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^Are you talking about desi winters? I once spent an entire winter in Vermont, with my trusty old VW for company. Not one issue I had, considering I had to start the car in knee deep snow, and -10F cold.

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It gets more interesting - GoI is helping out Spice Jet by forking over public money. Can't the MoCA ask the owners of SpiceJet to plonk in some cash first - they definitely have the werewithal to do so. Why use public money at the outset? It will be interesting to see what funding SpiceJet can line...

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Now Spice Jet wants a govt bailout. What's ailing these airlines exactly? Just fare wars and high ATF prices? Clearly the market is attractive enough for new airlines to start up (Air Asia India, now Vistara), so what's wrong with the current crop? As SpiceJet seeks bailout, govt says ‘no assurance’...

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A good summary from the horse's mouth - http://www.indembassyhavana.net/en/node/40 An interesting nugget from the link: Indian culture and civilization is well appreciated in Cuba. Yoga and Vipassana are practised and the former forms part of the health curriculum of the Government . [Edited] And i...

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Well, all that video shows is that the sub was going out to sea. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Hopefully POTUS is driven by business and less by politics specially when we have a clean record with proliferation Sir, that's a very very big if. Especially since Obama is now a lame duck, he won't be able to promise anything that we can take seriously. We should nod our heads to whatever he says...

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Saurav Jha's article on the previous page says this: Of the remaining three, MDL is known to have made a case before the government for continuing their submarine building line, so that the capabilities it has built up as a result of Project 75 ( i.e the Scorpene project) 'do not go waste'. Since al...

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Hmm, so the Brits arrest Indian fishermen in the Indian ocean.

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How very obliging of Navy and IT to broadcast this. Now everybody will be trying to get its acoustic signature. I remember reading a scenario story a long time ago (by Dileep saar, I think) about the launch of a new sub, and a welcome party waiting in the BoB. Interesting to say the least. Folks wh...

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Krishnan sir, we should care. Whether we like it or not, they are 'mainstream' media. This is a very serious issue if Indian media is doing the bidding of some vested power that is not India's. Sure, folks on BRF know better, but what about the aam abduls out there? They will only get served Ombaba'...

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That makes it one of the most productive visits - $100B agreements in 22 hours - isko bolte hain paisa vasool! On a slight tangent, I found it interesting that the MSM did not give much space to this visit. It was almost like when the Aus PM visited, only difference being Russia is not Australia. I ...

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^^ From the article: Bidhannagar police took custody of Sajid, the biggest catch in the Burdwan blast case, in connection with a bike theft racket 24 hours before he was to be produced in court today , shocking NIA sleuths probing the explosion. Lawyers said there was no bar on an investigative agen...

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^^ matrimc saar, that was me who mentioned JNU 'could be' our Berkeley, by which I meant that they could play the role of the useful idiot for India. Much like how Berkeley does for Foggy bottom, in spite of its apparent 'strengths' in the areas you mentioned.

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^^ Thanks Marten saar, hope it stays that way. In mind, I was contrasting this pic with INS Rajali in Arakkonam, which was surrounded by a high concrete wall with watch towers placed periodically, and a menacing message on the wall - "trespassers will be shot". I was on a train that goes a...

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Is it just my (paranoid) mind, or do others think that the carrier's dock is not secure? Shouldn't there at least be a high compound wall blocking line of sight from the main road? I understand CSL is a civilian agency, but when building Naval assets, they should have and use a more secure dock.

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Next time, pick a random TV crew and tell them that they can get an exclusive. Send them out to recce a bunker while they telecast live. Our boys can sit back and gather intel over TV. These crews will come under fire no doubt, that will teach them a lesson. Fines won't work, they will factor that c...

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^^ deejay sir, what would you recommend as direct action? The reason I ask is, are we prepared to take direct action by starting an artillery barrage (I don't know if this is what you had in mind, hence the above question) and taking the fight up a few notches? How long would our stores last in such...

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An interview with the CONS: Indian Navy is in the process of a transformation: Navy chief - S. Anandan, The Hindu Excerpts: Question: But the Navy, though expanding, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. A spate of accidents has given it a bad name. What are the measures undertaken ...

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From BR home page: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=21473 Indian Navy keen on developing Tuticorin port - PTI, Economic Times CHENNAI; Indian Navy is planning to further develop the port capabilities of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu to be able to make it as one of its forward operating...

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vasu raya wrote:
Shaun wrote:which online newspapers using Disqus ?? IE , living media group .
ibnlive.in.com (cnn), hindustantimes.com, dnaindia.com, newindianexpress.com

Also, niticentral, newslaundry.com, firstpost, open magazine...

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X-Post from the US relations thread - A departure from the usual passive reporting about the US: Another op-ed, The Hindu seems to be on a roll. Posting in full, as IMHO, these are rare examples of some 'positive news' about khan land by desi media. Contours of prejudice - Narayan Lakshman, The Hind...

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X-Post from the US relations thread - A departure from the usual passive reporting about the US: Racism and law enforcement - Editorial, The Hindu A grand jury’s exoneration of Darren Wilson, the white police officer who on August 9 shot dead an unarmed teenager on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri,...

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Btw, pliss to read the comments attached to both articles above - very insightful, and tells us why Khan gets away with anything against India and why an 'equal-equal' narrative with India's problems is so easy to sustain.

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Another op-ed, The Hindu seems to be on a roll. Posting in full, as IMHO, these are rare examples of some 'positive news' about khan land by desi media. Contours of prejudice - Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu The Ferguson episode shows how nothing has changed for the African-American community since Abr...

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Finally, an Indian newspaper calling it as it is: Racism and law enforcement - Editorial, The Hindu A grand jury’s exoneration of Darren Wilson, the white police officer who on August 9 shot dead an unarmed teenager on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, sent shock waves across the United States this...

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Many a time, the SL Tamil fishermen themselves complain to the SL navy, leading to the arrest of Indian Tamil fishermen. There were some reports in The Hindu about this a while back. Apparently, they are not happy that the Indian fishermen poach their catch having exhausted the catch on the Indian s...

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Austinji - wasn't the SWIFT issue why India couldn't pay Iran for the oil we purchased, and had to work out some alternate arrangement through a desi bank in Kolkata?

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What Modi has got is a media coup for India in the West! Western media has a habit of ignoring India! Bigger profile in West, is simply good for business! Saar, most of it will be the usual rubbish promoted as news, some gratuitous references to cows, caste, etc. There will be more focus on the new...

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Wasn't there another article that stated the JDY accounts had brought in INR 5000 crores or so, and the avg account balance was 750 bucks? Added later: found it. Jan Dhan balance tops Rs 5,000 crore mark, nearly 7 crore accounts opened - ToI NEW DELHI: The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana has so far m...

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^^Just another NYT hit job, trying to push solar tech, preferably US', nothing new in it. The reference to Welspun is only a red herring. India’s megacities are among the world’s hottest, with springtime temperatures in Delhi reaching 120 degrees. Traffic, which will only increase with new mining ac...

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^^Raja saar, I didn't mean 'to not interfere' in US' affairs, or respect their privacy - my point was what they are doing is not something we should take even cognizance of, and definitely not think US is doing us a favour. This entire investigation is to put on a show for us, and it is not worth In...

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I think we are giving too much importance to the RR investigation. How exactly is this investigation beneficial to India, for some quid-pro-quo to apply? She is not even an active SD official at this point. This investigation is internal to the US, and as far as India is concerned, nothing has chang...

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Is Nakkeeran Gopal still around? He sort of fell off the radar after Veerappan was killed.

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Guys, I am bit confused about the control placement discussion above. Let me say what I have observed so far: Left hand drive: steering wheel is on the left side and one uses the left hand to primarily control the wheel. US, Germany, Canada, China most of Europe and S. America use left hand drive. P...

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^^ We don't have the advantage of oceans all around us, nor are we expeditionary in nature, so that does not apply to India. Any conflict will see the land forces getting involved off the bat.

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^^ You might want to tone down your indignation a bit buddy. Where in the above post is Philip sir defending genocide? As for this, Stop spouting BS if you have no clue about how british rule started and spread Why don't you enlighten us, since you seem to know everything about it. Also, some gyan o...

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Tried all that sir, including:
- flushing cache
- renewing IP connection
- re-registered IP connection
- added BRF to hosts file
- changed adapter to use public and Google's DNS
- rebooted modem and router

None of them worked.

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^^^ Americans have identified Chennai as the future capital of an independent Christian country carved out of South India. All their moves are in this direction. will fail eventually.. however it is vulnerable. recent pope declaration of Christianity on the wrong side of science is enough indicatio...

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch... Brookings India keen on presence in Chennai - K. Venkataramanan, The Hindu Strobe Talbott, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and president of Brookings Institution, is of the view that governments are now quite open to independent inputs on policy matters, provid...

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^^ Street lights, signal posts, etc. are used in a lot more areas, but these are usually just random piecemeal efforts. What we need is a directed plan of harnessing solar in a big way. Something like railway solar power would drive enough demand to kick start the industry and provide enough demand ...

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