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I am just reporting what is available open source from credible sources. The Hindu/Frontline has the best reportage on govt science/technology in India. Now if you start questioning it then it becomes a problem.

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You are asking for classified information. If you are writing or editing wiki on missiles you should be knowing that the earlier version of A3 was not very efficient. Payload information or vehicle size was not available IIRC.

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It just means the missile is ready. Same thing happened with K15.

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I don't have time to find it for you. But from what I recall the article was about Tesse Thomas and one of the things mentioned was how she helped reduce the weight of A3 I believe to 22 tonnes without impacting range or payload. No further details was given or at least I cannot recall. I also remem...

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You should find it in their archives if it is available. It has been a few years.

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He along with Nehru was also one of the initiators of the mistrust and growing distance between India and the US that ultimately led to the US becoming one of the benefactors of Pakistan and India becoming a Soviet ally.

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A3 missile weight was much reduced with new stuff. Read the Hindu/Frontline article on Tesse Thomas. I have to fundamentally disagree on the issue of longer ranged missile. A missile with range greater than 6000 kms or even 8000 kms will have only one target and that is the west. I see no benefit in...

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Range is 3500-5000 kms. Distance from Vizag to Beijing is about 4000 kms. BOB is going to be the bastion and BOB itself is 1600 km in width. We are not going more than 6000 kms with either ICBMs or SLBMs unless there is an abrupt change in relations with the West.

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Check google. K4 is philosophically the same as the A3 (similar range and payload) and covers all the major Chinese cities when fired from the Bay of Bengal including near the Indian coast. K5 is from where MIRV starts officially and K6 is an ICBM-class SLBM. K4 and K5 are China-specific. K6 is for ...

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The govt should fund Indian 5G on a war footing as it has geostrategic consequences.

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K4 was never reported to be MIRV AFAIK. If this is MIRV either the payload has been modified or this is a different missile being tested under K4. The status of K4 itself is not clear from open source. Sometimes it has been launched from Arihant sometimes it is under testing. It is a very classified...

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K4 range is 3500-5000 kms. Indian missiles state the lower end of the range. It is China-specific.

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It is because per capita income is very low around 2000 dollars i.e. not many people with taxable income. As the economy grows the PCI also grows and more people enter the taxable bracket. As disposable income increase more consumption i.e. more indirect taxes. So the proportion of tax to GDP is goi...

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You have come late to the party. It is much more than 15-20. That is what BSF is aware of. Most border crossings are secret. Local media and Bdeshi media reporting 100s crossing everyday.

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To elucidate on one of Suraj's points. I think Indian cities look so insufferable because governance is centralized in the hands of the state govt with the city administration being a mere spectator or a municipality doing some cleaning stuff and road tarring or power line fixing work. If we can str...

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Uttam, minor nitpick. Even if we had low interest rates banks wouldn't lend much given the amount of NPAs they had. The other thing we don't appreciate is that the govt is managing to return banks to heath with much less recapitalization. That is one more reason why it took more time. Now with IBSC ...

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The next trouble for Congress is going to come from MP and it may come from Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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I am not sure why India should be heading towards stagflation. As demand is weak it means supply is greater than demand and there should be no reason for high inflation. It is going to be a recovery. How fast is the question.

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Demo and GST has killed the informal black money economy. This black money was being used to fund consumption. So a slump in demand is to be expected. Now the job of the govt is to ensure that the formal cleaner economy takes up the space and generates demand. How fast will depend on how fast the go...

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I have no problem with simplification of taxation as long as it is rational e.g. they can bunch up all the exemptions into a standard deduction. Like what they do with the 1.5 lakh investment limit. But flat tax rates, doing away with exemptions, etc are stupid ideas which is going to lead to suicid...

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It means new hiring in the IT/ITES sector and therefore expansion is happening or will happen.

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Whoever is advising Nirmala Sitharaman on the IT tax front is doing a bad job and will ruin this govt IMO. Why should people with different income pay the same flat tax rate? Only the tax brackets should change and the exemption limits and taxes on incentives/investments should change. Going for a f...

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That is only food inflation. Core inflation is less than 4%. You can't fight food inflation with interest rates. Food inflation maybe due to season, middlemen or rising input costs of farmers. If it is the latter remember food inflation is good for farmers but bad for buyers specially in cities wher...

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Deepika Padukone may have made a stupid move and this may not be her personal opinion as she has appeared in films like BajiRao and Padmavaat. I don't know the antecedents of the film Chhapaak's producer but the director is Meghna Gulzar, daughter of Gulzar who is known for being a leftist. May be t...

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Last Bodo militant group has surrendered.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... TOIDesktop

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Avenue supermart Q3 profit.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ma ... 202393.cms

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D-mart Q3 profit.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/busin ... 07471.html

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Should there be an Indian military service? Instead of pulling in people from other services. They would have core competency. Can be recruited similar to IAS, IFS, etc.

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Q3 results of companies have started coming out.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ma ... 188430.cms

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More on the palm oil story. It is complex.

https://swarajyamag.com/business/india- ... ole-reason

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hope they have made provisions for more palm oil imports from Indonesia to prevent a price rise.

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150 private trains. Hope they make the rolling stock mandatory make in India.

https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/expl ... 2-clusters

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Shortfall in govt infrastructure spending can be compensated by getting the private sector more involved.

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About 33% of Delhi voters are lower class or slum dwellers. Except for Lutyens Delhi and some middle class areas Delhi is full of slums and ghettos or what they call unauthorized colonies. Outside NCT Delhi it looks like capital of some failed Soviet states.

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Kejriwal to sweep Delhi election - Opinion poll.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 125859.cms

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Kejriwal has done a few things in Delhi. Some freebies for the lower class and slum dwellers. Some activity on govt education and health. Voting in parliament has been carefully calibrated to please both sides a little bit. Total silence on RJB. Voted for J&K reorg but against TTT and CAA. So ha...

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December services PMI at 53.3. New business growth at 38 month high.

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Removal of the Islamic Iranian regime will practically denude the Shia angle of Islamists as Iran is the god-father of Shia Islamists. From long watching of Iranian chatter on various forums it is likely that like the Kurds the Iranians are tired of Islamism. A collapse of this Iranian regime will h...

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You guys have missed the new kid on the block. WB economy has started moving again. 2018-2019 growth rates was highest in India among major states at 12.6%. This year GST collection up 18% which means another year of high growth.

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