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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5404256.stm Tribal militants have shot dead three members of the Pakistani security forces in the troubled province of Balochistan, officials say. The officials said the soldiers were on their way to fetch water when their jeep came under attack, in a mountainou...

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Photo journal: Life in a tribal Balochi settlement New Kahan is raided by the police from time to time. After a bomb explosion in Quetta, they come here and arrest people they suspect of involvement. These people were rebels and active in the 1970s and the government, it appears, believes they are ...

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http://www.indianexpress.com/story/13450.html Heights of deception K. Subrahmanyam Posted online: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST [quote] It has taken seven years after the event for General Pervez Musharraf to come out with his version of the Kargil war. What an imaginative version! H...

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Indeed it is registered via proxydomain co. in AZ. I think your second guess sounds more plausibe, a psyops measure from CCP via some front co. in HK. The presence of some American and Brit names will lend it more credibility. The site itself says it draws info from official sources: Drawing on offi...

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Good idea. For starters the 'official' site has the basic info. Wikipedia has got some info as well. http://www.chinatoday.com/org/cpc/ Members of Standing Committee of Political Bureau: Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun, Luo Gan. Mem...

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The Hindu reviews parts of Gola's new book:
Musharraf and the truth about Kargil

An incomplete account of a "most embarrassing moment"

Musharraf unveils his Kashmir solution

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I guess 'Shadow' Chancellor in the UK means the finance guy in the Conservative Party. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2342637,00.html The future is Indian: so wake up, Whitehall George Osborne Each month five million new mobile-phone users sign up there. But Britain is missing out on the ...

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UK Conservative leader David Cameron is in India. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/09/04/a_passage_to_india.html He is blogging his tour as well! http://www.dcindia06.blogspot.com/ We in Britain should be especially interested in the huge changes going on in India. We share so many tie...

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Indian Air Force lacks planes

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China Bans 'Code' After Warning From Catholics Chinese authorities ordered theaters nationwide to stop showing "The Da Vinci Code" today after Chinese Catholics warned that the film could threaten social stability. But protests by China's official Catholic Patriotic Association and a smal...

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Toronto Star: Tourists flock to India for a little body work I am in the waiting room of the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research in New Delhi, one of the many world-class medical facilities all over India. I am here because I heard that medical tourism is starting to take off in India...

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http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/development/story/0,10801,109415,00.html Is Panini's rules on Sanskrit grammar a precursor to the Turing Machine? Proving the old adage that a good idea has many fathers, some scholars believe that one of the fathers of computing is Panini, an ancient S...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4718692.stm
Indian drug maker Dr Reddy's is buying German-based rival Betapharm for 480m euros ($572m; £328m).

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Jacques Chirac will be visiting India this weekend. This is a particularly difficult time due to the Mittal takeover of Arcelor (domestic political opposition) and l'affaire Clemenceau (they'll have to eat their hat and take her back if Supreme Court rules on Friday). I don't know if there will be a...

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SRL Ranbaxy launches bird flu test SRL Ranbaxy has launched a diagnostic test for bird flu that could be employed for mass-screening with near accurate results within a day. "Ranbaxy's RT-PCR Test, which is highly robust, has been developed indigenously. The fact that results can be reported w...

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Yahoo Photos of Defexpo

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http://specials.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/25rsld1.htm
Rediff features a batch of young lady officers undergoing training at the Air Defence College. Only the second batch of women to be inducted into the regiment, this is a slice of a day in their lives.

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From MinDef Singapore , looks like the RSAF birds have already landed. I suppose we can count on them for photos. So far nothing in Yahoo or Getty. Eight RSAF F-16 aircraft flew into Kalaikunda Air Force Station in Eastern India for the exercise. During the four-and-a-half hour journey from Singapor...

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The story on Indian medical tourism industry is now picked up by Ms. Gentleman of IHT. Atleast this one is gives a more balanced opinion. So to traceback: BMJ->BBC->AFP->IHT. As foreigners flock to India to find lower health-care costs and avoid long waiting times, the rapid growth of this medical t...

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That CSM article by Scott Baldauf has been syndicated in ABC, Chicago Sun Times and UPI link

That's some lifafa folks.

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Peace GJ and R! Indian pharmas themselves are fighting it out. Ranbaxy Laboratories is among the eight companies from across the world, which is in talks with Roche to outlicence the avian flu drug, Tamiflu. Roche is expected to finalise the names of the companies by November end. Roche may prescrib...

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It seems the Iranians are running a full page ad in today's New York Times typeset in a very small font

. I wonder if we can get more info on Xerox's unsolicited help.

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The same story picked up by Beeb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4447140.stm Don't know what is the purpose of this article. I know Apollo and others are big time into telemedicine et al. I've also seen one hospital train (forgot the name), where city docs come and perform surgeries as the train ...

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From the Stars and Stripes published by DoD: Cope India ’06: Fast-paced and full of firsts Many of the training scenarios task the F-16s to protect ground targets against advancing Indian aircraft — and vice versa. Each combat sortie is discussed and scored in combined post-flight briefings using a ...

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Mig-29
SU-30 formation
More pics

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E3 AWACS

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Was the tourist informed in advance? for eg. a simple board warning against nude bathing. They do that in Vatican: no shorts, no sleeveless, guards don't allow anyone who is immodestly dressed, whatever that means. Rural Rajasthan can come as a shock even for city-born desis, personal experience.

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Maybe it is something to do with having to sit on top of world's largest plutonium and unprocessed spent fuel and cannot build a bum.
Japan's plutonium stockpile tops 43 tons
I am hearing about Japan's fast breeder program for the first time. I know the French are also marginally interested in that.

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Economist gives a unfavorable opinion to the deal, it speaks up for the usual suspects NPAs, does an equal-equal with TSP with no mention of Xerox Khan/PRC proliferation, unfairly accuses the Agni program. The Economist: Nuclear confusion America also proposes to assist India's space programme. Noth...

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still a drop in the bucket pal!

assure you, the numbers will go down once I start writing my dissertation

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Follow-up:

"We will have much more Tamiflu available than if Roche produced it itself," said New York Senator Charles Schumer after talks with Roche.

The firms Teva, Barr, Mylan and Ranbaxy aim to start production within a month.

Roche to license bird flu drugs

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Roche says could allow others to produce Tamiflu

The company said in a statement it was willing to discuss all options to increase output of the treatment, including granting sub-licences to produce Tamiflu for emergency pandemic use to governments and other companies.

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Thanks for the clarification GJ.

I saw in local news that France has around 14 million doses of Tamiflu (population 60m) and it is one of the highest among Western nations. No wonder amidst the latest discovery of virus trace in farms in Turkey and Romania, Roche is increasing the production 8-fold.

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Even if legal issues are set aside, what about clinical trials? won't it take a while.

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Cipla is taking a calculated risk I hope. Either they'll get caught in legal proceedings in Western courts or their governments might simply make an exception and order sh!tloads of this.
Indian firm plans to make generic Tamiflu

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Singh-Chirac Joint Statement

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Chirac confirms India's purchase of 6 Scorpene submarines, 43 Airbus planes

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Watch out this space.
PM France Visit: Info from French President's website

PM interview to Le Figaro (both in French)

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IHT: A push for closer EU-India ties The European Union and India agreed Wednesday to promote business ties and expand cooperation in science and technology, including research on civilian nuclear energy. The two sides also agreed to work together to find clean energy sources, and the EU pledged to...

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Things might afterall change in EUstan. This son of Hungarian immigrants, never makes his Presidential ambitions a secret, a rare pro-American and pro-free trade (in most cases) is someone to watch out for.
France’s heir apparent plots EU revolution

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