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New Delhi : India and France today signed the Euro 7.87-billion (Rs 59,000 crore approx) deal for Rafale fighter jets, equipped with latest missiles and weapon system besides multiple India-specific modifications that will give the IAF cutting edge capability over arch rival ...

Negotiations for India to buy 36 French Rafale fighter jets are almost at the close, the defence ministry said, with sources saying the price will be set at around $ 9 billion (approx Rs 65,000 crore). Both sides had hoped ...

New Delhi: The talks on a likely Rafale combat jets deal between India and France moved a step ahead as both countries on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) to buy 36 jets. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that ...

French President Francois Hollande would chair a high-level meeting in Paris on Monday to thrash out the finer details of the nearly USD 5 billion deal for the sale of 36 Rafale jets to India in flyaway conditions. French sources ...

The priceless Indo-Russian project to co-develop the eponymous Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) is dying of neglect. With the Indian Air Force (IAF) brass focused single-mindedly on procuring 126 Rafale fighters, the air marshals fear that an FGFA on the ...

A French delegation will visit New Delhi this month to try to salvage an agreement to supply 126 Rafale fighter jets to the Indian Air Force, in one of the world’s biggest defence deals, which has hit a snag over ...

For the first time since January 31, 2012, when the French Rafale fighter was chosen as the future medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF), a top Indian official has admitted serious problems in negotiating the ...

India has assured France that all issues in the multi-billion dollar deal for the 126 Rafale combat aircraft would be ‘resolved in a fast-track manner’ as the two sides agreed to overcome the differences over the long -delayed project. The ...

France’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Laurent Fabius will push for the $ 20-billion Rafale deal, which is stuck for over two years now, in a meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The deal to buy ...