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Possibly no law at all.The U.S. doesn’t have a lot of laws regarding the privacy of individuals, aside from what that government is allowed to do with that information. HIPAA is a major exception from this rule, in that healthcare workers are regulated on how they treat medical information. But there isn’t any sort of similar law regarding private individuals/entities and your financial information.After all, this is also a free speech issue. It is very exceptional to limit what information people can share or publish.26 U.S. Code § 6103 - Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information covers what the government can do with your returns and the process by which they can/must disclose the returns. It says nothing about what a party can do if they are not listed on the parties this law regulates.So it does not apply to either the leak (if it was not a governmental officer or agent) nor to the publication of the return.Further, New York law only imposes secrecy on the following list of people:All officers, employees, and agents of the Department of Taxation and Finance;Any person engaged or retained by this department on an independent contract basis;Any depository, its officers and employees, to which a return may be delivered;Any person who is permitted to inspect any report or return;Settlement and other third party entities defined in section 1703(1)(a) of the Tax Law; Contractors and workmen hired by the department to work on its equipment, buildings, or premises, or to process returns or other papers; andVisitors to the department’s buildings or premises.So basically, if you encountered the tax return outside of NY’s processes of dealing with the tax returns, this law does not cover you.So really, anyone in the campaign, a disgruntled worker, a former accountant, a former wife, or anyone that wants to sabotage Trump who is not a government employee can leak these documents.

As other real estate agents have posted, it comes down to whether you had a formal buyer’s agent agreement with that agent. If you did, it isn’t a matter of etiquette. You have a contract. Unless there is a clause added to the contract that exempted certain properties, you agreed that any house purchased during the term of that contract was covered by the contract, regardless of whether that agent actually found the property for you.If you didn’t have a buyer’s agency agreement with that agent, then sure… go ahead and tell them. It will help them understand the importance of getting one signed with future buyers.If you have a buyer’s agency agreement in place, no matter how nicely you inform the agent of your private sale, you are informing them of a bsignNow of contract. You owe them commission. So, it’s probably best to avoid telling them at all.If you had informed your agent up front, that you are potentially negotiating a private sale, but the seller isn’t willing to pay any commission, your position could be quite different. Many agencies might simply let you out of the agency agreement. But if you don’t tell them until after closing… well… good luck.Perhaps as importantly, you are missing out on important services that they could have provided you at no cost to you, and that you may regret not receiving.If you saw a private sale opportunity (say on zillow), and you were interested in that property, you should have contacted your agent and had them arrange it for you. This process would vary by state, but in general, they would contact the seller, and work out a Right to Show agreement with them. That agreement would allow the agent to represent you, as per your buyer’s agent agreement. It would allow the seller to pay a buyer’s agent side commission only. Most “For Sale By Owner” sellers are happy to do this, because they are still paying only half of the usual commission.The result of this would be that you - as the buyer, retain all of the benefits of agent representation, and the seller still pays for it. The seller meanwhile, has essentially forgone their own right to representation as they didn’t list the house with an agent. So they ostensibly saved some money, but they have also put themselves in the position of an amateur dealing with someone represented by a professional. That may end up costing them in the end, but of course, that’s not your problem.There is a common misconception that the work of a real estate agent stops when the contract is signed. This is sooooo not true. Finding you the right property is a small part of what the buyer’s agent does. Especially for the buyer’s agent, the work truly begins when the contract is signed. If you have a professional agent, they will be doing all kinds of legwork on your behalf to ensure that the deal closes smoothly and your rights are protected. Here are just some of the things they should do on your behalf:Making sure you use state approved real estate contracts. These help protect your rights as a buyer.Helping you understand 100% of the contract to purchase. There are a lot of gotchas here. Your agent has been (or should have been) trained to make sure you understand every part of that.Helping you to understand the process of buying the house, the importance of getting a home inspected, what to expect in the loan process, etc.Making sure you stay on top of deadlines for inspections, getting homeowner’s insurance in place, applying for loans, filing addendums, etc. This helps to ensure you don’t forfeit rights or lose the contract altogether.Helping you to review the inspection report, and request necessary repairs.Ensuring that closing date modifications are requested, if something causes the date to change. This happens often with delays in getting loan appraisals done, especially when a government guaranteed loan is involved (FHA, RD, VA, etc.).Helping you avoid pitfalls with local ordinances that may result in extra costs to you after closing. There are sometimes upgrades that an existing owner is grandfathered from that a new owner may have to perform. Your real estate agent should be helping you navigate through those, if necessary.By going around your agent, you lost out on all that. You had to go it alone in the transaction. Maybe you did it all right. Then again, you may realize a year or so down the road that you have problems a real estate agent could have helped you avoid. On top of all that, you may end up having to pay for it.

I negotiate with a major software vendor on a full-time basis. I’m not going to try to invent an “unusual” strategy, because way too few of my customers (who are negotiating deals with the vendor I specialize in) have a grasp of what should be the “usual” strategies.I have to add that our strategy is not based on across-the-table relationships. My client is the customer, and my client hires me to define the best deal for them, not the vendor. I’m not looking for a win-win. I’m looking for a win. By my customer. If it’s a win for the vendor, I’m not offended, but that’s never my goal. If the vendor rep misses the deal and gets fired, that’s not my problem—I measure the result by my customer team’s success. Often the savings we realize save jobs at the customer’s site, so on the jobs front, we are doing just fine.I have, by the way, saved customers about $620 million over the last six years. I work every year with about a half-dozen Fortune 500/Global 2000 customers, plus a couple dozen smaller ones.Define your requirements. We spend 2 or 3 days at a customer’s site talking to relevant decision makers—what are their goals—and to technical implementers—what are they using today, when will they need more, etc. If you define your requirements and estimate what they should cost, you have set a “ceiling” on what you need to pay. This is known in classic negotiation strategy as “best alternative to a negotiated agreement” or BATNA. Because you have defined your needs carefully—and the vendor often has no idea what your real needs are—the vendor’s pitch is now invalid. The vendor team stuffs their proposal with their quota for the customer, their must-sell products, and the stuff they get bonuses for. You look at their offer, and strike out anything that doesn’t meet your requirements. Now you may be at 25% of what they were expecting to sell you.Always have a plan. In the thousands of meetings I have observed and participated in, one thing always sticks out: If only one person in the room has a plan, that’s the plan. By that I mean that you will spend the whole meeting discussing why or why not the vendor’s plan is a good plan, and no time considering alternative plans or approaches. The vendor never comes to a meeting without a presentation focused on what they want to sell. In response, the client must lay down on the table what they want to buy and do everything in their power, including ending the meeting early, to make that the plan. We’ve heard of smart negotiators who, after the vendor distributes handouts to members of the negotiating team and some managers, go around the room, gather up all the documents, and dump them in the recycle bin. Now, let’s start talking about our proposal.You control the schedule. My vendor always engages the customer months ahead of time with a calendar. Here’s when we’ll do the first introductions and overview (their PowerPoint, of course). They they’ll bring in the people who sell product X. Next, the people who sell service Y. They we will finalize the program and estimate costs. They we will get financial approval. Then the agreement will be complete and signed. Throw that out. Only you will decide when meetings are held. Only you will decide who attends meetings. Only you will decide what the agenda is. They’re free to tell you what they would like to talk about, but whether it makes the agenda or not is up to you. Never, ever let the vendor dictate who may or may not be in the room. One time the vendor rep told my customer that one of the customer’s staff would not be invited to future meetings. (He was constantly challenging the vendor with his own knowledge, and if there’s anything the vendor fears, it’s knowledgeable customers). I told the customer that they should make this employee a required attendee for all future meetings—now that the vendor had identified someone they feared, we’re going to put that fear in the room every time.Prepare the agreement that you will sign, independently of anything the vendor is offering. This is important for procurement/purchasing because the vendor will try to go over the negotiator’s head and get to senior management if they can’t crack the negotiator. If you, the negotiator, aren’t bending, the vendor will complain to upper management that the deadline is approaching and they still don’t have a deal. Your manager calls down, says “what’s going on, we need this done!” You say “I have the contract we will sign sitting on my desk. They had it two weeks ago. Anytime they want to sign this contract I will personally courier it to them for signature. It has gone through legal, it has the approval of our team. They may not want to sign it, but it is simply not true that we don’t have a contract ready for signature. It’s the vendor who is stalling, not us.”Manage upward. Make sure that senior people know what you are doing. They don’t want details, but keep them informed about your cost estimates (“we estimate that we should be able to get everything we need for $9.2 million”) and any vendor demands that are blocking signature. You want management to push any issues back to the negotiating team. Management should tell the vendor “you have raised some interesting issues. I trust my negotiating team to take all this into account, so bring that up with them and if they see it your way I’ll approve it.”Make all problems the vendor’s problem. One of my customers at one point said “Our back is against the wall. We need four weeks for contract approval, so we only have two weeks left to finalize the contract.” I told him “your back is never against the wall. We’re going to tell the vendor that we need to see their best and final offer one week from today. If they can’t make that, we’ll execute our contract plan” (which requires only putting in an order with a reseller). That worked perfectly. The vendor, of course, begged for a few more days, but in the end, the customer wrote the deal and met their deadline. So deadlines, budgets, special Ts and Cs , etc. that you need can all be turned into something the vendor needs to do or supply.Negotiate quantity or functionality rather than price. Way too many people wait for a vendor proposal and then try to talk it down 10% or 15%. They may end up with really good pricing for something they don’t need. That’s not a 15% discount. That’s 85% more than they needed to spend. We never negotiate discounts directly. By determining actual requirements we typically come in at 25% to 40% of what the vendor is proposing—and we base that on list prices. I call it “writing your own discount.” In these situations, we have “discounted” the customer’s costs by 60% to 75%. Furthermore, we often still end up with great price discounts. How? The vendor account team really, really needs to squeeze some quota or some must-sells into the deal. So they discount the price of everything else to squeeze their stuff under the price ceiling. We’ve gotten our customers 50% price discounts that way, even though they are buying far less . Less product, bigger discount? That’s a real savings accelerator.Find the mole. The vendor may have some staff in your building to help with support, training, etc. These people are often spies and cultivate friendships with your staff. They sit in the company cafeteria and shoot the bull, but they are also gathering information about new initiatives, quantities, critical requirements, etc. They also try to cultivate staff who might reveal information about the customer’s negotiating team or strategy. We provide customers with a template to send to all employees who are in that position. Never disclose data. Never get excited about anything they show you. At best, “we’ll review that.” If vendor staff ever try to pry out information, inform the negotiating team. In some cases we recall or invalidate badges that let vendor staff enter and roam the building without an escort. Until this deal is over, they’ll be escorted everywhere. Often some of your staff may be compromised. They’ve drunk the Kool-Aid and they really really want the latest Cadillac version of the vendor’s product. They can disrupt negotiations by bringing up constant objections. On one hand, we want the customer’s staff to be able to back our negotiating position, so we listen to such objections and if they’re real we will accommodate them. But we will challenge the employee for a business justification if they say something like “we can’t live without the next version of the product.” Really? It’s not out yet. What’s in it that you need? In many cases they’re feeding you scuttlebutt, not facts.Never forget that you have the money. The vendor wants it. If they don’t put the right deal on the table, they walk away with nothing. You still have your money. Way too many customers feel cowed by the brand, size, and money of a major software vendor. In reality, the contest is only between you and the vendor rep. The rep desperately needs your money to keep his or her job. When the vendor starts dictating to the customer, the wrong dynamic is set up. Push back, strong. They may act like you owe them, but you don’t. They owe you an appropriately sized contract to meet your requirements. “Here is the budget. Here are our requirements. Meet them and you get the money.”NB. Edited 6/16 to change “way too many” in the first paragraph to “way too few”PD

A single-word answer would be Power but I’ll try to explain the controversy in as simple manner as possible. But it will be a long answer with the recent Lok Sabha debate (02/01/19) of Shri Rahul Gandhi.Rafale Deal Controversy is related with the purchase of 36 multirole fighter aircraft for the price of Rs 58,000 crore by Ministry of Defence from Dassault Aviation.TimelineJan 31, 2012: Indian Defence Ministry announced Dassault Rafale had won the MMRCA competition to supply Indian Air Force (IAF) with 126 aircraft along with an option for 63 additional aircraft. Rafale was chosen as the lo...

YES, of course!Let me help you see it because…… and your answer lies in the above quote.Let’s begin -The World today is taking India more seriously and feeling India's presence the way it should have felt long ago!But, why and how?!Just ONE WORD answer to it…MODI.Let me mention a few signNow Global events - this will also serve as a review of what has happened, rather what has changed, in last 4.5 years.Diplomatic Wins :The recent ones -No US sanctions imposed on India despite the S-400 deal with Russia and continued import of Crude Oil from Iran.Despite repeated attempts by China to create Political turmoil in Maldives and Sri Lanka, both the countries reiterated their 'India First' stand.Global Recognition :India launched the SAARC Communication Satellite following which, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s South Asia Office will now be based in New Delhi, aiming to serve the 24% of the World Population, of course that includes Pakistan ;) - surely recognizing India’s IT Services’ hold on World ICT.International Yoga DayThe hashtag #SelfieWithDaughter started trending worldwide after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to post their photos during his radio address Mann ki Baat, and guess what #SelfieWithDaughter became No. 1 Twitter trend in India and also listed in worldwide trends.Infrastructural Feats :The projects are getting completed on time - (this has improved India’s image and helped getting Construction Projects abroad thereby improving economic ties.)World's Tallest Statue,World's Highest Railway Bridge,India' s Longest Rail-Road Bridge,India's Longest Tunnel etc.Pakyong Airport - an Engineering marvel Greenfield Airport, India’s 100th, Sikkim’s 1st airport (even before a railway line built in here!), built at a height of 4,500 feet, will be a boost to the defence forces.Recognizing the Valour :Now India has a Police War Memorial.and the Latest One…under Make in India!Foreign Visits :Many blame him for this, but the impacts are far signNowing…Narendra Modi has made us proud again, by upholding our roots and deciding to speak in Hindi at all world stages. It's a soft and subtle message to the world about our renewed vision for self sustenance. Such small decisions are widely observed and carefully studied by International Relations' observers, and no wonder Modi is sending out a strong message!HE wooed people across the world with his speeches made at their respective Parliaments, and became the 1st Indian PM to do so.(at American Congress)(at Australian Parliament)(at British Parliament)When Modi got a full house reception of 18,000 people chanting his name in Madison Square Garden, New York.and in UK…Even CHINA couldn’t resist welcoming our PM!Below are some of the Proud moments in Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister winning accolades all over the world. Many say that he is against Muslims but even Islamic Countries conferring him with their Highest Civilian Honor, for sure, is a proud moment!Narendra Modi conferred Saudi Arabia’s Highest Civilian Honor “Abdulaziz Al Saud”in 2016.Narendra Modi conferred Afghanistan’s Highest Civilian Honor “Amir Amanullah Khan Award” in 2016.Narendra Modi conferred Palestine’s Highest Civilian Honor for Foreign Dignitaries “Grand Collar of the state of Palestine”.Some perfect ‘then and now’ moments…and in India…So, HE is…HE always made us proud back here in India while being outside! but criticized because, hardly any other Indian PM achieved such milestones!Still, what PM Modi brought back was indigestible to some people!HE once said,but he continued working…even harder!(Translation - A Big hit to ‘Sickulars’…despite multiple foreign visits, PM Modi made a record of working maximum number of hours at Prime Minister’s Office, PMO)(older pics)If this doesn’t make Indians proud, then what will???come on at least not these people…do they?!!!(Translation - People’s Servant vs Clan Prince!)(Translation - Those who turned into Muslims before Modi becoming PM, now embracing Hinduism…isn’t it a signNow change!)(Translation - No one felt if there is a PM in the country…but Modi made India famous again all around the world in just first 19 months of coming into power! and that’s my friend is the real reason for Intolerance!!!)(Translate - On Election defeat ‘they’ say - Fault of EVM! On legal defeat ‘they’ say - Fault of Judges! On Surgical Strike ‘they’ say - Army is lying!)HE is truly for everyone…(Translate - Rahul Gandhi says, “Modi ji travelled all around the world, but I’ve never seen a single pic of him either with a farmer, a laborer or an unemployed YOUTH!)…and remembers everything!The People’s PM :Always at the Center of Attraction! :)(There is a lot more still left to be added, but I think this will suffice.)To conclude, I would say -“ To feel proud by heart, First Decide WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL PROUD! about something or someone…”Jai Hind!EDIT 1 - Auctioning of all the Gifts received so far!This he did today only (28/01/2019)!

The simplest place to start is that Voter ID laws have an impact on the outcome of an election. People who are engaged in society almost all have a legal form of ID, and they skew Republican compared to people who are living off the grid for any of several reasons, who generally skew Democratic. Though there have been exceptions, with 2008 being the best and most recent example, Republicans tend to be more likely to vote than Democrats. Even in states where there is no voter id law, this is an undisputed fact on the ground. It's an old not-joke that Republicans love to see bad weather on Election Day, because it makes a Republican win slightly more likely. Polls of all registered voters usually show Democrats two or even more percentage points ahead of where they appear if the poll is of likely voters.Republicans like democracy. The question is whether it is defined as rule by a majority of all citizens, or by a majority of those who cast a vote. Obviously what a Republican would like to see is that every eligible voter in the country would register, educate themselves, and come out and cast a Republican vote. Even if they could get away with it, which they plainly could not, Republicans do not want to win elections by manipulating the outcome. They have a partisan motive to suppress turnout, and when they've been found guilty of doing that, they often end up literally behind bars. Republicans obviously do not have a partisan motive to increase general turnout.It would seem that both parties could agree on any system that allows every voter an equal opportunity to cast a legal vote. But there is no such system. The Republican will say that we have a system that is easy enough, and makes it possible for anybody who wants to do so to cast a vote. The Democrat will say that low turnout is proof that it wasn't easy enough. When it comes to balancing expense versus achieving universal voting, Republicans have a political motive to remove obvious obstacles and then let the people who want to vote cast their votes. It is equally partisan to suggest an extreme on the other end; we could conduct elections much more like the way we do a census; we could hire millions of people to go to their houses and collect their opinion, whether they had any interest in providing it or not. It would come closer to the ideal of democracy.We spend money running elections. We could install more voting machines in more voting locations, and boost turnout slightly. The cost would be high. At some point surely even someone who is dedicated to the notion that every citizen should vote will perceive a crossover point at which collecting more votes is not worth the cost. But it seems inevitable that a small government party will come into conflict on this issue when debating with a party that will directly benefit from more spending.With no voter id law whatsoever, it's harder to vote if you're poor. It is also harder to eat well and harder to get a good education and harder to get to work. All are rights that we want to work very hard to guarantee to every American. But we can't make it equally easy for poor people to do much of anything - your life isn't equal to prosperous citizens when you don't have any money. As of today, almost all Americans can request an absentee ballot by telephone, fill it out, mail it in, and have their vote counted. I am unaware of laws that require forms of ID that are expensive to obtain. I would like to learn more. It is my understanding that voter id laws include provisions to make the process of obtaining an ID no more difficult than voting itself.And a word about racism follows.A hundred years ago in many areas of this country you could legally discriminate on the basis of color. (Obviously you could do that much more recently, as well: I myself went to a legally all-white school as a first grader. I am that old.) Later, you could charge a poll tax. As a shameful but interesting bit of ephemera from the elections of years past, I have a poll tax receipt signed by my grandfather in 1932. The poll tax was $1.00, and that was a sufficiently high fee to prevent most African Americans from voting. The question now is whether the cost of an ID card is high enough that it prevents many minorities from casting a vote. Because of a legacy of centuries of racial discrimination, anything that impacts the poor impacts a higher percentage of minorities than whites. However, in any given income bracket, whites make up the majority. A policy that adversely affects the poor affects more white people than black people. This math isn't difficult, but it means that disproportionate impacts on African Americans are also primarily visited upon whites. If I had a political strategy that called for reducing black votes and getting white votes, a poll tax (or any poverty-driven mechanism) would be illogical in the extreme. Those who try to make a case that Republicans are in favor of laws that do not maximize the turnout of poor voters have an argument, because more government money could pay for more mechanisms to gather votes. Those who try to make an argument that Republicans are in favor of laws that are aimed at hurting minorities are at best mistaken, completely and utterly. If they have signNowed this conclusion without thinking through the math, they are expressing a valid concern that has to be discussed and addressed. If they are saying that the voter id laws are racially motivated even though they understand the math, and are merely asserting this accusation because it is damaging to the Republican Party, they are engaging in a common form of partisan politicking. In this case, it strikes me as being far out of bounds, both because it ascribes completely unacceptable moral qualities to Republicans with no evidence, and because it serves to shed heat on the discussion instead of light. It is demagoguery, and I condemn it in the strongest terms I know how to express politely.

As the controversy surrounding Rafale deal escalates, here is an explainer and a timeline relating to India's purchase of 36 combat jets from France for an estimated Rs 58,000 crore:What was the UPA deal?India began the process to buy a fleet of 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMCRA) in 2007 after the defence ministry, headed then by Congress leader A K Antony, cleared the proposal from the Indian Air Force. The contenders for the mega-deal were Lockheed Martin's F-16s, Eurofighter Typhoon, Russian MIG-35, Sweden's Gripen, Boeing's F/A-18s and Dassault Aviation's Rafale.After a long-drawn process, bids were opened in December 2012 and Dassault Aviation emerged as L-1 (lowest bidder). In the original proposal, 18 planes were to be manufactured in France and 108 in India in collaboration with the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.There were lengthy negotiations between the then UPA government and Dassault on prices and transfer of technology. The final negotiations continued till early 2014 but the deal could not go through.Details of the negotiated price per Rafale were not officially announced, but it was suggested by the then UPA government that the size of the deal would be $10.2 billion. The Congress claimed per aircraft rate including avionics and weapons was zeroed in at Rs 526 crore.What was the deal finalised by Modi government?During his visit to France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 10, 2015, announced India will purchase 36 Rafale jets in a government-to-government agreement. After the announcement, questions were raised by the Opposition on how the PM finalised the deal without the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Security.A joint statement issued on April 10, 2015, after talks between Modi and then French President François Hollande, said they agreed to conclude an Inter-Governmental Agreement for supply of 36 Rafale jets on terms that would be better than conveyed by Dassault Aviation as part of a separate process underway.The statement said the "aircraft and associated systems and weapons would be delivered on the same configuration as had been tested and approved by Indian Air Force, in clear reference to negotiations and testing process for the Rafale jets under the UPA government.The Final deal?India and France signed an Euro 7.87-billion (Rs 59,000 crore approximately) deal on September 23, 2016 for 36 Rafale jets. The delivery of the aircraft will start from September 2019.The deal was finalised on the basis of the procurement procedure followed under the UPA government.The allegations?The Congress has been accusing massive irregularities in the deal, alleging that the government was procuring each aircraft at a cost of over Rs 1,670 crore as against Rs 526 crore finalised by the UPA government. The party has also demanded answers from the government on why state-run aerospace major HAL was not involved in the deal.The Congress has also sought to know price details of the aircraft and how the rate per aircraft has gone up from Rs 526 crore to Rs 1,670 crore. The government has refused to share the details, citing a secrecy clause of a 2008 pact between India and France.Congress' A K Antony, who was defence minister in 2008 when India and France inked an inter-governmental agreement on defence procurement, said the government's claim that the secrecy clause was forcing it to not reveal price details of the deal was "totally wrong".The party claimed that Qatar had purchased 12 Rafale fighter jets in November 2017 for $108.33 million per aircraft (Rs 694.80 crore).The Congress has also alleged the government was benefitting the Reliance Defence Ltd (RDL) through the deal as the company has set up a joint venture with Dassault Aviation to execute the offset obligation for the Rs 59,000 crore deal.The has party alleged Reliance Defence was formed just 12 days before the announcement of the Rafale deal by the prime minister on April 10, 2015. The RDL has rejected all the charges.Under India's offset policy, foreign defence entities are mandated to spend at least 30 per cent of the total contract value in India through procurement of components or setting up of research and development facilities.On October 3, 2016, RDL and Dassault Aviation announced a joint venture (JV) in the aerospace sector and a year later, foundation stone of a manufacturing facility was laid in Mihan, Nagpur.The government's response?Around two years back, Minister of State for Defence, while replying to a question in Parliament, had said the cost of each Rafale aircraft is approximately Rs 670 crore but did not give details of prices of associated equipment, weapons and services.Later, the government refused to talk about the prices. It has been maintaining that the cost of 36 Rafale jets cannot be "directly compared" with the original proposal to buy 126 combat aircraft as "deliverables" were signNowly different.References:[1] Vinay Patil's answer to Why is the cost so high of the Rafale fighter jets that India is procuring from France? What all does the price include?[2] Decoding Rafale deal: From allegations to counter-allegations - Times of India ►[3 The minutiae of the Rafale deal]