Daily Times, 15 Jul 2010
NEW DELHI: Despite the Indian Army's depleted capability of artillery with nothing except 20-year-old Bofors guns in its arsenal to fight an enemy, the Rs 15,000-crore purchase of the towed long-range heavy artillery guns has been stalled yet again for the fifth time since 2002.
The field trials that were to take place this month have been called off as only one bidder was left after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) asked the Defence Ministry last week to blacklist the only competitor, Singapore Technologies Kinetics, and three other foreign companies. Full Story
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