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		<title>Rafale wins MMRCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French Dassault fighter aircraft Rafale has been selected to be the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Dassault beat the four-nation consortium&#8217;s Eurofighter on price, with the fighter being identified as L1, or the lowest technically qualified bid. StratPost understands that Dassault has been issued a letter from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafale wins MMRCA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French Dassault fighter aircraft Rafale has been selected to be the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Dassault beat the four-nation consortium&#8217;s Eurofighter on price, with the fighter being identified as L1, or the lowest technically qualified bid. StratPost understands that Dassault has been issued a letter from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafale wins MMRCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French Dassault fighter aircraft Rafale has been selected to be the Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) of the Indian Air Force (IAF). Dassault beat the four-nation consortium&#8217;s Eurofighter on price, with the fighter being identified as L1, or the lowest technically qualified bid. StratPost understands that Dassault has been issued a letter from [...]]]></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>&#8217;71 war martyr remembered by school</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Lieutenant Radha Mohan Naresh was killed in action on December 10, 1971, defending the Raipur Crossing, one of the fordable points of the Munnawar Tawi river, the Indian line of defense for the Akhnoor Sector, ten days after being commissioned into the IX Jat Regiment at the age of 21.]]></description>
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		<title>MDL-Pipavav JV blocked: MoD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Ministry of Defense has put on hold the proposed Joint Venture between government-owned Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) and Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company Limited.]]></description>
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		<title>MoD calls in white collar sleuths in veterans&#8217; jobs fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/mod-calls-in-white-collar-sleuths-in-veterans-jobs-fraud</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a first, the Ministry of Defense has called in the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to investigate a case of a conspiracy to improperly procure contracts from the office of the Directorate General of Resettlement.]]></description>
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		<title>Ministry rejection of chief&#8217;s age plea legally unsound: Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Army Sunday said the defense ministry's ruling that General Vijay Kumar Singh's year of birth should be 1950 was based on records of the Military Secretary's branch, which had no jurisdictional authority on the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Defense sector to gain from $30 billion inflow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian defense industry will benefit from an inflow of $30 billion as offsets through military procurements from abroad over the next decade, according to a report submitted to parliament Wednesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Defense proposal caught in red tape</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/defense-proposal-caught-in-red-tape</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the committee's report on budgetary demands for grants for 2011-12 submitted to Lok Sabha(Indian Lower House of Parliament) Wednesday, the defense ministry has told the committee that differences with the finance ministry on its plan size had led to it not being finalized yet.]]></description>
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