New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday raised serious concerns over the AugustaWestland helicopter deal during talks with his British counterpart David Cameron. “I conveyed our concerns about allegations of unethical means used in AugustaWestland contract for purchase of helicopters,” Manmohan Singh said after meeting Cameron. The Indian Prime Minister also said that his […]

New Delhi : The UPA government’s trepidation over the fate of the Rs 3,546 crore contract to buy 12 AugustaWestland VVIP helicopters is out in the open after Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid expressed his reservation on the defence ministry’s plan to scrap the deal. A leading English newspaper reported on Tuesday that Khurshid is of […]

Mumbai : Amid the storm over alleged kickbacks in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal, Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai on Friday said an audit of the controversial deal is under progress and a report would be released soon. “CAG conducts audit of the defence ministry and we have done it in this case (AgustaWestland […]

New Delhi : In what may come as a major embarrassment for the Congress-led ruling coalition at the Centre, a factsheet prepared by the UPA government mentions President Pranab Mukherjee’s name in the controversial AgustaWestland chopper deal with Italy. Reports, Friday, said that the deal with Italian defence firm Finmeccanica for supplying 12 choppers for […]