Bharat Rakshak

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continuing discussion from Tech Forum started by this BBC survey: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/03survey.htm India's image would be much more positive if India was not so closely associated with terrorism. In Canada, Sikh Khlaistan terrorists blew up AI jet, so the word 'India' is associated w...

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Accounting for bribes received and number of hours put in by Govt Employees in salary calculations is basically institutionalising corruption.it might make "economic" sense on surface but ultimately will cost more to country. Also it does nothing towards the eventual goal of reducing corru...

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Comparision with private sector salaries, some salient points: *Flight of talent due to disparity may not be true the disparities between the private sector salaries and salaries in the Government, citing this as a reason for the reduced attractiveness of the Government as a career option and for th...

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35 Places,People and Things that will shape future. A nice slide-show to go thru...but do look at the 11th:India http://www.eetimes.com/galleries/slideShow.jhtml?galleryID=2&imageID=1 To hear the pundits tell it, India's future in electronics is bleak, and the subcontinent will remain merely an...

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a move long over due.. Capital gain tax on sale of agri land for non-agri purposes Many farm land-owners around extended suburban areas such as Gurgaon and Noida in the National Capital Region have become millionaires by selling their land to real estate developers to make way for the development of...

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was pleasantly surprised to see this image painted at couple of places in Pune during my recent visit to India..

Shivaji-Afzal khan duel..

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Lest we forget

Parliament attack sixth anniversary

...& terrorist Afzal Guru is still alive.

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very likely,Vipul, hence the word "dip", for many reasons: *ULCA will have little effect if not followed by vacant land tax. *land caught up in litigation not likely to be released to market immediately. *if the freed land is primarily used for commercial development instead of housing. *r...

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ULCA scrapping is good news for MH..though it was scrapped under pressure from Center. scraping of ULCA will free up lot of land in MH and so expect land prices to dip in near future especially in suburbs. But it will be useless until it is followed by other laws, esp vacant land tax to discourage l...

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The interesting thing that strikes me about Mysore kingdom is its two muslim de-facto rulers Haider Ali and his son Tippu Sultan. Haider Ali had very humble origins and didn't belong to muslim ruling class....his meteoric rise within the military ranks of a pre-dominantly hindu kingdom,Mysore, is im...

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Hotbed of innovations Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, dean-planning, also part of the TeNet group, talks about achieving great things in a very short time. "The idea is to find out how technology can play a role in improving rural GDP. Migration from rural to urban areas in a country like India ...

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I think the current Pashtun resurgence is due to the suppression of their dreams to integrate with modern India. This thwarted ambtions are being channeled into the struggle against the TSP state. ramana sir...when did pashtun's express their desire to integrate with modern India? They overwhelming...

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The Merchant of Death: Viktor Bout a major illegal arms dealer often supplies arms to both sides of the warring armies.. man who made money of 21st century terrorism and wars....a hardcore capitalist born in comunist soviet union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout Even GOTUS is a customer of t...

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the real issue "if biofuel can be part of India's quest for energy solution or if it is worth pursuing or not" is out in the cold. If it is out in the cold, it is because it is not technically or economically feasible. This,IMHO, has not been proved beyond doubt. Time will be the arbiter....

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I have not accused anyone on this board of being in Oil companies pocket You have taken my request for references too personal for reasons best known to you..if i had known if u were in energy business, prolly i wudnt have even asked......I have been merely citing existence of propaganda machines(oi...

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Today, the bio-diesel program runs on "alternative energy tax credits". It costs about $1/gal to convert soybean oil into gasoline. So, with gasoline at $2.50/gal, guess what it costs for soybean - $1.50/gal, and the $1/gal tax credit is gravy that is pushing up the price of soybean and k...

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Energy density of fuel: Energy available per unit mass or volume of the fuel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density Gasoline: 46.9MJ/KG Ethanol: 30MJ/KG This is inherent chemcial property. Probably, nothing can be done about this. Net energy: As per ur numbers, 0.2J energy is required to make ...

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Are you talking about the amount of energy required to *create* a barrel of crude oil? Nope. I'm alluding to this part which is not captured by energy density: This is a ratio of 4-5 gallons produced per gallon consumed. I think the comparable figure for ethanol is 1.25 gallons per gallon, or somet...

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We know the net energy density per gallon of crude oil and of ethanol, so the rest must be facile. IMO, one metric doesn't capture the whole story (besides this metric doesn't capture amount of energy spent in producing the given energy density). Otherwise other fuels with high energy density would...

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oil lobby at works From my experience in the field, the cost of extraction of the raw material from the biological source is generally highly energy intensive (which is why bio fuels are always within $15/bbl of becoming economically viable), and its refining and converting to a source with high en...

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America, India and the China bogey: A price too high The rise of China is no reason to trample on the non-proliferation regime A very good example of strawman argument! 1) India should be nuclear pariah as it is not member of NPT (Original position) 2) The deal is being signed to hedge against Chin...

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Maersk India move to put India on banana trade map Maersk India Pvt Ltd, the Indian arm of the Copenhagen-based global container giant, has initiated moves to put India on the world banana trade map. The steps being undertaken include facilitating research in banana production, harvesting, warehous...

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Indian bicycle industry to lose huge market shares to China The Ludhiana bicycle industry, more than sixty years old and exporting bicycles and cycle parts across the globe, is likely to lose out up to 50 per cent domestic market share and Rs 100 crore worth exports to Chinese bicycles this year, i...

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Chinese Competition to BHEL for power plants [quote]However, it could do little to overcome the problem as BHEL offers the lowest prices for plant machinery in the 250 Mw to 500 Mw plant category. But, a visit of the high power delegation led by Maharashtra energy minister Dileep Walse-Patil found ...

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but , didn't Babur claim descent from Genghis Khan?

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Sugar cos may get sweetner Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had called a meeting of office bearers of Maharashtra State Co-operative Sugar Factory Federation Ltd, Nabard and State Central Co-operative Bank officials, senior cabinet ministers on Sunday to help the state sugar industry wh...

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Amul seeks PMO aid for milk export ban lift banning of milk powder export is yet another example of GoI screwing farmers to rein in inflation....note that milk production was in surplus for the year and dairy products have low weightage in WPI to boot, which makes the ban illogical. classic way of ...

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IMO, photo-voltaic solar power is a specialised solution addressing specific situations. The area requirements for generating respectable amount of energy are not small. Read the following link which goes through simple excercise. Though the exercise is for Texas, the results for most of India would...

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India Today Article: Raksha Udyog Ratnas(RURs) [quote]DEFENCE: PRIVATE SECTOR The Private Arms Race With private companies gaining entry in the defence sector, there is hope for ramping up competition and achieving self-sufficiency in the field, but the Left is not convinced yet By Sandeep Unnithan ...

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IMVHO, Agriculture shudnt be looked upon as the employment generating sector of the economy. The focus should be to make it a viable and profitable enterprise to farmer and agro-entreprenur just like any enterprise in other sectors. The report on Food and Agro Industries management(posted above) out...

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Why do you have to have standard fruit for juicing operations. How about trying to invent something that does not need such standardization. If successful you could probably sell machine and juice. Anyway I am just an armchair farmer so please explain!! will be interesting to know Theo_Fidel's expe...

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Futures trading in carbon credits soon in India Indiaâ€™s commodity bourses--Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) and National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX)--are gearing up to launch futures trading in carbon credits. The current global price for one tonne of carbon dioxide at the exchange h...

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at the risk of being repetitious..... Interview with Sameer Barde, Director of Confederation of Indian Food Trade & Industry (CIFTI) What are the problems affecting the growth of food processing sector in India? How does the industry body look at the present scenario in-terms of market size? Amo...

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Agriculture Cannot Wait

[quote]Having gone through several ups and downs in the past six decades, Indian agriculture seems to have reverted to square one at least in one respect. It has revalidated the observation made by Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru in his â€œtryst with destinyâ€

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Intel continues to disappoint and pay lip service to the Fab plant in India. Platitudes are great , where is the meat/beef. The last Intel announcement of a facility in China was in June. Meanwhile INTEL India design centre continues to deliver worldwide product innovation. Not to mention that HQ h...

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Sunil Mittal's speech at Upenn: http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu//research/papers/Mittal_2006.pdf Are we using our farms, our farmlands, and our farmers to the fullest potential? The answer is no. We need to move the cropping pattern in India from food grains to crops which are of high value. India is posi...

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Amul becomes a billion dollar company On the contrary, it has just embarked on a mission to increase its revenues to $2.5 billion â€” Rs 10,150 crore at the current exchange rate â€” in just three years . That will require a compounded annual growth rate of over 35 per cent at a time when the indus...

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Labour shortage at textile hub In the past two years sales from Tirupur have almost doubled to Rs 11,000 crore a year :eek: . Now Tirupur's own success has led to problems. When quotas were abolished in 2005 Tirupur's garment exporters went on a huge expansion spree. But they've now realised that t...

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