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Supreme Court To Decide On Classified Rafale Documents Today: 10 Facts
The Supreme Court will decide today whether classified documents sourced by the media without authorisation can be considered evidence and a basis for re-examining its December verdict, which gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the deal for Rafale fighter jets. Citing internal notes of the defence ministry, a series of reports pu...
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Can Classified Rafale Papers Be Used As Evidence? Supreme Court Decides Today
The Supreme Court will today deliver its verdict on whether classified documents sourced from the Defence Ministry by the media without authorisation can be used as "evidence" in the Rafale fighter jet case.
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Supreme Court To Hear Requests To Review Rafale Order Today: 10 Points
The Supreme Court will today resume hearing petitions calling for a review of its Rafale case judgement from December that said there was no reason to doubt the decision-making process amid Congress allegations of corruption in the 2016 jet deal. The top court had in December dismissed petitions alleging that the government had gone for an overpric...
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Secret Rafale Papers Available To Enemy, Security Risk: Centre To Court
The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...
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"Unacceptable": Media Watchdog After Centre Targets The Hindu Over Rafale
The Indian Newspaper Society, the top body of the print media industry, expressed its outrage over the government's stand before the Supreme Court on the Rafale deal reportage and called for repealing of the Official Secrets Act today.
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Centre "Trying To Silence Media" Unconstitutionally: Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday alleged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was trying to silence the media through "unconstitutional means", condemning the Centre's threat of invoking action under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) against The Hindu newspaper in the Rafale case.
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Editors Guild "Denounces Threats" After Centre's Rafale Remarks In Court
The Editors Guild of India has "unequivocally" condemned the Attorney General's remarks before the Supreme Court pertaining to the documents based on which the media had reported on the Rafale deal, saying any attempt to use the Official Secrets Act against the media is as "reprehensible" as asking journalists to disclose their sources.
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Rafale Documents 'Stolen' From Defence Minister, Says Centre, Targeting The Hindu
Documents related to the Rafale jet deal have been stolen from the Defence Ministry, the government told the Supreme Court today, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stories on the purchase of 36 fighter jets from France amid opposition allegations of corruption.
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"How Can We Fight (Pak) F-16s Without Rafale?" Centre Argues In Top Court
India needs Rafale jets to defend the country "from Pakistani F-16 fighters that recently bombed us", the government said today at an open court hearing on petitions asking the Supreme Court to review its clean chit to the fighter jet deal with France.
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PM Modi's Rafale Deal Not "Better", Government's Negotiators Said: Report
A report in The Hindu newspaper on Wednesday said at least three senior Defence Ministry officials among the seven-member Indian Negotiating Team strongly disagreed with the government stand.
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"PM Lies Wherever He Goes": Rahul Gandhi At Chandrababu Naidu's Protest
N Chandrababu Naidu In Andhra Bhawan: On a day The Hindu newspaper published a report on anti-corruption conditions being dropped from the supply clause of the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi launched another fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the spot where Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu sat on a daylong fast.
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Government Dropped Anti-Corruption Conditions In Rafale Deal: Report
Key conditions for anti-corruption penalties and an escrow account for payments were dropped days before the Rafale deal was signed, The Hindu newspaper has reported, describing them as major and unprecedented concessions from a government that has repeatedly stressed on fighting corruption in defence deals.
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"Lies Peddled By Rahul Gandhi": BJP's 10-Point Rebuttal On Rafale
The BJP today amped up its twitter blitz on the Congress with a list of what it said were "lies peddled" by party chief Rahul Gandhi. All concerned Rafale, which occupied headlines yesterday after a report by The Hindu cited an internal note of the defence ministry that expressed strong reservations about the "parallel negotiations" conducted by of...
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More Questions As Centre Cites Manohar Parrikar's Reply To Rafale Note
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched an all-out attack on the Congress and dismissed as "selective journalism" a news report by The Hindu that said the defence ministry objected to the "parallel negotiations" by the Prime Minister's Office into the Rafale deal.
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"Flogging Dead Horse," Centre Says On Explosive Rafale Report: 10 Points
A news report on an internal note of the defence ministry - which recorded its objections to "parallel negotiations" by the Prime Minister's Office into the multi-billion dollar deal for Rafale fighter jets -- triggered a huge political row today. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said the report by The Hindu established that the PMO was directly involve...
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Supreme Court To Decide On Classified Rafale Documents Today: 10 Facts
The Supreme Court will decide today whether classified documents sourced by the media without authorisation can be considered evidence and a basis for re-examining its December verdict, which gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the deal for Rafale fighter jets. Citing internal notes of the defence ministry, a series of reports pu...
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Can Classified Rafale Papers Be Used As Evidence? Supreme Court Decides Today
The Supreme Court will today deliver its verdict on whether classified documents sourced from the Defence Ministry by the media without authorisation can be used as "evidence" in the Rafale fighter jet case.
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Supreme Court To Hear Requests To Review Rafale Order Today: 10 Points
The Supreme Court will today resume hearing petitions calling for a review of its Rafale case judgement from December that said there was no reason to doubt the decision-making process amid Congress allegations of corruption in the 2016 jet deal. The top court had in December dismissed petitions alleging that the government had gone for an overpric...
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Secret Rafale Papers Available To Enemy, Security Risk: Centre To Court
The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...
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"Unacceptable": Media Watchdog After Centre Targets The Hindu Over Rafale
The Indian Newspaper Society, the top body of the print media industry, expressed its outrage over the government's stand before the Supreme Court on the Rafale deal reportage and called for repealing of the Official Secrets Act today.
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Centre "Trying To Silence Media" Unconstitutionally: Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday alleged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government was trying to silence the media through "unconstitutional means", condemning the Centre's threat of invoking action under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) against The Hindu newspaper in the Rafale case.
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Editors Guild "Denounces Threats" After Centre's Rafale Remarks In Court
The Editors Guild of India has "unequivocally" condemned the Attorney General's remarks before the Supreme Court pertaining to the documents based on which the media had reported on the Rafale deal, saying any attempt to use the Official Secrets Act against the media is as "reprehensible" as asking journalists to disclose their sources.
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Rafale Documents 'Stolen' From Defence Minister, Says Centre, Targeting The Hindu
Documents related to the Rafale jet deal have been stolen from the Defence Ministry, the government told the Supreme Court today, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stories on the purchase of 36 fighter jets from France amid opposition allegations of corruption.
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"How Can We Fight (Pak) F-16s Without Rafale?" Centre Argues In Top Court
India needs Rafale jets to defend the country "from Pakistani F-16 fighters that recently bombed us", the government said today at an open court hearing on petitions asking the Supreme Court to review its clean chit to the fighter jet deal with France.
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PM Modi's Rafale Deal Not "Better", Government's Negotiators Said: Report
A report in The Hindu newspaper on Wednesday said at least three senior Defence Ministry officials among the seven-member Indian Negotiating Team strongly disagreed with the government stand.
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"PM Lies Wherever He Goes": Rahul Gandhi At Chandrababu Naidu's Protest
N Chandrababu Naidu In Andhra Bhawan: On a day The Hindu newspaper published a report on anti-corruption conditions being dropped from the supply clause of the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi launched another fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the spot where Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu sat on a daylong fast.
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Government Dropped Anti-Corruption Conditions In Rafale Deal: Report
Key conditions for anti-corruption penalties and an escrow account for payments were dropped days before the Rafale deal was signed, The Hindu newspaper has reported, describing them as major and unprecedented concessions from a government that has repeatedly stressed on fighting corruption in defence deals.
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"Lies Peddled By Rahul Gandhi": BJP's 10-Point Rebuttal On Rafale
The BJP today amped up its twitter blitz on the Congress with a list of what it said were "lies peddled" by party chief Rahul Gandhi. All concerned Rafale, which occupied headlines yesterday after a report by The Hindu cited an internal note of the defence ministry that expressed strong reservations about the "parallel negotiations" conducted by of...
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More Questions As Centre Cites Manohar Parrikar's Reply To Rafale Note
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched an all-out attack on the Congress and dismissed as "selective journalism" a news report by The Hindu that said the defence ministry objected to the "parallel negotiations" by the Prime Minister's Office into the Rafale deal.
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"Flogging Dead Horse," Centre Says On Explosive Rafale Report: 10 Points
A news report on an internal note of the defence ministry - which recorded its objections to "parallel negotiations" by the Prime Minister's Office into the multi-billion dollar deal for Rafale fighter jets -- triggered a huge political row today. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said the report by The Hindu established that the PMO was directly involve...
