat's Gandhinagar after the Congress Working Committee meet today, the theme of his speech was clear as soon as he started speaking - target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale fighter jet deal.
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"Can Deliver More Rafales, 100 Good Number": Dassault CEO On Row
Thirty-six Rafale fighter planes will be delivered in the next two years and "more" will be come if India wants, Dassault CEO Eric Trappier said today on the sidelines of the Aero India show in Bengaluru.
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10 Points From Nirmala Sitharaman's Reply On Rafale Debate In Parliament
The firestorm over the Rafale fighter jet deal is far from over. In a heated debate in parliament on Friday, punctuated by questions and accusations from the opposition, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave an extensive response that lasted for more than two hours. Attacking the Congress for questioning her and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in...
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No Probe Into Rafale Deal, Supreme Court Dismisses Petition
An investigation is not needed into the deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets, which is at the heart of a huge government-opposition row, the Supreme Court said today, dismissing petitions. The government had opposed it, questioning the court's expertise to review the Rs. 59,000-crore deal for 36 planes with French firm Dassault. The court has said the p...
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HAL Planes Dropped Bombs In Kargil War: Rahul Gandhi On Rafale Deal
Launching a sharp attack on the central government over the Rafale jet deal, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL, had made the fighter planes that dropped bombs on Pakistani soldiers during the Kargil war in 1999, but the government still sidelined the com...
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"Can Make Better Rafale, Give Me Contract": Congress MP Tells Parliament
The Rafale fighter jet deal sponsored some of the most piercing attacks yet by the opposition on the government as Congress leaders raised slogans, waved placards and demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into the high-profile defence contract on the last day of the current session of parliament. Waving a paper plane model, one Congress le...
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"Smells Like Scam": Rahul Gandhi On Rafale Deal
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that he smelled a scam in the Rafale deal, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi "squirmed" when questions over the price of the fighter planes were raised in Parliament
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'Shameful': Nirmala Sitharaman Rebuts Congress Charge On Rafale Deal
A day after Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa rebutted accusations that the Modi government had negotiated an overpriced deal to buy Rafale fighter jets, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today delivered a stinging rejoinder to the Congress, calling the allegations leveled by the opposition "shameful" and a "disservice" to the armed ...
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Government Offers To Buy 200 Foreign Combat Jets - If They're Made-In-India
India is offering to buy hundreds of fighter planes from foreign manufacturers - as long as the jets are made in India and with a local partner, air force officials say.
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Ready To Make Rafale In India, Says Dassault CEO
With the deal for 36 Rafale jets in the kitty, Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier today said the French company is game for the 'Make in India' initiative and open to manufacturing the fighter aircraft in India if the plane is shortlisted for a bigger order.
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France Offers To Kickstart Kaveri Engine For Tejas
France has offered to help India revive the unsuccessful Kaveri engine project for indigenous Tejas aircraft and a host of other high-end collaboration as part of the offsets in the multi-billion Euro Rafale fighter plane deal which is now in the final stages.
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When PM Was Buying Rafales, Parrikar Was Buying Fish In Goa: Digvijaya Singh
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was striking the Rafale fighter plane deal in France, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Goa buying fish, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said today, criticising Mr Parrikar for ignoring his sensitive central ministry brief.
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Fresh Batch Of Three Rafale Fighter Jets Leave France For India
A fresh batch of three Rafale Jet fighters left for India, the Indian embassy in France has informed. The fifth set of these planes had arrived late in April after flying 8,000 kilometres non-stop.
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No Question Of FIR Registration In Rafale Deal: Centre To Supreme Court
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that there was no question of either registration of an FIR or investigation by CBI in the Rafale fighter jets deal as the top court had already concluded that there was no reason for intervention by it on the "sensitive issue".
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Election 2019: Priyanka Gandhi's Swipe At PM's "Cloudy" Remark, With A Rafale Angle
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "defence expert" over his comments on Balakot airstrikes where he suggested that clouds could prevent help Pakistani radar from detecting Indian fighter planes during the operation.
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"Anil Ambani Can't Even Make A Paper Plane": Rahul Gandhi's Rafale Jibe
As Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed a packed crowd in Gujarat's Gandhinagar after the Congress Working Committee meet today, the theme of his speech was clear as soon as he started speaking - target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale fighter jet deal.
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"Can Deliver More Rafales, 100 Good Number": Dassault CEO On Row
Thirty-six Rafale fighter planes will be delivered in the next two years and "more" will be come if India wants, Dassault CEO Eric Trappier said today on the sidelines of the Aero India show in Bengaluru.
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10 Points From Nirmala Sitharaman's Reply On Rafale Debate In Parliament
The firestorm over the Rafale fighter jet deal is far from over. In a heated debate in parliament on Friday, punctuated by questions and accusations from the opposition, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave an extensive response that lasted for more than two hours. Attacking the Congress for questioning her and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in...
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No Probe Into Rafale Deal, Supreme Court Dismisses Petition
An investigation is not needed into the deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets, which is at the heart of a huge government-opposition row, the Supreme Court said today, dismissing petitions. The government had opposed it, questioning the court's expertise to review the Rs. 59,000-crore deal for 36 planes with French firm Dassault. The court has said the p...
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HAL Planes Dropped Bombs In Kargil War: Rahul Gandhi On Rafale Deal
Launching a sharp attack on the central government over the Rafale jet deal, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the state-owned aircraft manufacturer, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL, had made the fighter planes that dropped bombs on Pakistani soldiers during the Kargil war in 1999, but the government still sidelined the com...
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"Can Make Better Rafale, Give Me Contract": Congress MP Tells Parliament
The Rafale fighter jet deal sponsored some of the most piercing attacks yet by the opposition on the government as Congress leaders raised slogans, waved placards and demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into the high-profile defence contract on the last day of the current session of parliament. Waving a paper plane model, one Congress le...
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"Smells Like Scam": Rahul Gandhi On Rafale Deal
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that he smelled a scam in the Rafale deal, claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi "squirmed" when questions over the price of the fighter planes were raised in Parliament
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'Shameful': Nirmala Sitharaman Rebuts Congress Charge On Rafale Deal
A day after Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa rebutted accusations that the Modi government had negotiated an overpriced deal to buy Rafale fighter jets, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today delivered a stinging rejoinder to the Congress, calling the allegations leveled by the opposition "shameful" and a "disservice" to the armed ...
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Government Offers To Buy 200 Foreign Combat Jets - If They're Made-In-India
India is offering to buy hundreds of fighter planes from foreign manufacturers - as long as the jets are made in India and with a local partner, air force officials say.
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Ready To Make Rafale In India, Says Dassault CEO
With the deal for 36 Rafale jets in the kitty, Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier today said the French company is game for the 'Make in India' initiative and open to manufacturing the fighter aircraft in India if the plane is shortlisted for a bigger order.
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France Offers To Kickstart Kaveri Engine For Tejas
France has offered to help India revive the unsuccessful Kaveri engine project for indigenous Tejas aircraft and a host of other high-end collaboration as part of the offsets in the multi-billion Euro Rafale fighter plane deal which is now in the final stages.
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When PM Was Buying Rafales, Parrikar Was Buying Fish In Goa: Digvijaya Singh
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was striking the Rafale fighter plane deal in France, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was in Goa buying fish, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said today, criticising Mr Parrikar for ignoring his sensitive central ministry brief.
