Bharat Rakshak

If SAAB Gripen were to be manufactured in India, will it include ToT on GKN engine?

Any news about MRTS services? Being an elevated line for the most part will make it safer.

Sports and politics used to be mixed during apartheid days, why not now?

Back to cricket, tennis, hockey and double standards. India boycotted the 1974 Davis Cup title round against South Africa due to its apartheid policies. Now what did South Africa do to harm India's interests? Well India wanted to occupy a moral high ground, so it couldn't support apartheid. But at t...

http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/11/25/ru ... de-denial/

It happened a 100 years ago; but somebody still remembers.

Putin says Turkey's leaders back 'Islamisation' of Turkish society
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/ ... VTxPt5c.97

Putin doesn't care about political correctness.

Interesting article; contents discussed in BRF before.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles ... gas-attack

Contrarian opinion - not sure when it was published.

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/economy-update/

Russia should enforce a no fly zone over Iraqi Kurdistan.

Its is not oatmeal, but mush that Putin was referring to.

http://news.yahoo.com/putin-slams-us-sy ... 50683.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/putin-says-us-ha ... er-2139325

Aussies are having second thoughts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/adam-l ... 30376.html

Its is about time Russia finish this unfinished business and take Constantinople.
And help reunification of Cyprus.

Israel knows how to adapt.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/di ... ia-attacks

Russian Orthodox Church supports air strikes in Syria:
https://www.rt.com/politics/317045-war- ... is-sacred/

Russian may want to take Constantinople with help from Kurds.

Syrian Kurds want Assad to stay. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/25/kurds-warn-disaster-syria-assad-regime-falls/ Putin also seems to acknowledge the role of Kurds in the fight against ISIS. http://rudaw.net/english/world/290920151 Now if only Iran, Iraq and Syria openly support t...

Something just for fun:
During the Libya crisis, Pravda had coined a term - FUKUS-Axis.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas ... mmunity-0/

Russian response to propaganda war.
Picture of rescue worker and injured girl child (injured before air strikes).

https://www.rt.com/news/317170-russia-a ... ans-syria/

Russia asked US to stay clear of Syrian airspace - links: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-09-30/russia-gave-us-one-hour-to-clear-skies-before-syria-strikes/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-bombing-russian-three-star-general-warned-us-officials-we-request-your-people-lea...

Slightly older news from Xinjiang about coal mine attack:

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ ... 74319.html

Will the western DFC be having links to Kandla and Mundra ports?

Russia should copy Bomber Harris tactics.

Donald Trump seems to be the only US presidential candidate who has endorsed Putin's move in Syria.

Russia has asked US to stay away from Syrian airspace - waiting for the fun to start.

Slightly old article on Xinjiang. http://thediplomat.com/2015/07/troubled-today-chinas-xinjiang-has-a-long-history/ It claims that the original inhabitants of Xinjiang were not Uighurs; but Tocharians(Caucasians) and other people speaking Eastern Iranian languages influenced by Sanskrit, Pali, and G...

Found an interesting entry on Bomber Harris (WW2).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthu ... st_Baronet

Google search will give more links.
His tactics may be useful against ISIS and assorted ISs.

Regarding SG vs BG for Metros; first line of Delhi Metro was built as BG because IR wanted interoperability. But, E.S. being an ex-IR insider chose SG for subsequent lines to avoid being Kargilled by IR. Anyway, state govts are only too happy to keep Metros outside IR control.

If India's GDP (PPP) exceeds Germany + Japan, it will be real Hindu rate of growth.