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by Vipul
24 Mar 2007 06:44
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
Replies: 288
Views: 192752

BHEL mulls defence sector foray. India’s largest power and transmission equipment manufacturer, state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), is planning to produce defence equipment, including weapons. It is likely to manufacture all types of guns, including field guns, air defence guns, and mort...
by Vipul
22 Mar 2007 22:39
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Power Sector
Replies: 1712
Views: 490417

India requires a further 100GW of power. The Indian government hopes to grow the country's economy at 8 to 10 per cent annually up to 2031, which means it will need to produce five to seven times more electricity than today. This requires a further 100GW of power, calling for investments of around ...
by Vipul
09 Mar 2007 20:47
Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part VII
Replies: 343
Views: 269339

What? a Gujju in the armed services!!!!: :-? :shock: :eek:
Heard the joke about a Gujju making a settlement with the enemy instead of fighting? :wink:
No offense meant to the Gujratis here on the forum, i myself am one. :)
by Vipul
04 Mar 2007 21:50
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Power Sector
Replies: 1712
Views: 490417

To solidify their power base the Maratha politicians have set-up Sugar Coperatives and have mismanaged them into massive losses.These continue to guzzle funds which the State Govt pumps-in from time to time just to keep them going to protect the local farmers interest.
by Vipul
04 Mar 2007 18:09
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Power Sector
Replies: 1712
Views: 490417

Mumbai Suburbs from Bhandup onwards have Load Shedding from 6 to 8 hours :evil: .I personally know a guy who took a decision against relocation just on account of the Power situation.He did not want to spend his entire savings just to buy a small house in new buidings being built-up with Gen-Set bas...
by Vipul
01 Mar 2007 00:48
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
Replies: 523
Views: 157000

Buck up, else mumbai will lose out to Dubai. MUMBAI: It’s a race against time for Mumbai. Any further delay will result in the nation’s financial capital losing out to Dubai in the race to become an International Finance Centre (IFC), warned city planners. They presented a detailed roadmap to t...
by Vipul
28 Feb 2007 20:14
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Jagan commended by CAS
Replies: 85
Views: 83990

Congrats Jagan.
by Vipul
18 Feb 2007 05:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Roads Thread
Replies: 3349
Views: 749248

A new road to Srinagar: No winter shut-downs, 60 km less, four lanes. NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 17:Nearly five decades after the Jawahar Tunnel was built to bring road connectivity to Srinagar, the government has given its go-ahead for a Rs 6,600( :shock: )-crore project to build another two-lane all-wea...
by Vipul
18 Feb 2007 03:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Contribution to Science & Technology
Replies: 855
Views: 342269

After Vinod Dham, its another Indian Powering Intel. Mumbai boy chips in to power Intel. In the next five to 10 years, when your desktop PC, your laptop or your mobile devices will turn into supercomputing workstations, you will have Mumbai-born tech whiz Nitin Borkar and his Intel teams at Oregon,...
by Vipul
17 Feb 2007 22:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1784
Views: 403333

Old habits die hard (EU reeks of the Colonial mentality).
Its already asking us to "adhere" to NPT and CTBT.
by Vipul
17 Feb 2007 21:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1784
Views: 403333

EU to give 470 mn euros for India's education, healthcare New Delhi, Feb. 16 (PTI): The European Union (EU) today hoped to launch talks on comprehensive trade and investment agreement with India by May as it announced a grant of 470 million Euros (Rs 2585 crores) to assist in education and healthca...
by Vipul
16 Feb 2007 21:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Roads Thread
Replies: 3349
Views: 749248

Indian road work slips into high gear. Indian road work slips into high gear By Raja M MUMBAI - Private companies have this year energetically restarted India's crucial but sluggish highways development program, flooding eight build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects of the NHAI (National Highways Aut...
by Vipul
15 Feb 2007 21:45
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Info Thread
Replies: 347
Views: 171351

I am sure if someone took the effort, then the connection between the Arms-dealsers, Corrupt babus and Selfstyled Defence Jurnos would come out. Isnt it too mush of a co-incidence to have a host of Jurnos trashing the indigenous efforts in media?This sort of drivel is at its peak when lobbying is on...
by Vipul
07 Feb 2007 10:17
Forum: Military Expositions Archive
Topic: Aero India 2007 - Photo Thread
Replies: 345
Views: 165202

by Vipul
12 Jan 2007 00:27
Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part VI
Replies: 323
Views: 192727

Request to the posters, please stop "suggesting" scenarios to Shankar. :) At first I thought not reply on that lame post and just ignore it. But, later, I took it as my duty as member of BRF to make yourself clear and bring you out of ignorance. Someone bothering to suggest someone just t...
by Vipul
10 Jan 2007 19:42
Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part VI
Replies: 323
Views: 192727

Request to the posters, please stop "suggesting" scenarios to Shankar.
by Vipul
22 Dec 2006 03:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indian Foreign Policy
Replies: 2499
Views: 532017

Secret talks to blur LoC make headway. Come on, is the Indian Leadership so dense? Whats going to stop the Jehadi Pig-lets from spreading out to the other parts of India, once they cross the LOC? Blaming MMS alone is pointless.Its evident as per the news-report, that Alzheimer's and Parkinson has s...
by Vipul
21 Dec 2006 03:03
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Contribution to Science & Technology
Replies: 855
Views: 342269

India carves a niche in deep sea mining with new technology NEW DELHI: Exploring minerals, buried deep in the ocean, is one of the most daunting tasks for scientists around the globe. And making a major breakthrough, Indian scientists have taken deep sea mining technologies to a new level, said the...
by Vipul
10 Oct 2006 20:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Siachen News & Discussion
Replies: 3050
Views: 500886

ManojM wrote:
Has our entire MEA gone bonkers? There's a limit to appeasing the pukes. The agreement signed by the pukes wont be worth the paper written on. The only iron clad way is to link it to the IWT. MEA CULPA.
Screw the country, i want the Nobel Peace Prize- MMS.