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Hyderbad US consulate has longest waiting times in India for Visa appointments. Current waiting time for H1B visa appointment @ HYD is in excess of 4 months. They are currently using Chiran fort (Nizam vintage?) in Begumpet. They are literally using windows of the main building as interview counters...

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I am unaware of the context in which this expression was used, but I am guessing the word used may have been bondha and not bondu . Bondu/bondhu: Draw-string, as in what is used to fasten a loose pajama around waist Bonda/bondha: Burial mound, as in the spot a dead body has been interred at. During ...

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Analysis of the results by Rajat Sharma @ IndiaTV. Savor this: BJP skewered Scamgress in 133 of 137 seats where they were one-on-one.

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Sumeet wrote:Where is Dilbu ? We need him till 4 PM India time.

Dilbu saar is giving 'my dog ate my update report' excuse to get out of his customer meeting at 2 PM!

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Ardeshir wrote:
KL Dubey wrote:^^LOL, at least they could have removed the headline logo "India with RG" to project credibility....

What credibility, hainjee?

For why is NDA placed on top of the table in withRG exit poll? What order is it?

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A_Gupta wrote:Which pollster was most accurate in 2014?

Today's Chanakya

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Karakat sahab, I am speaking of the emboldened part. Nirbhay has a single piece wing which rotates along the midpoint to deploy, so on one side it will be on the upper side and on the lower side on the other It opens on the the bottom on both sides. Kakarat saar is obviously picturing missile in bo...

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How :wink: Like this https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5KayIIi4ur_oiXgqe4Vt-uWlTHpx393kuVcrqOW49_2yko28y1Q Kakarat saar, please post a link to the video the above image is captured from. The test engineer I presume is demonstrating how single piece wing snaps into position.

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we really have no indication the Nirbhay has any sea skimming capability Please watch the interview with the Nirbhay scientists by Anantha Krishna M Low altitude (multiple media reports with 5m references) and shore-hugging (stay below shore based radar envelopes) capabilities were specifically cal...

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Incidentally, yesterday when I was watching a video of this, YouTube app recommended an amateur video of how SpaceX manages the accuracy. Among other things like restartable motors, fine control thrusters, lattice vanes, most striking part was very structured product development with grasshopper(?)...

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^^Maybe he was thinking of Falcon Heavy, which uses liquid fueled core stage and boosters. For the first time only in second launch of Falcon Heavy they recovered all three stages !!! It is no short of science fiction --- hats off to Elon Musk and Space X team. This video is for everyone who loves ...

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JayS wrote:Interception at upward vector is good no..? It conclusively proves that the ASAT PDV MK2 is capable of much higher altitude interception (and range).

DRDO chief is on record stating interception altitude capability of more than 1000 km. This specification need not be considered speculative, IMHO.

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Isnt it possible that the sacrificial satellite's attitude was changed to present a bigger target.. given this was the first test? There are so many imponderables in these things that outsiders can only guess. Exactly. Issue command to satellite to turn 'toasty' side of the body and solar panels to...

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There have been Dhanush dress rehearsal flights preceding ABM test flights of the past, where target gets tracked but electronically neutralized. This test appears to be validation test for a sneakier target. Hemant Kumar Rout on Dhanush Test The t est was aimed at checking the performance of manoeu...

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It was always a no-fly zone for non-military manned aircraft but I guess even police/security drones are forbidden this time. The given-in bit is media spin of course. Why, Obama thinks we are going to drone him like he drones Taliban in Af-Pak? Or lacking confidence in security of the UAV command ...

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Is it a barter?: Tamil Nadu CEO as Varanasi poll observer for inaction on Rahul G's poll booth misadventure.

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My guess would be wrong, but the crowd does not look 2 lakhs from the photo above. Maybe it ahs been taken when the crowd has not fully assembled. Do you notice height from which it is taken?. One can see curvature of the earth. Saar, that is optical aberration from wide-angle lens on the UAV that ...

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Directional warhead did not fire because miss-distance was greater than what was aimed for?

Sanjay wrote:Anyone care to comment on this:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/i ... 953934.ece

chackojoseph, any fresh insight ?

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My immediate cousin & his friends (from Dilsukhnagar area of Hyderabad) have apparently pledged their political affiliation to local INC leader/MLA in return for generous contributions to their annual Vinayaka-Chavithi celebrations. Some other cousins in IT-VITY fields are leaning towards JP of ...

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This 'TheHindu' report by Y. Mallikarjun from two weeks ago carried more pertinent details: India to conduct complex interceptor missile test In another fortnight, India will be conducting one of the most complex interceptor missile tests. For the first time a state-of-the-art interceptor missile at...

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Did anyone notice a minor oscillation of the interceptor upon launch, or is it my eyes tricking me with moving foliage in the background?

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How do they have a count down for an interceptor launch? One thing is we could see the angulation of the launch platform changing while the count down was occurring. Saar, stabilization that is seen in the initial frames is from the ship-borne target onlee. IMHO, there is a minimal interceptor coun...

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Please ID the following, being misreported as part of a 'helicopter' by The Hindu. 'Exhaust' nozzle appears to be non-metallic. A towed target, perhaps?

Helicopter remnants found near Itchapuram

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<OMG(Out of Musharraff Guess)> Offload cargo from nearest mainland railway/roadway (Paradip or Dhamra?) and use a barge to what appears like jetty on the west side of the wheeler island. </OMG> Wheeler Island rail line and test platform on Google Maps How do they transport the missiles to the launch...

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IMVHO, the DRDO gentleman is musing aloud about possibility of extrapolating technology of PAD/AAD ballistic missile defence to BVR missile defence. With ABM technologies currently maturing, perhaps anti-BVR is next frontier. ... he said that yes the work is going on & then he suggested some thi...

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Thats DLRL-developed 'Sujav' EW system for communication monitoring and jamming. I am guessing here it is being used to jam cellular communication outside the stadium. Civilian version, I recall is used quite often with VVIP convoys. Saw the exact same vehicle in Bluru few days back near Sarjapur OR...

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Regarding the yellow/blue plot, I think it might be the other way, the yellow being AAd. The yellow line might be continuing, because the gimballed part might still be intact after the projectiles go out. Whereas the blue is all torn up after a certain time. The red might be the point where the com...

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I wonder, if I am right in reading that, yellow track is that of the 'enemy' and undulating blue track is that of the AAD (undulating track suggestive of terminal homing manuevers?). Red dot indicating AAD fragment carrying its transmitter and blue dot indicating 'enemy' transmitter (contained in a ...

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The engines that are eventually mated to the launch vehicles, are they ground-tested (fired) for part or whole of their mission durations or do they come right off the manufacturing-line (after mandatory QC checks) for integration?

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Attached is translation of the excellent take of JPN on 'Maoist Ideology' from video (in telugu) posted earlier by user 'Rony'. Most of the comments in brackets are mine. Do you need guns for health-care? Do you need guns for livelihood? It is fact that our system of governance is spoilt. There are ...

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IIRC, back in 2000, Andhra Pradesh minister Madhav Reddy was rumoured to have been assasinated by PWG using similar modus-operandi, when his vehicle got blown up on a newly constructed fly-over at Ghatkesar near Hyderabad. link And this one highlights the Maoists' 'far sightnesses' and resources ava...

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I was under impression for sometime that the rear wheel is just gonna stick out straight, but looking at the pics, the rear wheel has a pneumatic lever to pull it up, but I don't see any significant space on the tail to pull the rear wheel in. Is it just going to stick to the tail on bottom side an...

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IMO, Passive means combustion was not attempted in this flight and the scramjet engine did not provide any thrust to the flying object(sounding rocket). Perhaps they instrumented important areas of air-flow path (through the scramjet engine) to study key parameters like flow, pressure, temp. et cete...

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Couple of thumbnail sized images of the sounding rocket with attached scramjet combustion chamber (scaled down?) from the same source From ISRO's website: "Indian Space Research Organisation successfully conducted the flight testing of its new generation high performance sounding rocket today (...

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Someone got a lesson in chaste urdu, after addressing her as 'motorham'! Pity she didn't stick around to pick-up anymore pinglish!

Raja Bose wrote:^^^It was actually funny as she came in like a whirling dervish, told off some of the old BRF fogies and left them in a swirl of dirt

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IIRC, late Mr. Mahalingam was working as a trainer of Reactor Operators. ^^^ Any perspective on what is happening. It is obvious that someone is finishing off selected nuke scientists. Were these the ones that spoke against the nuke deal. This is worrisome Were they working in related departments or...

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Appreciate your efforts. Thanks!

jamwal wrote:Image you asked for here.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Dc2Wx4jR9F8/S ... MG2942.JPG

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In this scan , is the last image on right, of Nishant with tri-cycle landing gear? Is this first image in public domain showing the CTOL version in flight? Jamwal ji, if the image is a scan from a brochure, can you rescan it as/when you find time? Thanks in advance! Some more pictures: ... DRDO's Re...

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IIRC the video clip from Press Conference following successful Agni-3 trial, Dr. Saraswat's says something like... '... it is this one area we are ahead of the chinese...', and the context was ABM interceptors. Going by yardstick of mere number of tests of the BMD system, it was more than reasonable...

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Off-topic Alert: It is not my intention to sound pedagogic. Any institution in india is representative of our collective selves. But, why are some of us bent upon indulging in needless self-flagellation. Poster's intentions may be noble, but IMO the statement qouted below is insensitive and is an af...

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