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		<title>Artillery procurement caught in snakes, ladders game: Army chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["The procurement game is a version of snakes and ladders where there is no ladder but only snakes, and if the snakes bite you somewhere, the whole thing comes back to zero," Singh said.]]></description>
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		<title>Army&#8217;s artillery buy in a confused mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the background of these challenges and the defence ministry's inaction on a decision to blacklist the Singapore-based company, the OFB mandate should not become an excuse for lack of movement on the procurement of artillery by the army. Already, the ministry has been reported to have indicated it cannot move on the procurement as the matter is sub judice. At the same time, it has not decided the issue either, as is evident from the observations of the court. This has held up the acquisition of crucial types of artillery again, after the multiple cancellation of tenders since the Bofors buy.]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore Technologies denies CAG report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arms company has contradicted the basis of the CAG audit, saying it signed a Memorandum of Understanding on offsets and collaborated production with the Ordnance Factory Board.]]></description>
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		<title>Bofors redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upgraded avatar is being displayed at the DefExpo in New Delhi.]]></description>
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		<title>India allows tainted weapon systems&#8217; trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Defense has allowed user trials of five weapons systems that were held up due to allegations of corruption against two of the vendors involved in the trials, ST Kinetics and Israel Military Industries.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Ghost of Bofors resides in South Block&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 08:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insider explains the legacy of the corruption scandal over the Bofors gun deal and how, while the Indian Army has always considered the weapon in question to be eminently satisfactory, the political and bureaucratic fallout continues to be such as to reduce any defense procurement to a crawl.]]></description>
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