Bharat Rakshak

In fully loaded flight, Air India stuffed in 3 extra persons

Of these three, one woman passenger was accommodated in the cockpit and two others on the foldable seats where cabin crew sits during take off and landing

I am India

A must watch video for all!

ramana wrote: BTW that red and white checked shawl is called gamcha in Andhra!

Wow! It's called the same in Bihar/Eastern UP, "gamcha"!

I was trying to find out the origins of the current crisis and Ashok V. Desai has a possible explanation below. A TIME OF TREMORS- Sensations may not have ended yet in the US financial markets I would start the story with the election of George W. Bush. Like Manmohan Singh, he has been a spendthrift...

yindus have been at the receving end of hate for 13 centuries. lately the EJs have also piled on. we have 1 billion really angry people in India who are at the receiving end of this hate and have a 'right' to go out and slaughter and bomb anyone to express their anger. they also have a 'right' to e...

the "friendly country requiring our assistance" is most likely to be Afghanistan? Or will India be providing peace keepers for Iraq to allow Unkil to redeploy? There must be a big Quid Pro Quo for Unkil clearing this deal How are large-scale deployments going to work in Afghanistan? Eithe...

Review of military missions (abroad)

The Indian military establishment, spurred by the nuclear waiver, has begun a review of overseas deployments with A.K. Antony calling on the army, the navy and the air force “to be ready for force projection” in foreign territories

This is what you had said earlier: Sorry if I misunderstood you. Pls quote the entire context at which I said that. Selective reading of just one post in isolation distorts things. The post you quoted was in in the context of the news of of the ICICI exposure to Lehman. But even before that news ca...

Thanks a lot for your reply vina ji! I will wait for the next bottom with my gun powder dry :-) But wait a min, all my gun powder is kept with a private bank, Kotak mahindra. And all your prediction about some of these going belly up is making me quite jittery. Also read about you transferring to S...

No.. :rotfl: Please read what i wrote carefully. The next bottom, I think could be the bottom. Thanks a lot for your reply vina ji! I will wait for the next bottom with my gun powder dry :-) But wait a min, all my gun powder is kept with a private bank, Kotak mahindra. And all your prediction about...

vina wrote: The Fed has put the bottom of the market fairly in place.

Vina ji, then are you suggesting that the last low in stock market is probably the bottom? How about the Indian market?

Swamy G ji the prices went up for two reasons a) because of low intrest rate and easy availabity of funds b) because speculative.buyers entered the market because house values were appreciating nation wide more than 6 percent and money from stocks started flow into housing Typing from blak berry ca...

one reason could be the US kept on printing dollar notes at a rapid pace but as worlds reserve currency, they could enjoy both high injection of $$ and high growth with low inflation. PRC took care both of supplying goods cheaply and recycling the $$ back into T-bills which meant the US Govt kept o...

Some more 101 stuff for inquisitive minds: How We Got Here: It's Housing, Stupid Question for the Gurus: Everyone says that the current crisis is due to the housing bubble. I understand how this housing bubble led to the present crisis. But what caused the massive rise in the home prices in the fir...

India engaged in illicit nuclear trade: US report Sensitive drawings depicting the inner workings of a centrifuge, used to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs, were being sold by an Indian government agency for as little as $10 (about Rs 450) in 2006, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The paper ...

I wonder why the Russians don't put up bases in Venezuela, for that matter? Given their petro-oriented policies, they should cultivate influence wherever they can consolidate their strongest monopoly. Monroe doctrine? The Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. doctrine which, on December 2, 1823, stated that Eu...

Good news on Kashmir issue soon, says Zardari He further said contacts were underway on Kashmir issue and soon people would hear good news before Indian polls. Zardari said he was also aware of back door contacts on Kashmir issue and announced to form a Kashmir committee soon. Looks like something ...

Bull's Eye "Pretty impressive! China is definitely the wave of the future!" "China?" he exclaimed. "Who said anything about China? - by Rajinder Puri After a group of Indian women journalists visited China I read their newspaper accounts with avid interest. Seeing my intere...

Something happened in 1965 - the US tried to give Kashmir and Kutch to Pakistan In January 1966, HJB was killed I think the article about US urging India to develop nukes, threaten China etc, are all psyops. Some events around this time: 1. US helps create a situation (Tibet, Kalimpong etc) where I...

Bomb on a Bullock Cart Chief problem for India's nuclear advocates, of course, is their nation's deep emotional attachment to the principles of nonviolence, as practiced by Gandhi and internationally canonized by the late Jawaharlal Nehru. In a speech to students last week, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Neh...

US firm offers India thorium reactors According to the company, its reactor "starts up using conventional uranium-based nuclear fuels, and incrementally converts to an all-thorium fuel cycle over a period of 10 years, using India's abundant supply of thorium ores to maintain energy independenc...

The concluding part of his essay is Relations between India and China have improved vastly. Now what is needed is a readiness on both sides seriously to reflect on their mistakes, coupled with a determination to settle the boundary dispute by creative diplomacy. Both seek the U.S.’ friendship. Bu...