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OFB employees call off strike after Centre agrees to consider their demand
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 24 (ANI): The civilian employees of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) have called off their strike after a meeting with Secretary, Department of Defence Production (DDP), where the unions were assured that a high-level committee would be recommended to be set up for conside
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OFB products are high cost, poor quality:: Defence Ministry
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 21 (ANI): Favouring transformation of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) into a public sector corporate entity, Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its products are of high cost, have poor quality issues and there is lack of or minimal innovation in the factories.
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Talks between OFB and Defence Ministry going on: Defence Production Secret
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Defence Production Secretary Ajay Kumar on Saturday said the senior officials of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are holding talks with the employee unions of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) over the transformation of the entity into public sector units.
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No proposal to privatise Ordnance Factory Board, clarifies Defence Ministr
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 16 (ANI): Ministry of Defence on Friday clarified that there is no proposal to privatise the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB).
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Pak Army mine found, Amarnath Yatra was on target, says Army
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Aug 2 (ANI): The Indian Army on Friday said that Pakistan terrorists are plotting to carry out an attack on the ongoing Amarnath Yatra and that the security forces even recovered a Pakistan Ordnance factory anti-personnel mine from a terror cache.
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Mamata writes to PM Modi, urges to reverse corporatisation of ordnance fac
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 23 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to stall and reverse the process of corporatisation of ordnance factories in Kolkata.
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Six nodes identified for Defence Corridor in UP,Govt in LS
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Six nodes have been identified for the Defence Corridor in Uttar Pradesh, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik informed Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
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One killed , 4 injured in Kanpur ordnance factory blast
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr 9 (ANI) One worker was killed and four others sustained grievous injuries in an explosion in a boiler at an ordnance factory here on Tuesday.
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India's first indigenously built Dhanush howitzer inducted in Army
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Apr 8 (ANI): In a major boost to India's firepower, country's first indigenously designed and developed Dhanush artillery gun was inducted in the Indian Army during a ceremony held at Ordnance Factory here on Monday.
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'Don't you feel ashamed': Rahul accuses PM Modi of lying about ordnance fa
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar 4 (ANI): A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a factory to manufacture advanced AK-203 rifles in Amethi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi claimed that he had inaugurated the ordnance factory in 2010 and accused the Prime
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Live mortar found in U'khand's Champwat district
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Champawat (Uttarakhand) [India], Mar 1 (ANI): A live mortar was found in Banbasa located near Nepal border on Friday.
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Defence Ministry gives nod for production of 114 'Dhanush' guns
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 19 (ANI): The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has received the bulk production clearance (BPC) from the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Army for production of 114 Dhanush indigenous artillery guns.
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