Tag: Rafale fighter
The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of misleading the Lok Sabha by not revealing the price of the Rafale fighter jets bought from France and indicated it could move a motion of breach of privilege against them.....
Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being directly involved in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that he ran a parallel negotiation.....
While India and China remain locked in a military face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, France has dispatched the first five Rafale fighter aircraft which are to arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday.....
In 1988, just before Kashmir erupted with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, a young man from Anantnag, a small town in the Valley, was commissioned in the Indian Air Force. ....
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Thursday after two brief adjournments during Question Hour amid unrelenting protests by the opposition, which raised the Rafale deal among other issues, while NDA ally Shiv Sena demanded an ordinance to pave the way for the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya at the earliest.....
In a big boost for the IAF's combat capability, the Rafale aircraft finally touched down at Haryana's Ambala Air Force Station Ambala on July 29, 2020. The five French Rafale fighter jets landed after a 7,000-km flight from France which included an overnight pit stop in UAE and midair refueling. It was one of the most awaited events and surely has made the nation proud. Welcoming the jets in India, defence minister Rajnath Singh tweeted: "The Birds have landed safely in Ambala. The touch down of Rafale combat aircrafts in India marks the beginn....