State-run Air India will take delivery of all 27 Boeing 787 aircraft it has on order, putting to rest speculation that it might reduce the size of its order because of its huge debt burden and mounting losses. “It is a good aircraft for Air India. We are not cutting any orders,” India’s aviation minister, Ajit Singh, confirms. The delivery of all the aircraft may take up to three years, Singh adds.

NEW DELHI — India is likely to induct the first squadron of 18 Medium-Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) into its air force by 2016, Defense Minister A.K. Antony told the lower house of Parliament on March 19.

NEW DELHI — India expects to induct its first Scorpene submarine beginning in 2015, three years behind the original schedule. All six submarines will be in service by 2018 at a revised cost of 235.62 billion rupees ($4.7 billion), nearly a 50-billion-rupee increase from the originally approved cost of 187.98 billion rupees, Defense Minister A.K. Antony tells the lower house of the Indian Parliament.