Bharat Rakshak

Any idea if Indian intelligence is able to crack the reason behind the border firing? Simplistically, appears to be a) diversion against Peshawar attack, b) Obama's visit to India, c) upcoming US aid certification for Pakistan and US-Pak strategic dialog.

Vadodara (erswhile Baroda) gets a *much* needed bus depot makeover. As far as media points go, this may not rank as high as airport terminal makeover these days but this surely services the aam junta much more. In pictures . Is there a masterplan cities like Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda and others in Gu...

Anyone here heard of Narendra Modi's new book (he's authored about 6 but this is the first one in angrezi)...Called "Convenient Action", it is subtitled something like "Gujarat's Response to Challenges Of Climate Change". The book was released by venerable A Kalam on Dec 21st las...

Amazing...The man in this video is an engineering student in TSP.

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I've always loved actions taken in the field much more than meaningless "announcements" of projects. In that vein, here's a bit of good news about work that I wasn't even aware was being done at such rapid pace. Bihar's bridges, way to a new work culture The corporation has in the last thr...

Defence Link (PDF file): Progress towards security & stability in Afghanistan : India reference is only in the context of food supplies (what of the umpteen consulates that apparently are doing a lot more than "issuing visas"?): The food security situation in 2009 is likely to be bette...

Rs.100,000 crore ($22 billion) investment in roads this year “We are committed to the new target of laying 20 kilometres of roads per day, and to achieve this target there needs to be a quantum jump in construction activity across the country,” Nath told reporters after addressing the ‘Build India-...

Kamal Nath unveils massive road development plan http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jh3ru5eeidh&title=Kamal_Nath_unveils_massive_road_development_plan The Minister said that the Ministry has appointed a consultant to look at the feasibility of 15,600 km of expressways in the country. This wou...

The S-e-S harakiri thread is rightfully locked...so let me just post my query here: Like the US, do we have a foreign relations committee in the Indian Parliament? These folks would be privy to the highest level of confidential security details and would be constituted of key players from both sitti...

An industrial park exclusively for electronics hardware is coming up in Cochin. Here is a flash movie: ... This design is logic defying. There is a hospital, an entertainment center, a manufacturing facility, a hotel/conf center, AND a residential complex -- all in a few square blocks. For proper d...

While I don't think this can be replicated in Indian cities effectively, the following is nevertheless an impressive achievement for a country like Columbia. From concept to ribbon cutting: 3 years. They faced some of the same problems as Delhi with highly polluting private buses gridlocking the roa...

Govt set to make computers available @ Rs 500 The computer will be a small equipment with expandable memory, LAN and Wi-Fi facilities. The government will also produce e-content on every subject which will be made available free of cost...The scheme would cost Rs 4,612 crore in the 11th Plan. "...

NYT: 2 Militants Die in Shootout in India, Police Say By HARI KUMAR Published: January 25, 2009 NEW DELHI — The Indian police said Sunday that two Pakistani militants were killed in a shootout in a suburb of New Delhi, a day before India’s Republic Day celebrations. NYT is getting soft on the war o...

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Jammu encounter enters fourth day

Wonder if we're being restrained in not using full air power from all sides and bunker-busting bombs. hate to see our jawans losing life over these scumbags.

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The Tricolour is flying proudly on PDF - Time for a screenshot

http://pakistanidefenceforum.com/

AWESOME! My kudos to whomever hacked in this beauty

Someone please correct me if i'm wrong, but a few posts have mentioned Saras as a "jet engine"...as far as I know, this has twin turbo engines, non-native (US). ya?

US is getting to taste the lying bits of pakistan finally. We provided leads about Khan earlier: US This in response to Mush's NY times interview where he stated that US did not pass "all" the information it had about Khan, else he would have acted earlier and this would not have gone so f...

Expecting the Bush administration to publicly recognize Pakistani perfidities is like asking him to hammer one more nail in his de-election coffin. He and his adminstration are almost checkmated by democrats (he'd never have agreed otherwise to ask for an "intelligence lapse review") regar...

1) What is it about Bharat Rakshak (and the forum) that makes you want to keep coming back every day? This place is like peer review for scientific papers. You can't barf wrong info and get away with it, ergo, you always are better informed than those pathetic many who choose not to be cognizant of...

Originally posted by GauravS: ...a 4 lane is preferred because, in most cases the accumulating cost of maintanence on six lanes is more than the cost of constructing additional lanes later on, and then there is another Cost and benefit study, the simple fact is that unless there is traffic to justi...

NO way Jose...this reminds me of the proverbial camel who ended up taking the tent. IMHO, US would not make a suggestion in public fora without being convinced that it won't be slapped down by MEA. Two possibilities stand out: a) US realizes that the war against terror is not over until the scum in ...

Originally posted by Nikhil Shah: Why announce it now? This chap has been in custody for a month now. The official reason for announcing this now is they need to meet a legal deadline. Probably true and it probably also meets US's agenda of making India panic that such devices may be deployed in In...

<B>Stem Cell Research @ Reliance </B> <P>Silence and lack of transparency has often been the bane of India - govt. or companies. In Agra we had MEA that would refuse to tell journos anything about anything while TSP were having a field day. In the following article (wsj has subscription), Reliance's...