New Delhi: India will host the AeroIndia-2021 air show in Bengaluru only on business days from Feb. 3 to 5, to conform to global COVID-19 pandemic safety standards and precautions. Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh, who carried out a review of the air show preparations, directed the organisers, […]
New Delhi: Just a week after India‘s new defence procurement rules came into force, the Narendra Modi government today said it has abolished the Banking Offset provisions for arms deals with foreign companies worth over Rs 2,000 crore (~$273 million), where offset is mandatory. The Ministry of Defence, […]
(Editor’s Note: First update on June 23 with Department of Defence Production comments on Offset Guidelines in the last paragraph. Second update with details of July 17 amended order keeping the policy on Banking Offsets in abeyance in paragraph one.) New Delhi: India kept in abeyance its June […]