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Rahul M wrote:suparco is not mentioned !!

Pigs in space is an interesting thought.

Rahul M wrote:

The Indian government’s decision to go for a two-seater fighter was to keep each other company at the time radio silence is on.

best damned reason for the WSO I ever heard !!!

Another PGM dropped by DDM.

Vijender stuns Olympic champion Artayev
India's Vijender Singh stunned the boxing fraternity by comprehensively defeating Olympic gold medallist Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals of the AIBA President's Cup boxing tournament in Taipei on Tuesday.

West Bengal: MIG-21 catches fire while landing, pilot safe
A MIG-21 aircraft caught fire while landing at the Bagdogra airport in Darjeeling district on Friday morning, but the pilot was safe.

Wow...the more I read Rediff, the more I am convinced that they have an agenda - to say the least. The agony of being a migrant in Jaipur A week after nine bombs killed 66 people in Jaipur, a team of Jaipur police is still verifying the antecedents of the people living at the Bagrana transit camp, a...

Past Problems Threaten Future Russian-Indian Arms Deals http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=2141 Even so, Russian analysts fear that problems with past arms deals will impede Russia's ability to win a $12 billion contract to supply 126 new "fifth-generation" fighter planes ...

MI5 linked to Max Mosley sex scandal

An MI5 officer has been forced to resign after admitting that his wife was a prostitute who took part in a notorious “Nazi-style orgyâ€

Raju wrote:You have a problem with quotes ? Don't post such irritating argumentative nonsense.

I have a problem with people peddling EJ propaganda, even if inadvertently.

Raju wrote:I don't deal in proofs, what is written in bible is what is quoted.

So if you have no proof that a certain entity existed, yet quote 'proof' of his descendants, that's not such a good situation to be in, is it?

Is there any proof whatsoever of the existence of Ishmael, or Jacob or whatever?

Let BR not be a forum to repeat EJ propaganda.

The Bible says nothing about Muslims (or Darth Vader, or George Bush, or Stewie Griffin). By the way, FYI, there are plenty of Christian, Jewish and Druid Arabs too.

Folks, would really appreciate if you post links pertaining to these reports/events.

Photographer Ashok Sodhi, who was hit during a gunbattle between Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir, is shifted to a hospital in Jammu, India, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Sodhi who was covering the battle for the local English newspaper, The Daily Excelsior, later ...

Seems like BA took beef off domestic flights. Price could have been the reason, though they ascribe it to 'religious concerns'. British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus Price could have been the only reason. I don't know of any Hindu groups which might have lobbied to have ...

Has anyone noticed the number of desi reporters on Bloomberg?
I counted about 4 of them, and remember the names of atleast 2. Maithreyi Seetharaman, and the other called Naga ( ).

Ananth wrote:

Prasant wrote: OMG ! One of the guys in the pic is a schoolmate of mine !

Since you have already exclaimed, it opens the doors for questions by others. Was he the tall guy standing behind? No need to give his/her name.

Yes the tall guy.

Way to go! ^ Those are awesome pictures. My favorite is actually this: http://bp1.blogger.com/_o_no4M2xEPY/SCGyQinctqI/AAAAAAAAB8o/pCnn3ZbKfIs/s1600-h/AGNI3+GROUP-773935.JPG Nothing fancy-shmancy, no jackboots no nothing, just a bunch of paunchy guys and a super cool lady with humilty and grit etch...

Can we use that analogy here, the Western countries can withstand the emerging countries growth and continue growing, but there will be one point in time when suddenly they would have to adjust to new times? Any thoughts? Swamy G, I can see that happening right now. Perhaps it helps that I am a 'fu...

An Indian company, TATA takes over Jaguar & Land Rover http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3621873.ece People should read the comments attached below the article - very illuminating about the khujlee happening to the 'commoners'.. I liked this one: All the racist ...

Yeah but what if one is SDRE, is it not offensive? I am an SDRE, and it is not offensive to me, because I am like this onlee. :) We have all seen in our lifetime how India's classification changed from India==Pakistan==3rd World Hellhole to India==Economic Giant==Superpower in Waitingl. One thing t...

Middle East and Asia lose internet access after cable fails Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged. A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has dramatically reduced access in countries including ...

It can not be forgotten that a majority of Muslims in the provinces that remained in India supported Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Valabbahi Patel and Maulana Azad in their opposition to the partitioning of India. Ah, this is an oft-quoted lie. Maulana Azad didn't reject the two-nation theory b...

X-Posted The mess in Belgium today is something like in Rawanda of 90s minus the genocide . And it's not something that's highlighted these days by West for all their chest-beating about strifes/poverty worldwide. For about 5 months there's been no govt in Belgium. There's a huge internal strife be...

From the same link : Meanwhile, the "India campaign" rolls on with even Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi being roped in. Lockheed martin executives have dug up a forgotten piece of history to emphasize the ties between the two countries. Fourty-five years ago, during the Chinese aggressi...

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html Throughout the Holocaust, Pius XII was consistently besieged with pleas for help on behalf of the Jews. In the spring of 1940, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Isaac Herzog, asked the papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Luigi Maglione t...

How DRDO failed India's military http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jan/15guest.htm The difference between India's failure against Pakistan's success in their respective missile programmes is based on the purist mindset of the Defence Research and Development Organisation to develop indigenously all c...