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The Hindu has a nice picture of the vessel. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/icgs-rajveer-to-be-commissioned-today/article5009217.ece http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01547/10VZPAGE2-ICGS_RAJ_1547097f.jpg The patrol vessel manned by five officers and 30 men under the comma...

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Apologies if posted elsewhere. Couldn't see it in other threads. Govt clears Pipavav’s joint venture with Mazagon Dock Ship maker Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd on Friday said the government had cleared its proposed joint venture with state-run Mazagon Dock Ltd to build warships fo...

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Updated: July 07, 2013, Uttarakhand: Hundreds of villages still cut-off, government to ask for all-weather choppers With incessant rains over the last two days hampering relief operations in Uttarakhand, the state government today geared up to requisition choppers which can be flown even in bad wea...

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From Bloomberg: Hyundai Heavy to Raise Ship Prices as China Yards Falter A third of China’s yards may shut down in about five years as they struggle to win orders, an industry group said last week. About 483 shipyards in China won $10.5 billion worth of orders in the first six months of this year, w...

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Meanwhile I am sure most of you must have heard that Russia's Proton M rocket carrying 3 GLONASS satellites erupts into a ball of fire and crashes seconds into its launch in Kazakhstan.

Being the God fearing dhoti shivering Hindu that I am, can't help but notice the changing fortunes.

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This lady seems to exclusively report on and only on Narendra Modi, BJP, RSS with themes of Hindutva, right wing conspiracies and well, justice in Gujarat.

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204 Brow-antlered deer found in Manipur The number of the endangered brow-antlered deer stands at 204 in its lone habitat in Manipur's Keibul Lamjao National Park in Bishenpur district as per the latest census. Locally known as 'Sangai', the animal is found only at the Keibul Lamjao National Park. ...

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Its painful to hear Vijay Bahuguna rant against environmentalism and sustainable development. He wants the rest of the country to compensate UK for protecting its natural resources. He does not believe that many of the lives lost lived in the illegal hotels and guest houses constructed on the banks ...

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Third metro rail gets the green signal The union cabinet on Thursday approved the third metro rail line or the first underground metro rail of Mumbai between Colaba — Bandra — SEEPZ. “The 32.5 km-long third metro line got the union cabinet’s approval today (Thursday),” confirmed UPS Madan, metropol...

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Mumbai Monorail rolls into home stretch The monorail trials between Chembur and Wadala have entered the final stage and by mid-July all the trials will have been completed. According to sources, all the standalone trials are all but over. All that remains to be completed is the system integration t...

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Just wanted to post it here to show how the lure of tourism money is so great for builders and authorities to have allowed a ruthless spate of construction in the higher reaches of the state. Uttarakhand: Hundreds of buildings washed away were illegal More than 300 multi-storey buildings, hotels, sh...

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India losing 135 hectares forest daily: RTI According to recent data acquired through RTI from the ministry of environment and forests by a group of environmentalists, the extent of forest land being diverted across the country on an average stands at 135 hectares (around 333 acres) per day. Such d...

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Mumbai's mangroves too have been victims to the greed for land. 50 acres of mangroves destroyed in Mumbai Around 50 acres of mangroves were allegedly destroyed in Lokhandwala by planting "invasive species" and creating a debris path, which residents claimed was a new modus operandi to kill...

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Real estate regulator: Harsh rules & soft banks will keep realty unclean After politicians, builders are the most despised lot. The housing market is about spiralling rates that have priced out most buyers, ambitious developers who are answerable to no one, emergence of property as an asset cla...

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Centre okays real estate regulator The Centre on Tuesday approved legislation for setting up a regulator for the real estate sector. The move is purported to protect the interests of home buyers and provides for a jail term of up to three years for private developers for cheating customers with fal...

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Rajasthan launches campaign to save Great Indian Bustard Rajasthan became the first state in the country to launch a campaign to save the Great Indian Bustard, which is on the brink of extinction. Once in contention for being nominated as the national bird of India, the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) i...

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You mean "French fried" ?! Now we need more of this! This is a very potent flotilla visiting Vietnam. http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20130604-indian-naval-ships-docks-in-da-nang.aspx Indian naval ships dock in Vietnam port Last Updated: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 03:00:00 Two Vietna...

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You know how every endangered species is in demand in China as an aphrodisiac? Have the Chinese considered eating themselves considering they have such a high libido?

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what is all this chinese food in this thread :) "An army marches on its stomach"--Napoleon 5 Gurkha served us delish Maggi noodles at 12,000 ft. Indian chinese food is similar to the stuff in Singapore. It is thought to have originated in Kolkata from the mainly Hakka community there but ...

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ICG has commissioned an Interceptir Boat in Mumbai, this time built by Bharti Shipyard (of Airtel fame) . 35 knots max speed! How many have been ordered? An ICG Orbat in BR is long overdue!!! They're unrelated I believe. Its Bharati Shipyard, and that's Bharti Airtel. Bharati Shipyard was founded b...

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Woah, see the other photos from http://kuleshovoleg.livejournal.com/136722.html

Mindblowing photos of INS Vikramaditya!

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NASA images show extent of China’s choking pollution http://media.philly.com/images/600*450/china_tmo_2013014.jpg When image was captured on Monday, the air quality index (AQI) in Beijing was 341, NASA reported. An AQI above 300 is considered hazardous to all humans, not just those with heart or lu...

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China's state media finally admits to air pollution crisis If you have been following China’s state-controlled news media you could be forgiven for thinking that clear blue skies -- not oppressive and choking smog -- have been the rule this winter. But, finally, they seem to have noticed there is a...

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While our pilots fly abroad, our airports stay well rooted to the ground. Cost overruns turn big worry for Navi Mumbai Airport project The proposed second airport for Mumbai metropolitan region is to be developed as an alternate airport to the existing Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, whic...

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News is pouring in that UP liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother kill each other in a heavy shootout at their farmhouse in Delhi over property division. The brother died on the spot, while Ponty died on his way to the hospital. Initially it was announced that unidentified persons shot at them, m...

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I hope the F46 is sticking to its date in November!

Hoping for lots of wall paperesque photos fellow rakshaks.

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[url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/dayanithi-alagiri-moves-high-court-against-nbw/article4003298.ece Durai alias Dayanithi Alagiri (26), son of Union Minister M.K. Alagiri, has filed a petition in the Madras High Court Bench here to set aside a non-bailable arrest warrant issued ag...

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Sick Chinese at it again. We all know that the Chinese hate other species, especially if they happen to be endangered. They have consumed innmerable tigers, rhinos and many other endangered species because of their strange fetishes and beliefs. They have bear farms where they collect bile from bears...

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The sound of silence is deafening.

Congress silent over IAC charges against Khurshid

Khurshid says he will sue Kejriwal. Hope he gets an opportunity to lay down his life for his Madam soon.

Toilet of India's saucy headline - "Now, Kejriwal accuses Khurshid of scam."

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PC had said that there is no need for verification. Then around the same time, MCA, Moily said that all verifications had been done and there was nothing untoward noticed. The faithfuls doing the rounds of various tv studios have no idea either way. The family, of course, and as always, is awfully, ...

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Saving Private Vadra The Congress’ rush to go on the offensive when it comes to defending Private Citizen Vadra has shown that the ghost of Giani Zail Singh who boasted that he’d pick up a broom and be a sweeper if his leader asked him to do so, is still alive and well. The Congress’ new brooms def...

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Ratan Tata thanked Rahul Gandhi for opening windows , nay, doors, for India Inc. into J&K. However subservient the Abdullahs may be to the fraud Gandhi's, surely it must be emasculating for Omar to have Amul Baby waltz into the state with the Tatas and Birla in tow and they singing paens of this...

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After counter-attacking NaMo's charge on Sonia Gandhi's #1880, the CONgress minions had hardly got a breather when Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal held a press conference in New Delhi at 5 PM yesterday and began opening up the secrets of the Royal Son-in-Law's shady real estate dealings. Heard ...

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where is this from??

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According to a World Bank report from June 2011, three common types of misconducts in road construction are collusion, fraudulent implementation and false documentation, and these happen across the developing world. Needless to say, I am sure everybody will agree that all three exist in gigantic for...

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As Teja said in Andaz Apna Apna, "Smart, very smart." The Guardian has a very interesting live update page on the violence across the Islamic world . A journalist of the Telegraph reports thousands of Sipah-e-Sahaba members are marching towards Serena Hotel and US Embassy "without sto...

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Man, insurance premiums in Lala land must be some of the highest in the world! Of course, if insurance is Islamic that is.

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Poor UPeeA governmint. It has to part with 2,295 crore of money that it could have used to feed a politician. :( 9 road projects of Rs 11600cr get nod Government on Thursday approved nine road projects, which are estimated to cost around Rs 11,600 crore and to be executed by state governments on pub...

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Thanks to border fencing, business booms in Tripura The sight of Bangladeshi trucks laden with cement, stones, plastic and other items entering Tripura through the Akhaura border near here presents a picture of contrast in the backdrop of border fencing. For, it reflects on how India wants to restr...

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'Tis a season for snags folks.... GSAT-10 launch delayed as Ariane 5 develops ‘small snag’ The launch of communications satellite GSAT-10 will be delayed by at least seven days, to September 29 from September 22, owing to a “small snag” in the Ariane 5 vehicle at the European launch pad in French Gu...

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