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Inside Track: Rip Van Winkle CBI
April 07, 2025 7:47 am
Government departments specialise in circular movements leading nowhere to please the government of the day. But the CBI surely takes the cake in its recent claims of still investigating the Bofors case.
Bofors scam: CBI sends judicial request to US, seeks information from investigator
March 06, 2025 2:37 am
In 2017, private investigator Michael Hershman had alleged that the Bofors scam probe was derailed by the Congress government and said he was willing to share details with the CBI.
Plea in Bofors scam pending since 2005, advocate urges SC for urgent hearing
March 10, 2024 7:48 am
According to the advocate, the seniormost officers of the Army, including its Chief of Staff, consecutively for four years in a series of trials and meetings “preferred Sofma over Bofors since it had a better shooting range of 29 kms, while Bofors had only 21 kms”.
Like Bofors, set up JPC for Rafale deal: Digvijaya to PM
July 06, 2021 9:29 pm
"France has started a probe in the Rafale case, but in India, where commission was paid, no inquiry is being conducted. If one compares the Rafale deal with the Bofors case, the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had, on his own, constituted a JPC," Singh said.
Share all missing Bofors files: PAC to Defence Ministry
July 30, 2017 5:26 pm
The six-member sub-committee on defence, headed by BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, is looking into the long-pending non-compliance of certain aspects of the CAG report on the Bofors guns deal
Congress objects to revised Maharashtra state board Class IX textbook
July 04, 2017 1:41 am
The Congress issued a statement on Monday demanding that the books be recalled and corrected. “The textbook makes no mention of the fact that the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi in the Bofors case.
India gets new howitzers: Here is how the artillery lineup looks now
May 18, 2017 8:04 pm
The complete induction of the 145 guns is expected to be completed by June 2021.
Bofors case, a media trial; court never established scam: President Mukherjee
May 27, 2015 1:10 am
"I was the defence minister of the country long after Bofors, and all my generals certified that this is one of the best guns we are having," said President Pranab Mukherjee.
Rear view: Rajiv’s resounding defeat in 1989
February 02, 2015 2:42 am
His attempts, at home and abroad, to mitigate the opposition’s challenge came to nought.
Bofors: After 11 yrs, former CM moves Delhi HC to quash FIR
October 13, 2014 10:20 am
Solanki has moved a petition before the court for quashing the FIR that was registered by the CBI in 2003.
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