NEW DELHI, Aug. 8 -- India is taking steps to join a France-led programme for the development of a sixth-generation fighter aircraft, the defence ministry informed a Parliamentary panel that tabled its report in both Houses on Friday. "The Ministry of Defence has initiated efforts in a concerted manner to co-join the 6th Generation Fighter Aircraft Development Programme viz. Future Combat Air System (FCAS) spearheaded by the French Government," the ministry told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence. The Indian Air Force, the world's fourth largest, had earlier zeroed in on two global consortia-France, Germany, and Spain (FCAS) and the UK, Italy and Japan (Global Combat Air Programme) -hoping to join forces with one of them to dev...