Two defence deals to be signed during PM’s Moscow visit

October 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Russia are likely to sign two major agreements to boost defence cooperation between the two countries during Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow later this year.

September 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia and Venezuela signed Thursday a package of deals, including one to develop the Latin American country's Orinoco oil belt, with estimated reserves of 235 billion barrels of heavy oil. Venezuela's PdVSA state oil firm and a consortium of major Russian producers signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in Orinoco, and a separate memo on establishing a joint venture to develop the Junin-6 field.

September 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia's foreign ministry Thursday said it has no official information on an alleged unannounced visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week. Israeli newspapers, including Haaretz, have cited unnamed officials as saying that Netanyahu was in Moscow Monday to discuss Russian-Iranian arms deals.

September 3rd, 2009 MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and India will discuss cooperation in trade, economics, science, nuclear power and space industry, at talks in Moscow later Thursday, a Kremlin source said. Pratibha Patil was invited to pay an official visit by Dmitry Medvedev and arrived Wednesday.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil leaves Wednesday on a week-long visit to Russia and Tajikistan that is set to boost India's time-tested relations with Moscow and the energy-rich Central Asian republic. Patil will be accompanied by Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, two members of parliament and senior officials.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be visiting Russia separately in next five months to discuss strategic issues of bilateral cooperation, including defence, nuclear energy, trade and space. Patil will pay a state visit in September followed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to Moscow for the India-Russia Annual Summit in December.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and United States on Monday signed three agreements, including a strategically important Defence pact besides the two countries also announced the beginning of strategic dialogue. India and the U.S.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and the US Monday signed three agreements on science and technology, space cooperation and end-user monitoring accord that will pave way for more defence deals between the two countries. The agreements were signed between visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Minister of External Affairs S.M.

July 3rd, 2009 MOSCOW - Moscow and Washington will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to the American troops in Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's visit to the Russian capital, an official said Friday. The signing of the pacts will reflect "the political decision on the resumption of full-scale military contacts between Russia and the United States", which were frozen after the war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia last year, Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko has said.

June 26th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia and the US will sign a military cooperation deal during President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow in early July, Russia's top military general said Friday. "We discussed a number of very serious and important matters related both to international and regional security.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor will begin his four-day visit to Chile from today. During his official visit, General Kapoor will interact with senior military and civilian defence officials and discuss various contemporary defence related issues.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - To tackle corruption in defence deals and to bring transparency in defence procurements, Defence Minister A K Antony on Wedneday said the government will not hesitate to cancel contracts "if there is malpractice" in procurements. Antony addressing a seminar told the army officers and industry representatives that the government would not tolerate "wheeling dealing or corruption".

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Close on the heels of a $2 billion missile deal with the Israeli Aerospace Industry (IAI), India has signed yet another deal with an Israeli defence company to build a munition factory in Bihar forgoing the mandatory offset clause, a senior official said. The Rs.12 billion/$240 million deal with the Israel Military Industries Ltd.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Army chief General Deepak Kapoor will undertake an official visit to France from today. During his four-day visit, the Army chief will interact with senior military and civilian defence hierarchy and discuss various contemporary defence related issues.

March 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Army chief General Deepak Kapoor will undertake an official visit to France from March 31 to April 3. During his visit, the Army chief will interact with senior military and civilian defence hierarchy and discuss various contemporary defence related issues.