Bharat Rakshak

On SSC India, a few pics of the Salem-Krishnagiri stretch were posted recently: pic1 pic2 pic3 The thread on the subject on that forum is: India Highways Thread ( Photos only ) from what i see in those pics (and in others on the SSC forums), the road infrastructure in india is a lot better than the...

SSridhar wrote:Does Beijing really want to break-up India ?

B Raman's response to this article (for those that havent read it already):

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpap ... r3360.html

Till now in US, swineflu episodes was used more to browbeat Mexicans, than being considered as a real threat to general public. the general panic may have died out now, but at its height 2/3 months ago, the swine flu hysteria was just as bad in the US as it seems it is right now in India. Schools w...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) claims the US needs to keep the F-22 fighter plane program alive in order to deal with emerging international threats -- including India (which is the first country he thinks of when coming up with his list of enemies): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9By-fHG4s :shock: :roll...

Does anyone have any details on the implementation on the NREGs and the Bharat Niman programmes ? If these two are even half-way implemented and have one-half of their expected results, the impact on India's human development could be enormous. Sanjay, have you read this article on NREGA by Jean Dr...

didnt see this posted http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/05/pipelineistan-goes-af-pak too long to post in full, but a worthwhile read... excerpt: Now that's as classic as the New Great Game in Eurasia can get. There's NATO vs. the SCO. With either IPI or TAPI, Turkmenistan wins. With either IP...

Stand-off shows Chinese navy's secret tactics Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunday, when crewmen involved in a stand-off with a US surveillance ship in the South China Sea revealed the fleet's previously hidden firepower. :mrgreen:

^good luck on your project jon!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101087530 Steve Coll's interview on NPR yesterday regarding Kashmir and India/Pakistan Non-Paper on a settlement ... Listen to the whole audio file ... here's a link to the article that he wrote. http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/20...

Indian businesses investing in Kashmir, whether it be clothes, jewelry, computers, movies, etc. should be encouraged. Does Article 370 not allow this? there was an article in the Hindu last week by Praveen Swami that briefly described one such effort of a businessman trying to invest in Kashmir: ht...

god save the world from these savages http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html Afghan girls maimed by acid vow to go to school Shivering in pain and calling for her mother, Shamsia's hands shake uncontrollably, her eyes swollen shut and her skin peeling from terrible acid ...

" Why would we entertain Pakistani business people? Why would we entertain tourists in India? Why would we send tourists there?" Mr Chidambaram refused to discuss when such measures might be introduced, but said: "We need co-operation soon. " wow. act, or we're going to stop iss...

"I have not gone and occupied any of Pakistan's land which Israel has done in Palestine. So, how the situation can be comparable," Mukherjee asked during an interview to a TV channel. :?: why bring this up and potentially hurt the sentiments of one of your allies? he should have stopped r...

Just to let the moderators and fellow forum members know, this will be my last post here, i joined these forums being a staunch Hindustani patriot who has immense love for his motherland, but this forum has lot of red tape and too much beauracracy just like the past, present, and future state of In...

http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/23/stories/2008122355560800.htm For secessionists, humiliation follows hubris :lol: Praveen Swami “Elections are ultimately projected as a sort of referendum by India, and that is why we have called for a complete boycott of such a process,” said the chairman of the All ...

the pakistani 'ordinary' citizens wish no such thing. of course they will rather have an India that is demolished without a frontal confrontation with their country, one they know they can't win. but that does not mean that the avg pakistani is averse to the use of force without *ANY* reservations ...

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thanks ramana!

As I see it,we on BR can contribute immensely in the international arena especially by helping winning the Propaganda War.This war as I said at the time of the Kargil War,is as important as winning the war on the battlefield.The Russians have just experienced the drawback of being subjected to adve...

From IT http://youtube.com/watch?v=jNie0HzPmaY The sensationalism of this story is ridiculous. isnt that how headlines news generally is though? its almost painful to watch that channel -- when they arent showing some overly sensationalized piece, theyre talking about the WWF wrestler Khali, or som...

Katare wrote:Separate thread for "Vishnu-BR" exclusive please

and be sure that the two responses by shiv and George J are included in that thread....

it would be awesome if Vishnu Som could do a followup piece in which he gets an experienced IAF officer to debrief the indian public about Red Flag along the lines of shiv's email.

i'm sure the IAF is above that type of stuff, but it would be nice still...

From SV blog:- http://svaradarajan.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-berman-bombshell-and-ghosts-of.html Taken together, it is clear that while India is seeking to establish clear rights and legally binding obligations as far as future fuel supplies are concerned, the U.S. emphasises the political continge...

Worst of all, all FBRs and all the Thorium based Reactors that we use for generating power for India, would have to placed under safeguards, even though everything that may go in would be of Indian origin. i'm not sure i understand this part. why would FBRs and thorium based reactors using Indian u...