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Picklu

^^ Or local joint dev being killed now for a future full import angle with a "urgent need" for heat seeker?

Just cynical moi; burnt too many times by the shooting down of improved version of marut, follow on for Deepak etc and finally getting full import based replacement of insas.

Picklu

With Astra mk1 and mk2 in the work, do we need maitri other than the imaging seeker technology?

Picklu

Picklu saar, why not take pictures and mail them to railway minister or put them on facebook? Maybe they need to be made aware and issues highlighted in social media, forcing them to get their act together in the process. Saik, actually my observation tells me that the single most important factor ...

Picklu

Saik, actually my observation tells me that the single most important factor to a clean toilet is the need to go waterless or minimum water. It is the "water water everywhere" that causes the typical dirty unhygienic appearance in toilets of sulabh souchalaya genre. and IR toilets, be in t...

Picklu

For hsr10k freedom run should be just water n bananas. Having gone to the organisation's office for paying in cash, I do not expect any more. This run is just to make myself familiar with the organised running events before wipro run somewhere close by home. And today's attempt was to familiarise m...

Picklu

Recently went from Bangalore to Ernakulam and back via 3AC and 2AC respectively as wanted the brat to have a taste of IR. Will never make that mistake again. The lavatories are just impossible. Unless waterless bathrooms like airlines are implemented, no amount of curtain and light fixture improveme...

Picklu

OK, sure. Thanku Singhaji.

Picklu

Me too road warrior todin .. finished 10k first time on the road ... timing is unmentionably sharam sharam but better adjust to sharam sharam now than discover the same on the actual runday on 15th. Tried the water bottle carrier for the first time today; never required to use the same on the treadm...

Picklu

Saw the poster of HSR 10K freedom run on 15th Aug ad in the bda complex and registered for the same on a whim.

Not sure if I will finish a second before 100 minute mark but at least will have some race experience before the spirit of wipro run in Sep. Let's see how the next 2 weeks go.

Picklu

What is KTM?

Registered today for my first 10km on 21 sep, spirit of wipro bangalore run.

Now I have to keep the mind occupied somehow to prevent it from downhill skiing on regular practice.

Picklu

Jet Li donning both fin min and def min is no co-incidence. Neither it will be when VKS or some such from services background is slowly glided into def min role. Have faith in NaMoji. The first was to reduce import of anything other than TINA. The second is necessary to ensure TINA percentage gets r...

Picklu

Good many of back bench crowd actually had pretty good expertise in forging their dad's (and dad's of their friends) signatures for unit test score counter signatures. It must be tough for these kind of kids nowadays when their parents are handed over the score sheets in person. I can still forge m...

Picklu

Supratik wrote:Disappointed with JNNURM being discontinued. One of the few good projects of UPA. Otherwise decent budget. Also there is some confusion whether fiscal deficit is 4.1% (set by PC) or 4.5% of GDP.

The name killed it. Expect it to be launched with a new name next year.

Picklu

IAF capex for aircraft and aero engine has been cut by 40% from last years budget, a reduction of 12.5k crore. I do not see Rafale or Apache this year.

Picklu

The breakdown of the 2014-15 Capital Budget of the defence forces. The Air Force's capital outlay for acquiring Aircraft and Aero engines has been slashed by over 40% from Rs 28,500 crore to Rs 16,000 crore! :shock: No chance of signing the MRCA contract with this kind of an allocation. Ajai Shukla...

Picklu

Eh, the big change in defense is going to come from Indian industry slowly moving in. DRDO budget raise is ok, especially for strategic missile development, disruptive tech, etc. but on the whole nothing is going to beat a competitive university system and the private sector working together. India...

Picklu

Ramanaji, I wrote all the good words about this budget and all you saw is pessimism :roll: :(( :eek: :oops: :cry: And btw, since I am one of those millions who made that choice, I do not think any caution is necessary. So, with all due respect, you might want to redirect the X-hair somewhere else, f...

Picklu

The sharp focus on infrastructure improvement makes this one of the best budgets in the last few years. Of course the base was low, anything not having a "right to blah blah blah" would have made it a good one. :P But the infra improvement makes it bonus. Particular interest is the low vis...

Picklu

In defence of the Rail Minister I would say he shouldn't be judged by the first budget as shouldn't FM later today. Amit, not judging the minister or PM or Govt or BJP, judging THIS (2014-15) budget - an important distinction. I am sure better budgets will come later once NaMoji is more in control....

Picklu

^^ ju mean right and left hand of Jet Li.

Picklu

Thread derail on the Indian Railways thread. Oh! The humanity..... :mrgreen: Since I do not enjoy having a rap sheet 3 mile long, I will be over and out even though I did not indulge in any personal attack or innuendo or out of topic discussion unlike the other poster is so eager to do without prov...

Picklu

Meanwhile I stongly suggest that you look definition of words like, vision, implementation, details etc. And once you are done, maybe you can look up the basics of any long term infra dev project to understand the basics of what is being talked about. Don't need to. Have given the example of Golden...

Picklu

Why dont we start with your attack on the NaMo govts plans to kick out the illegal Bangladeshi scum and trying to make it sound it was an attack on all Bengalis ? Again, there was no attack on the NaMo govt but practical problems with possible solution was pointed out. No where NaMoji or BJP was at...

Picklu

Sanku wrote: Picklu ji, You have held the criticism of BJP and NaMo non stop for quite some time. Why pretend this has anything to with the budget ?

Proof? Attack the postor with Libel and Slander, eh?

Picklu

What is difficult to understand is your assertion that if X talks about safety and Y talks about safety X == Y. And this assertion based on yet another random statement of your own. There is no such random statement or assertion. Either you communicate the plan why the outcome from Y will be differ...

Picklu

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/contract-for-biharbengal-dedicated-freight-corridor-must-be-awarded-this-year/article4949187.ece From this * This year >> dedicated freight corridor along the 534 km stretch from Son Nagar in Bihar to the terminal point at Dankuni near Kolkata * part ...

Picklu

Just over 1300 units PM @ my dads house. But he has 5 people living with him. BTW for reference, without my Electric car 980 units average PM in USA. All A/C & Electric range & 2 electric space heaters. This was one of my recent odd discoveries, that modernized homes in India are consuming ...

Picklu

^^ Thank you.

Picklu

Supratik wrote:I believe the LA has progressed well in WB inspite of the hysterical lady.

Any open source news item corroborating the same in case of WB? Genuinely want to know as I have not read anything in english media or ABP/EiSamay.

Picklu

the difference will be on execution and that we will have to wait and see. Till date, every bit of superior execution had a plan that was communicated well in advance as a vision. For example, 24x7 electricity was promised and to achieve that distribution lines were duplicated for different sector....

Picklu

@Supratik Has they even declared Kolkata-Chennai and Chennai-Mumbai corridor? I would call it the real diamond quad then. Also, I am not sure that LA is complete. It was the LA issue which kept the original DFC by Laloo out of Kolkata. I haven't heard anything about that being resolved. I just wish ...

Picklu

Sanku, No, not " they are just talking about stuff " but " they are just talking about same old stuff that every past rail minister talked about but did not really work " and that is called lack of vision. What is so difficult to understand? I see that you comfortably ignored the...

Picklu

IF IJT goes back to clean slate, ARDC needs a thorough look see. Enough is enough

Picklu

Karan , As I had suspected this was without a seeker ..... Combined with inertial navigation system (INS), a G3OM receiver could provide very high accuracies even without a seeker. Even though it can, not sure if that was actually the case or not as it does not explicitly said so. The replacement o...

Picklu

So, if the main plank of HSR goes away, what remains in this budget? Usual - safety, PPP, cleanliness, station upgrade etc etc. Same has been talked about lot in the past and nothing happened. What the share market and the shrewd businessmen are seeing is that the main economic viability part of IR ...

Picklu

I am not very high on HSR as I feel the existing system should get priority to develop to international std. However, if it can be done with minimum public finances I don't see any problem. HSR is a 10 years sustained agenda on economic front without going into other issues even including FDI vendo...

Picklu

kvraghav wrote:Piklu, you know about profit booking? which usually follows a rally

Single largest intra day fall in last 10 months immediately after rail budget "on profit booking"?

And the market is in down today as well. Quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, looks like a duck .............

Picklu

People posting in Burkha forum on Gov policy thread about share market dictating the budget. Absolutely not so. From all angle of analysis, this rail budget appears a mediocre one and the points explained in so many posts above. Share market is merely coming up to the same conclusion and reacting ac...

Picklu

^^^ Right arm. Easier to flaunt

Got it in US before R2I.

Picklu

The price increment due to fuel price hike is nothing new in this budget. In the last price hike of 14%, the original hike was 10% and the fuel price hike component was 4%. It was instituted during UPA regime itself. That, it was hold up for so long, shows that it can be subverted for political reas...

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