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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Rhino-shot-dead-in-Assam/articleshow/32715280.cms MORIGAON: A rhino was shot dead and its horn taken away by a gang of poachers, two of whom were killed in an encounter with forest guards in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in central Assam ...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Kaziranga-loses-third-rhino-in-five-days/articleshow/32597826.cms GUWAHATI: Kaziranga national park lost its third rhino in a span of five days as poachers continued to bleed the one-horned pachyderm at the Unesco world heritage site. T...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Lakhimpurs-killer-tigress-caught-released-in-Dudhwa/articleshow/31813464.cms Lakhimpur’s killer tigress caught, released in Dudhwa TNN | Mar 11, 2014, 05.39 AM IST LUCKNOW: In a first for the UP forest department, a tigress that had kil...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/business/international/worlds-biggest-arms-importer-india-wants-to-buy-local.html?hp&_r=0 Front page in the NYT... (posting in full) World’s Biggest Arms Importer, India Wants to Buy Local By GARDINER HARRIS MARCH 6, 2014 NEW DELHI — Of the 30 countries that att...

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On the subject of terminology for those afflicted... Here in the States, different communities have come up with the following terms for those among them with such symptoms... 1) Coconuts - Brown outside, white inside (lots of coconuts in the Indian Media fraternity) 2) Oreo Cookies 3) Bananas #'s 2...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/world/europe/so-many-bribes-a-greek-official-cant-recall-all.html?hp&_r=0 Posting in full - a thoroughly corrupt "system" - and what it takes to uncover the bitter truth. An object lesson for India... one shudders to think of what must be happening in ...

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Pranay saheb, Looked it up on the interwebz and found a picture. Looks like they can probably be rotated up as well as the top and LH view seem to indicate Yes, i'm aware (I have served on an aircraft carrier) - these antennae can be pivoted up and down - they are horizontal during flight ops... Pl...

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ManjaM wrote:what are the "fishing poles", 7 in number" on the left side of Vik.

Eric Leiderman wrote:They would support a netting for safety reasons

They are Pole (communication) antennae...

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But whats Vikram_Adee towing behind her. Towed Sonar Array There are two cables going out to the sea. Seen in other pics too. PIX 4.jpg from Gokhale's blog: Vikram is dragging two lines in the water, what is it? Most likely - towed decoys were deployed - something along the lines of the following.....

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Once surprise is lost, it will be much more difficult to target Karachi. What weapon systems to use where depends on the kind of target. Pretty much everything will be thrown at them - surface, sub-surface, and air. Depending on where they are launched from - the Prithvi/Agni combo will always come...

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http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/actor-sanjay-dutt-gets-a-month-s-parole-says-wife-is-unwell-455442?pfrom=home-otherstories Once again i wonder... what happens to the concept of Crime & Punishment?? This has become a circus and an eyewash for the "High & Mighty" ... Actor Sanjay Du...

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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/a-conversation-with-author-adrian-levy/?ref=world Very Interesting interview... would like to get my hands on this book... (posting in full) In the five years since Pakistani gunmen killed 163 people in Mumbai, many authors have written about the attacks, bu...

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Lalmohan wrote:but there was already some tension ahead of that incident, it wasnt entirely out of the blue

... not to prolong this on the Vikramaditya thread - but, yes. Impetus, among other things was the bombing of the USO in Naples and then the bombing of the Discotheque in Berlin...

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Pranay, That is Russia. Any other country, yes. Remember the Libyan incident in the early 80s. They shot down a couple Libyan MiGs for getting too close to the carriers. Remember?? I was there!! The Russians followed us all the way in to the Gulf of Sidra - close in (surface and air) - till the tim...

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Guru, But the USN mandates and enforces a no fly zone around their carriers. They will shoot down anything that is not friendly that comes close to their carrier, peacetime or not. Where ever did you get such ideas?? Pray tell!! :roll: Having served in the USN - on an Aircraft Carrier - have seen m...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24426555 Tucked away in the northern-most recesses of the insurgency-hit region of Kashmir, a community is fighting a little-known battle to keep Islamist militants at bay. And the charge is led by none other than a band of housewives. During the last three years...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/I-am-disappointed-wanted-our-PM-to-visit-Jaffna-Salman-Khurshid/articleshow/25838159.cms Is this guy for real?? Whining like this on foreign shores... External affairs minister Salman Khurshid expressed regret on Friday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh coul...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/world/asia/passenger-train-in-northeast-india-hits-elephant-herd.html?ref=world&_r=0 :( There has got to be a better way :( NEW DELHI — A passenger train speeding through northeast India barreled into a herd of elephants as they crossed a set of tracks late Wedn...

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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/a-conversation-with-former-political-editor-of-open-magazine-hartosh-singh-bal/ Posting in full... A Conversation With: Former Political Editor of Open Magazine Hartosh Singh Bal By ELLEN BARRY Hartosh Singh Bal, the political editor of Open magazine, announ...

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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/a-conversation-with-former-indian-army-chief-gen-vijay-kumar-singh/?_r=0 Posting in full... A Conversation With: Former Indian Army Chief Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh By HARI KUMAR Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh was the chief of the Indian Army from March 2010 to May 2012...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/leader-in-insurgent-network-is-killed-in-pakistan.html?ref=world&_r=0 The killing added to an impression of increased turbulence for the militant groups harbored in Pakistan’s tribal belt, including Al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban and the Haqqani netw...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/leader-in-insurgent-network-is-killed-in-pakistan.html?hp&_r=0 Nasiruddin Haqqani, a son of the Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and the group’s chief fund-raiser, was shot dead by a gunman riding a motorbike outside a bread store on Sunday night, th...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24898804 Nasiruddin Haqqani: Pakistan senior militant 'shot dead' One of the most senior leaders of the Haqqani militant network has been shot dead near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, reports say. Nasiruddin Haqqani, who was in his early 30s, was the group's f...

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http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/a-conversation-with-indian-ambassador-to-afghanistan-amar-sinha/?ref=world&_r=0 A Conversation With: Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha By BETWA SHARMA Having occurred amid growing fears about the security situation after the U.S. pullout from A...

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/11/05/world/asia/ap-as-india-mars-mission.html?hp&_r=0 Some have questioned the $72 million price tag for a country of 1.2 billion people still dealing with widespread hunger and poverty. But the government defended the Mars mission, and its $1 billion space ...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Patna-blasts-probe-Centre-expresses-frustration-over-carelessness-of-Bihar-cops/articleshow/25272325.cms This level of unprofessional conduct by the Bihar Administration - and no heads roll!! Truly pathetic commentary of the depths to which governance has fal...

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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/366279/scientists-design-india039s-largest-nuclear.html Scientists design India's largest nuclear reactor Kalyan Ray , New Delhi, Oct 30, 2013 DHNS: Scientists have designed India's first 900-MW light-water nuclear reactor to catapult the country into the big leag...

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http://www.mediacrooks.com/2013/10/mira ... nDwEfk_vCt

The "Yellow Journalism" practiced at the cost of the nation and people....

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http://www.mediacrooks.com/2013/10/miracle-at-gandhi-maidan.html#.UnDwEfk_vCt Came across the above blog... will also cross post it on the media thread. Very interesting to read the long list of reader reaction to the article... Character doesn’t develop in a crisis, it reveals it. That is exactly w...

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Rahul M - Thanks for the picture of the venue and the placements/timelines of the bomb blasts. What puzzles me is the brazenness and audacity of these people placing multiple devices across the venue and at the train station - during daytime as per the quote below. Seems that these terrorists didn't...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/Rhino-killed-by-poachers-in-Kaziranga-National-Park/articleshow/24693290.cms GUWAHATI: A rhino was shot dead by poachers in Kaziranga National Park in Assam but its horn was left intact, park sources said on Friday. On hearing gun shots...

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http://google.org/crisismap/2013-phailin?gl=in

Cyclone Phailin - Landfall and other details on Google ... (Source - U. S. Navy)

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Satellites

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Will-implement-voters-right-to-reject-candidates-straight-away-Election-Commission/articleshow/23169193.cms NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday said it would straight away implement the Supreme Court judgment directing it to provide a "None of t...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24294995 India's Supreme Court has ruled that voters have the right to reject all candidates in elections. It ordered the Election Commission to provide a button on the voting machine which would give voters the option to choose "none of the above"...

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http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=811686 In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court today held that voters have a right to reject all candidates contesting polls in a constituency by pressing a button for negative vote, saying this would compel political parties to field "sound...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Supreme-Court-gives-voters-right-to-reject-all-candidates/articleshow/23144039.cms Finally - Right to Reject sees the light of day - Thank You Indian Supreme Court :) NEW DELHI: In a landmark judgement on Friday, the Supreme Court for the first time allowed v...

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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/will-act-against-serving-or-retired-officer-if-any-wrongdoing-proved-govt/1171983/ http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/left-right-centre/ex-army-chief-under-fire-has-vk-singh-tarnished-the-army-chief-s-office/291378?hp http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-buck-stops-he...

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http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/playing-at-war How two madmen brought the world to the brink of a third great war Extracted from ‘The Blood Telegram: India’s Secret War in East Pakistan’ by Gary J Bass, with permission from Random House India Nixon/Kissenger... and the 1971 India Pakis...

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INR $68.7 = $1 --> How much does a Rafale cost now??

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