Engine of indigenisation

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 22nd Dec 15



The defence ministry estimates that India
will buy foreign military aero engines worth Rs 350,000 crore over the next two
decades. While indigenising our military fleet, successive governments have neglected
the development and manufacture of aero engines, which account for one-third
the cost of a new military aircraft. Unless we build a

Offsets fetch growing interest from aerospace manufacturers

By Ajai
Shukla

Belgaum

Business Standard, 19th Dec 15



On Thursday
in Hyderabad, a small Indian firm called Aequs Aerospace signed an agreement
with global giant, Boeing, for manufacturing components for the Chinook CH-47 helicopter
that the Indian Air Force (IAF) bought this year.



Aequs,
which operates from a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Belgaum (officially Belagavi),
will be a

Parrikar faces Goa storm over land acquisition for Defexpo and Aero India

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 23rd Nov 15



Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar�s home
state, Goa, is seething with resentment at their former chief minister�s
initiative to obtain for the defence ministry 150 acres of priceless land in Betul,
Goa.



Parrikar wants the land for shifting India�s
two major defence exhibitions to Goa --- Defexpo (land and naval systems), and
Aero India