Bharat Rakshak

The chinis are moving to sabotage whatever they can to degrade India's capabilities. Their first target : the J18 agreement. China blasts Indo-US civilian nuke deal This mere days after Hu's India visit where he's supposed to have quietly endorsed India's quest to have the NSG change its rules. What...

Here's one scenario that IMVHO merits consideration even though it has not yet been explicitly stated though has probably been implcitly accounted for (and rejected as unlikely to pass). What if Mush and buddies pretend nothing happened? What if Mush and buddies, so expert at blanket denials adopt a...

Anoop wrote:

kgoan wrote: BTW: Thinking about it, I think I tend to agree with TSJs point about the cruise missile aspect.

Kgoan, but has Pakistan shown the ability to mate nuclear warheads with cruise missiles? I think not.

No, but its principal, unprincipled patron has.

brijlal, just because you disagree with me doesn't mean you have to be purposefully blind. Or perhaps you just have very poor taste in women? Just look at em' http://www.misstibet.com/history/2006/event/contestants/ :( The winner is technically the least fugly. The miss Tibet contestants have alway...

My 2 questions:

Any chance of seeing ANY pictures in future?

How realistic is npon-BVR combat? I understand the theoretical value of knowing which bird does well in which dimension, but how much of it is practical?

One of the most controversial dramatic films produced in China during the cultural revolution, "Breaking" is about the struggle to ... all » Democratize education in the countryside. Made during Mao Tse Tung's infamous Cultural Revolution. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=23496919...

China tried to lure Aussie weapon inventor The Chinese military allegedly offered an Australian weapons inventor more than $134 million ($US100 million) to go to Beijing and work on one of the deadliest guns in the world, the Nine Network reports. But Australian and US military forces are said to b...

Thank God for Judiciary and Election commission for saving the republic from time to time. Left to the politicians and Babus, we would still be stuck with the colonial era Police act of 1880s. This is indeed a revolution. Lets see how it plays out. Results should start to become visible in a few ye...

Too good to be true? SC orders a cop clean-up Insulating the police from politicians, separation of law and order machinery from the investigative apparatus, fixed tenure for police officers starting right from the station house officer — these are some of the far-reaching directions given by the ...

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24609 China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday... Their job was to defend the government when negative comments appeared o...

Chinese Students Riot Over Diploma Changes Seems like China is pretty much a 3rd world country like India, despite the stiff upper lip and the lapdog media. The Zhengzhou riots appeared to reflect the massive pressure Chinese students face in an increasingly competitive job market. Many families go...

The original newsitem is in Chinese 9or taiwanese, if you will) and hence, am linking directly to the translation I found on another forum. China: 'Tank Man', the Tiananmen Hero...Alive in Taiwan(All Hail to Tank Man!) Yup, dassright. The steelballs guy in the pic, exhibit A in courage in modern tim...

Shiv, My bad, should've said "your scenario implies..." instead of "you're saying..." Here's why. A nuke going off is simply too HUGE an event for common janta not to get roused. Satell. photos, int'l media, the internet, rumours etc will ensure that GOI isn't anywhere near likel...

Shiv wrote: That is an easy example to follow and must be followed. No matter who or what the jihadis target it - we blame Islam. Islam and Muslims are at fault. The advantage in this attitude is that you don't even have to wait for an attack. The threat of a jihadi using a nuke is enough to reach t...

Has anyone read "The Fourth Protocol" by Fredrick Forsyth? It can answer some of the questions raised here. Yup. But instead of sophisticated suitcase nukes, the yanks here are probably scared of crudely done dirty bombs using radioack material somewhere on western (or G-d forbid) on the ...

As usual, the powers that be and great minds that advise them are silent about the (diarrohiac?) elephant in the living room.... What if paki nukes have to be defanged w/o paki army/govt cooperation? indeed against focussed paki hostility? Indian help would be useful and appreciated in that scenario...

C Raja Mohan reads between diplomatese lines and claims that MMS got a 'warmer' (hotter?) reception in DC than Hu is managing so far.

No Banquet for Hu

B Singh: yes I know we have niche specialties in nuclear, space and aerospace technologies, but we are completely absent in almost everything else. What dya expect for the amounts budgeted for S&T R&D? The US for example puts its money where its mouth is and spends bigtime on basic masters a...

From the Indian Express today

IAF bases on Google? Click, watch Pak and China’s

Good read.
Ensoi.

From the indian Express ‘Best news on AIDS: In South India, HIV down 35 per cent’ Prevention programs are working, apparently. While data from north India is still cause for worry, the Lancet study reports that prevalence of HIV-1 (the most common variant of the virus in India) prevalence fell i...

Sudhir wrote:How much you wanna bet that Google is a CIA run establishment, what a better way track information than being the most referenced portal on the internet.

The way Google has guboed to Beijing raises my alarm-meter even higher.

Unkil, warts and all is phir bhi preferable to chicommie.