Bharat Rakshak

Well its a setback for sure, even with a uncertain business scenerio infy was ready to committ a significant amount of cash reserves for this (More then half) and was looking forward to this merger. Since this is a cash deal whosoever pays more takes it. I would be interesting to watch if Infy ups t...

^^ is this final. Since its a public company Infosys can better the Offer and whosoever is chosen needs to meet the shareholders nod... Anyways this is a big setback to Infosys. This was really somthing the top brass in Infosys was looking forward to. Hope this brings them back to reality as far as ...

I have question for the gurus here The excess liquidity was absorbed in the RE market and drove demand and thus prices upwards, leading to housing rush, sub-prime loans, further increase in demand and further increase in prices What bought this cycle down. Why suddenly house values started to go dow...

I saw one video too in which troops on a night patrol cooks Maggi noodles (Atta one). But they were not SF. Regular Infantry guys.

Guess it was part of some series on young officers.

Cunning, chankia hindus are trying to hijack the thread............... Meanwhile its going tough for one of the top 5 Indian IT firms. Satyam defers recruits joining date Signs of 2001!!! whereas Infosys has accquired UK based AXON group by paying hard cash...biggest accquistion by Indian IT service...

I wonder what really fits the defintion of a bank!..When someone says large bank what exactly are they talking about? IB, FI, Real retail bank... How does one arm of a FI like Citibank makes itself immune from changes in fortune in other arm. Like retail banking and IB. Is it possible for a giant li...

oracle wont do it unless they are really hard pressed. 2 reasons: 1. Flexcube as a CBS is selling..they recently sold it to a major bank is AUS. 2. Gives a bad signal to companies who are target of accquistion for Oracle. Oracle has inorganic growth as part of its strategy and they wont like to crea...

I heard about it but started to believe when recently one of my friends got a reference check after being in my company for about 1.5 years. Took me by surprise as he gave my reference and I actually got a call for verification. Dont know about the firing part as he was clean. He was from mainframe ...

Patni Fires 400 Non-performers

The headlines says it all. Whats significant here is that 400 as a number constitute 3% of total workforce for Patni. Patni follows TCS, IBM and Sapient in doing what was considered unthinkable few years back in Indian IT services sector.

Infotech Hiring shrinks by 40% Expected trend as everyone is reducing the bench strength but once the productivity reaches a level hiring though limited has to start afresh to maintain it that level. So a dip first, a short spike follows and then it gets stable.. Attrition is still high which signi...

Dow took a beating of 350+ Points today finishing at a 2 year low. GM shares hit a 53 year low.

May his sould rest in peace.

Well they are re-organizing on Geo basis and want to be in top 10 tech firms. The re-org based on consulting/product dev and services happened sometimes ago if I am not wrong but I dont think there was a focus on Product development. Consulting is treated as another arm to further the services and m...

Wipro restructures top leadership BANGALORE: Following the appointment of Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe as joint CEOs, Wipro has undertaken a significant leadership restructuring and pan-global geographic re-grouping. The company has bunched its geographies into five and identified five chief ...

"Something Ka Vinash " ( Vanquish Something), perhaps? Incidentally it seems to be an unofficial motto, as they do have an official motto, as can be seen here: http://www.nsg.gov.in/DG0907.htm but there again, it is obscured by the fact that the top-level modifiers on the devanagri script...

Called Tank Buster course i think..

thats not a tape. Thats a standard feature of the dress. It used to be cloth based. Interesting to see its now waterproof sheet.

Vivek, i enjoyed reading your scenerios and all the best to you. Remember to keep a clause about a hefty chunk of profit share just in case some holly/bolly wood producer decides to make a movie on it someday....

IT companies go slow on hiring in India A number crunching on their hiring targets reveals that the top six companies — Infosys, TCS, Satyam, Wipro, Cognizant and HCL — actually hired 2,500 employees less compared to 2006-07. Not something new but gives an insight into numbers in last year and ...

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google FN FAL for a similar accesory

Shalav thanks a ton. You have resolved one great doubt of mine. Can understand the utility of it for FN FAL but INSAS is light weight and have never seen soldiers using it in Pics posted here or elsewhere.

^^ isnt that the NSG guy in the pic. Cant figure out the badge on the arm but looks like an NSG badge to me. NSG was rushed to the scene from Delhi after the blast. Also I have always wondered whats that small handle with small wooden barrel looking thing just above the magzine in INSAS (in Pics pos...

Look up some of the tortures given to Sikh leader and commoners by Muslim kings/armies. We dont need to go very far in history/geography to understand it. Also look up for "hanged, drawn and quartered" in google (remember Braveheart, the movie) lets not talk about tortures, we would need a...

Murugan, interesting details. This is called Mugdar in up north. Some more things we can see around are: 1. Rope tied to a pole to climb up and down. 2. Wrestling pit - You have a big wooden bench to smoothen out the soil in the pit which is dig first using a shovel. The bench is pulled using ropes ...

Anything is better than the Sterling, at even moderate range its not good enough. Its purely a CQB weapon. One guy I spoke to described his "experience" with a Sterling, in combat. He got so frustrated with its inability to even punch through moderate earthenwork before the target, that h...

Ranvijay wrote: I'd love to get into the "fighting" core but I'm afraid my eyesight would not let me through.
Thanks.

Heard they are pretty much relaxed on this one now a days. At least for Engineers...

There used to be a process calle University Entrance Scheme for officers in Engineering branch (atleast Navy used I went through SSB Bhopal and got selected) where in they would give you the rank of acting Sub Lt. in 4th year after selection in a 5 yr engineering degree with a stipend of Rs 750 (in...