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Jun
In a major boost to the Make in India initiative, the Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to build around a hundred advanced fighter jets in India, for which it has initiated discussions with international aircraft manufacturers. Top authority sources have instructed India Today that the Atmanirbhar push will, for the first time, see Indians using foreign currency to pay for nearly 70 per cent of the project's cost. “The plan is to build ninety six planes in India for which repayments for 36 would be made in part in Indian and partially in overseas currency. For the last 60 aircraft,…