Govt selects Mazagon Docks and L&T for mega sub-building project with foreign collaboration; Adani ejected out of race
(WorldNews India)

NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has shortlisted only defence shipyard Mazagon Docks (MDL) and private ship-builder L&T in the race to bag the long-pending project to construct six new stealth submarines with foreign collaboration, effectively torpedoing Congress allegations that Adani Defence was being favoured in the over Rs 50,000 crore deal. The defence acquisitions council (DAC) chaired by Rajnath Singh on Tuesday also approved the names of five foreign submarine-builders who can tie-up with either of the two Indian `strategic partners (SPs)`, MDL or L&T, to present their joint bids to execute the complex...