New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the Vectra group chief Ravinder Rishi’s plea for permission to visit UK for his medical treatment and to attend to his business there.
Facing a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in supply of all-terrain Tatra trucks to public sector Bharat Earth Movers Limited by his firm Tatra-Sipox [...]
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Tatragate India: Court dismisses Ravinder Rishi’s plea to go abroad
October 21st, 2012
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Tatragate India: Tatra’s army truck monopoly investigated
October 21st, 2012
NEW DELHI: The CBI, which registered a case against Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh on Saturday for allegedly trying to bribe then Army chief General VK Singh to clear the purchase ofTatra trucks for the Army, is conducting a parallel inquiry into the complaint regarding the monopoly Tatra has enjoyed for two decades in supplying [...]
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Tatras in Ostalgia museum at Usedom
October 11th, 2012
Last summer, I went for a visit to the Baltic coast. While returning from the Peenemünde rocket testing grounds, I came across this Ostalgia museum. Though concentrating on every day life in the former GDR including lots of East German vehicles, it also had a fairly good T 613 and a T 603 on show. [...]
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Video: DAF experience days shows difference between Tatra Phoenix 6×6 and DAF CF 6×4 chassis characteristics
October 11th, 2012
http://www.spillier-decock.be/index.php/nl/24-extras/120-experience-days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjF9tM01ejY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WlxmTMt-WcY&feature=endscreen
and Phoenix 8×8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=MKhnBjpg8Ng
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Tatragate Inda: BEML chief retires
October 11th, 2012
The controversial chairman and managing director of BEML Ltd, V R S Natarajan announced on Monday evening that he has retired as the CMD of public sector defence company.
In a letter released to media by the CMD’s office of BEML, Natarajan said he retired as CMD on September 30, 2012 after attaining superannuation. Natarajan was [...]
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TRN election time in Flanders
September 30th, 2012
Davydutchy published some more photos of the TRN Flanders meeting on the web.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/sets/72157631640899184/
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Australian T 87-603 to be auctioned.
September 28th, 2012
*** This car will be offered at the 2012 Motorclassica Auction to be held in Melbourne on Sunday 28th October 2012 ***
1948 Tatra T87 Aerodynamic Limousine
Chassis number 3480332
Known today as a manufacturer of all wheel drive trucks and lorries, the Czech company Tatra is one of the oldest car manufacturers in the world. Its first [...]
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Tatragate India: BEML allegedly surrendered Tatra truck manufacturing rights partially
September 28th, 2012
The Central Bureau of Investigation has strong reasons to suspect that Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), through a memorandum of understanding with the Ravi Rishi-owned British company Tatra Sipox U.K., during the tenure of the suspended BEML chief V. R. S. Natarajan, allegedly partially surrendered the manufacturing rights of all-terrain Tatra trucks in 2003. The [...]
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Tatragate India: Problem in upkeep of military Tatra trucks
September 28th, 2012
With procurement of Tatra trucks put on hold, the Defence Ministry is facing problems in maintenance of over 7,000 of these vehicles in the armed forces and is likely to seek advice from the Law Ministry in this regard.
The Ministry is likely to seek the opinion of the Law Ministry on how it should go [...]
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TRN meeting in Flanders
September 24th, 2012
The Dutch annual meeting crossed the southern border to Belgium, mainly its coastal area on the North Sea but cities like Mechelen, Antwerp, Gent and Ypres also had a glance of Dutch Tatras on tour, even welcoming them with Volgas, Wartburgs and Trabants. The meting saw participants from the UK. France, Belgium, Germany and Holland
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=52a884b5a1274d8c&id=52A884B5A1274D8C%2119500
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