Bharat Rakshak

India is port of call for global shipping lines P R Sanjai / Mumbai October 24, 2006 Foreign shipping lines are cashing in on the boom in the Indian container market. All global container carriers are either starting new services or enhancing their services connecting India, China and the Far East. ...

Deepak Lal: Reflections on China Deepak Lal / New Delhi October 17, 2006 The essential problem facing the Communist Party is to maintain its legitimacy with the growing marketisation of the economy. I have recently returned from a three-week lecture tour of China, where apart from Beijing and Shangh...

India to join fusion energy bloc in Nov India alongwith the EU, China and four other countries will sign next month an agreement on the joint implementation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project aimed at tapping fusion energy, a senior official said today. The agree...

NSG to get second batch of women commandos [quote]It has been a year since they were inducted into National Security Guard (NSG), but in this short time the 11 women commandos of this special force have proved their mettle to be no less than their male counterparts. In fact, the team has done its d...

State of the India-EU dialogue Ranabir Ray Choudhury Where do Brussels and New Delhi go from here? Will the "advancement" of bilateral relations be in the garb of a free trade arrangement or take the form of a wider CECA? At one level, it can only be good for the planet if India and the E...

Thx vishnu for the info. Before Phalcons, a crash course The IAF's combat pilots gained a firsthand understanding of operating in an AWACS environment as the Royal Air Force’s E3D Sentry AWACS came to India to exploit the full potential of its Tornado F3 intercepters that are taking part in the ex...

Helsinki Summit to boost EU-India partnership The central aim of the summit is to strengthen the strategic partnership between EU and India in line with the joint action plan adopted by the two entities in September 2005 in New Delhi. The Indian delegation to Finland will be led by Prime Minister M...

MCD cancels leave of staff NEW DELHI: With the government heightening its vigil against dengue, MCD has cancelled leave of its employees. Also, hospitals will have to report availability of platelets and shortage of diagnostic tools, if any. Meanwhile, luring the Aedes Aegypti mosquito to an ambush...

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China and India on the Development Path Economic Reforms and Performance: China and India in Comparative Perspective by Subramanian Swamy; Konark Publishers, Delhi, 2003; Hardbound, pp 308, Rs 500. Ashwini Deshpande India-China comparisons are eternally appealing and justifiably so. They are two lar...

In The Line Of Fire So what is common to the Indian army, DOAE, BJP, PML, ISI, US Department of State and many others? Why, they all are deeply upset and outraged at the General's memoirs described variously as "fiction", "a pack of lies", "stingy with the truth", &quo...

Accelerating masses generate gravitational radiation in higher dimension - the world of extraterrestrial intelligence India daily Technology Team Sep. 21, 2006 Accelerating masses generate gravitational radiation in higher dimension.That side of the universe in completely dark for us as we cannot p...

Apsoloutley, I hope it is implemented by the deadline. This can really change things.

Change policy towards India, Sikhs to tell British govt Europe's first – and only – Sikh political party is to call on Sunday from a podium shared by at least one British minister and several MPs, for Britain to change its "policy towards India ...and take a tougher stand on abuse of human...

Shocks to Come PRAVEEN SWAMI in New Delhi Nawab Akbar Bugti's killing could have consequences for the whole region. WHEN the Pakistan Army killed Nawab Akbar Bugti last month, it did more than eliminate the most visible icon of the Baloch nationalist struggle: the shock waves from the bombing of hi...

Dial M for Murder Vikram Sood It has been a strange irony of history. Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the Tamundar of the Bugti tribe, who supported the creation of Pakistan, served as minister in the central cabinet and then as governor of Balochistan — at a time when his fellow Baloch sardars, the Meng...

We were deceived in Kargil: Indian Army KARGIL, J&K, SEPTEMBER 1: The Army was prepared to thwart any repeat of the Kargil intrusions of 1999, which were the result of ‘trusting the adversary’, a senior military officer said in Kargil on Friday. "The Army was deceived by the adversary ...

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man I got this book from a local library. Just read the first few pages on how Ecuador was plundered by the US and other MNCs and governments. A very interesting book on how all the IMF/World bank etc experts force the countries to "globalize" their economie...

GCC expats remit $5 bn annually in India http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1046273 DUBAI: Over four million expatriate Indians staying in the Gulf Cooperation Council states send home a staggering $5 billion annually as remittances, according to a study. According to it, foreign workers send...