Bharat Rakshak

OTAN = Organisation du Traite de l'Atlantique Nord. Many French qualifying adjectives come after the noun - 'l'annee prochaine' literally translates as 'Year Next' - not some weird mirror logic. As in any other language there are exceptional cases to this.

rsingh: The Tata article is posted here

That article mentions about France's exceptionel net population increase. I think that this might be partly due to the higher percentage of immigrants of North African origin (around 6 million). We have no way of knowing since France's republican values strictly bans any race-related statistics. The...

Nice partner swapping (oops) of Il-78s with Mirage 2k and Su-27 with C-135.

L'armee de l'air site has been updated too! Some the above photos in the official link. They engaged in mutual air defense exercises of increasing difficulty + mid-aur refuelling with the bigbirds.

French article on the Indo-French Exercise One line caught my eye (my translation): For the Indians, it is an issue of showing that they can from now on play in the courts of great military powers. "Very few countries are capable of deploying their fighters so far from their home bases", ...

France fails to 'reap benefits' of offshoring However, MGI concluded the French economy gained only 86 cents from every €1 invested by French companies in offshoring centres. This was because French companies invested more heavily in North Africa and eastern Europe, where the cost savings were less...

Thanks shivji. Regarding the organization, it was well actually well-done. There were shuttle buses to/fro Le Bourget to the latest Metro and RER (suburban train) every 10 minutes. But there were much more people than expected - 500K instead of the expected 300K. The French media nicely played lifaf...

x-posted: WSJ Europe reports EU restrictions on Indian textile exports. (No access without subscription). Excerpts: EU textile makers are seeking to curb India's textile exports, following China's agreement to slow some textile exports to Europe. This initiative is based on a mere 10% increase in In...

Bonjour! My humble contribution: some of it is similar to rsingh's, plus some flying photos (with my amateur camera and an even more amateur photographer). Man, it was tough to take pics of these birds! And I second the opinion of rsingh, public transport was totally blocked, there must have been 10...

Raju: From the Official Bio:
Second Advisor to the Ambassador at New Delhi 89-90. First advisor during 90-92. Being a strong 'Gaullist', he is the man withwhom we should play the multilateral card.

Related story on IE.

The 'Hindu' faultline for EU's constitution Typical hair-brained analysis from TOI with no author name. I did follow the campagin in France and India's name got pulled only a few times by some far-right politicians. Otherwise among mainstream opinion, the Turks, the 'Polish Plumber' and the Chinese...

Saudis want to limit nuclear inspections In other words, once a state has signed the protocol it is assured that U.N. inspectors will have virtually relinquished their authority to uncover secret activities, a diplomat said. "Once you sign the small quantities protocol, you're off the hook,&qu...

I am neither going to link civil aircraft purchases with military ones nor take sides wrt Airbus/Boeing. AFAIK, the 380 is really suited for a hub-and-spoke model. That's why you see airlines with large hubs (Emirates, SIA and some EU airlines) want to benefit from this. Do you think India can serve...

Katare wrote:One is a neo conservative nationalist and other is a neo liberal leftist organization. What do you expect a tango

IMHO, BR and BRfiets would be better off by staying away from these activists

Have a look at the media,psyops thread for relevant posts.

Why can't he call a spade a spade? What neighbourhood BS? I suppose it may be Bhutan which is proliferating.

Clandestine nuclear proliferation in neighbourhood: Natwar Singh

Cross-posted to the new patents thread.

Kargil war — Indian Army admits making blunders


Got this from Daily Times by I. Gilani, he claims it is a scoop from the latest Outlook magazine. Can the BR-experts throw some lights on this?

Update: Here is the actual Outlook article. Gives a pretty damning report.