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Cannot blame the NSA here. He has done his job well. Stationing the NSG and Garuds immediately after receiving intelligence inputs and before attack began is itself a great improvement from what we have seen earlier. Undoubtedly, many lives were saved because of this decision. Its just that vermin t...

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Would it open so soon? My understanding is that the tunnelling is not complete (even in the Purple line). Looks like even Kochi metro may become operational before Phase 1 of Metro gets completed :P. And I will have to move around covering my head in a dhothi/ mundu if that happens ;). I think tunn...

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Rohit_K wrote:Chennai Metro Continues Services Despite Koyambedu Depot Being Flooded

After seeing this, I'm wondering if Namma metro took a bad decision by opting for third rail...

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Upgraded Arjun Mark-II tanks undergoing trial at Pokhran

A major modification involves equipping the new version of the tank with missile firing capability. The DRDO aims at firing missiles accurately up to a range of 2,000 km.

What?

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Bangalore Metro's MD - Pradeep Singh Kharola and his team are all pathological liars. Time and again, they've lied about when different reaches of the system will open up and have come up with flimsy excuses for not doing so. Now even the Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety has called him out. BMR...

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Congrats ISRO!

Bade wrote:solar panels deployed...

Waiting for the first image from Astrosat now...

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Neela wrote: Passenger safety Sir.

No 'Sir' please.
You have a point here. This requirement too must be met, if not already done, by the time ISRO attempts manned space missions.
For now, I am happy that the first indigenous processor has been put to use.

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Automotive - Completely completely different ball game sir. Firstly device failure is not an option. Several redundancies builtin. And environment testing takes years to complete. Huge investments needed and without firm orders its a very risky proposition. Aren't all these requirements met if Vikr...

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I think the main objective of realizing this processor was to beat tech denial regime. As reported below, way back in 2013. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Experts-brainstorm-on-anti-submarine-systems/articleshow/23993653.cms Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) director (R&D) John ...

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Best news I have heard in recent times. Thx JTull Ji. I think 180 nm node must be sufficient to fulfill ISRO's and DRDO's processor requirements. One more tech denial attempt made irrelevant, after cryo-tech.

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I think we should let some of our ethnic states seek UN membership. None of them are going to ally with Pakistan or China, but it will allow them to gain more visibility and serve as a pressure relief valve. For example, Thackerays, Lalu and Jayalalitha can spread Marathi, Bhojpuri and Tamil in New...

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^ Nice to know that China is switching to eco-friendly RP1/LOX propellant.

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Singha, anything but ORR is because no more real estate exploitation can be done with already astronomical sq ft rate. Hence metro to every jhumri tilaiya outskirts of BLR to feed the RE bubble. phase1 itself should have been jayanagar-BTM-silk board-electronic city and jayanagar-BTM-silk board-kor...

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ne_Map.png A whole segment along ORR is missing from the plans. Yes, that is included in phase 3. Pls, follow the link below. http://bmrc.co.in/pdf/news/Phase2A3.pdf Ideally, they should have connected the airport in phase 2 itself, but they were short of...

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phase1 itself should have been jayanagar-BTM-silk board-electronic city and jayanagar-BTM-silk board-koramangala-HSR-bellandur-marathalli-kundanahalli-ITPL-hope farm-old madras road. these would have been highly commercially viable routes. going underground under old airport road from koramangala-d...

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Singha wrote: congrats to all delhiite members here. its great to be on the winning team!

In a fixed match though

. Wish GOI extended funds and largesse to other cities as well.

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Meanwhile things are getting desperate on the Delhi metro.... Of course the media has no clue of why this should be so, :roll: and does not know what questions to ask.... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 891684.cms Even the highest capacity mumbai suburban rail is super dense packed duri...

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Certainly the cost should be considered. In Delhi though we have both BG & SG and the costs were not dramatically different so it has not borne out that way. If I were polite I'd say the experts are mistaken... May be you are right. But I've been following Bangalore metro construction for some ...

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See there is no need ape west and build unsustainable metro lines. What we have, we overlook that and go behind something that not possible or too costly. 1) Alternative to metro is Suburban railway criss-crossing through the city. How would you build one in densely populated cities like Bangalore?...

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I completely agree.....with the amount of population and congestion, higher capacity is the need of the hour. And this is a prime reason monorail will not be a success here. Land acquisition and construction costs are significantly higher for broad gauge vs standard gauge. It would be much harder f...

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chaanakya wrote:I hope other states jump in the fray and offer land , concessions etc.

Why? Has Karnataka shown any arrogance and shooed HAL away? The report itself says that Karnataka is keen to retain the project. Development need not be dog eat dog.

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Delhi Metro is partly to blame for the woes of Bangalore Metro. DMRC was fully pre-occupied with the CWG games and did an improper DPR for Bangalore Metro. For example they recommended only 2 TBM's, and of the wrong type. There is a pointed exchange on record between Srisailam, former MD before Kha...

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I was told it is a water tank. Water from this tank is used to cool the pad during launch. IIRC, the tank empties in a few tens of seconds.

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DMRC like other metro orgs subcontract soil testing/geotechnical investigations. That component is not done in-house. Godavari TBM broke down last year around July after encountering hard rock, so looks like IISc back in 2009 also got their analysis wrong? May be they got it wrong or may be TBM bre...

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After reading some posts (and linked information from various sources) in skyscrapercity forum, my respect towards E. Sreedharan and DMRC (Delhi metro corp) in general, has diminished. DMRC was asked to prepare DPR for Bangalore metro. It turns out that they bungled up the DPR, causing huge time del...

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http://www.isro.gov.in/sites/default/files/videos/MCC_IMG_002.mp4.mp4 http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/3d-visualization-of-mars-terrain-using-mars-color-camera-images Nice visualization of a canyon 4000 Km long, 200 Km wide and 7 km deep. Imagine the size of the river that creat...

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Happy Independence day. Jai Hind!

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Rest in peace sir. May you be born in India again!

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Interceptor missile test off Odisha coast fails (The Hindu) The trial of an upgraded interceptor missile conducted by DRDO scientists has failed on Monday. According to DRDO sources, the missile called Advanced Air Defence (AAD), plummeted into the Bay of Bengal a few seconds after the liftoff from...

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Gyan wrote:Offer of 74% equity and assured orders is per se suspicious and questionable

But will it not bring FDI and create more jobs?

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Reg. termination of Dr. Chander's contract, Why aren't opposition of our parliment creating ruckus? Or have we missed it?

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Please post summary of this article in English.

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Looks like the reporter visited Mahendragiri facilities and is not much into 'space'. That's the problem. The reporter could have had this article reviewed by his ISRO contacts from Mahendragiri before publishing. In fact, this procedure must be made compulsary for any techical article published in...

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Fourth navigation satellite launch in March The fourth navigation satellite of the country is getting ready for launch in March, and it will be another step forward for India in evolving its own navigation satellite system and not depend on the Geographical Positioning System (GPS) service of the U...

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Thanks KrishG.
Another question. I haven't seen a window in the re-entry module so far. If it doesn't have one, how would the crew align the module for retro rocket firing?

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Payload fairing looks huge, but the capsule itself is so small. Were these pictures taken inside vehicle assembly building?

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May be the total span of image is 7.3 km?

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Bheeshma wrote:Why still no pics??? Did they find a alien or something they don't want to share.

They have got back ten images. But our PM gets to see them first.

Orbiter sends back first pictures
Ah.. Partha posted it first!

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Congrats ISRO! You have made us proud.
Waiting for the first pic now.

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PM is urging youth to use Bhuvan space portal!

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