Bharat Rakshak

I meant to say start with the small and manageable items first. Develop customer confidence and then move upwards. Chetak Ji This was how DRDO was working, when periodic reviews indicated that DRDO was spreading itself too thin and a political decision was taken for DRDO to concentrate on strategic...

Lets talk basics first. Import or urgently produce good stuff locally like Helmets, BPJs, Cold weather gear, not only for siachen, Sufficient night vision stuff, Thermal imaging gear, communication gear, Better assault weapons and sidearms, APCs. The pakis produce H&K MP5s locally, we have shit...

The armed forces use antiquated equipment and suffer high casualties because almost everything they need to do their jobs, the DRDO says don't import we will develop and give by today evening evening itself. Casualties are regrettable, but which imported weapon system would let the Indian armed for...

The game that Pakistan and Unkil are playing with regards to the whole GOAT effort can be explained in very simple terms. 1) Unkil wants to get rid of AlQaeda 'Global Jihad is us' type Islamists. 2) Pakistan Army wants to retain any Afghan govt. under its thumb and to keep alive an option of Ghazwa-...

Geelani lives in India, not abroad. As such, he is under the thumb of Indian security agencies. The fact that he still breathes (and lives a life of a certain level of comfort) means that the Indian state perceives that his pathetic life serves some useful purpose. He could be tried under any number...

As far as these comical House of the Thackery is concerned, they have run out of steam and have been proved that Mumbai was saved by a large posse of non Maharastrians, along with Mumbai folks too, and that Mumbai was not a non Indian soil ruled by the Thackerays. Where were the Thackerays when Mum...

http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/jan/09mumterror-ombles-daughter-wants-kasab-to-be-hanged-at-gateway.htm Hang Kasab at Gateway, says brave cop Omble's daughter Ajmal Amir Kasab [Images], the lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai [Images] carnage, should be hanged at the Gateway of India [Images] to...

I am not sure if this has been posted already. Its a gripping account of how a local Shiv Sena Shakha Pramukh helped with the NSG operations. It also comes through very clearly how the Nariman house locality was completely left to its own devices by the Mumbai Police. http://specials.rediff.com/news...

Foreign nationals at the Taj were particular targets of barbaric terrorists who first forced some of the guests to strip, then killed them {sorry, but I am going to temporarily delete that inline image. People who want to gawk can do so at the news link, but those images are of humans, not Pakis, s...

Foreign nationals at the Taj were particular targets of barbaric terrorists who first forced some of the guests to strip, then killed them {sorry, but I am going to temporarily delete that inline image. People who want to gawk can do so at the news link, but those images are of humans, not Pakis, so...

So what is CBU-105? And how does fast tracking help now. I think it will be on slow track. One doesnt go shopping for weapons and put war on hold. You fight with what you got. havent heard of more asinine proposal. Its not like a standard pataka you get and throw. Ramana CBU-105 is not just a clust...

X-posted... A lot of food for thought, especially since there is talk about POTA etc. http://suchetadalal.com/blog/?p=30 I am posting a message from Ashish Gupta, sent to me by a top senior revenue service officer. It has already been forwarded to a few hundred people, so I assume there is nothing ...

Here is an account of a guy who was attacked by a terrorist in Cama hospital. http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/15sld3-the-man-who-fought-back.htm In his own words:~ " Suddenly, at the top of the stairs, in the corridor, I encountered a fair man. He was no older than 30, and was wearing ...

Video of a firefighters account of the Rescue operations at the Taj hotel. http://ishare.rediff.com/filevideo-Sanjay-Manjrekar-id-521718.php Towards the end he says, (paraphrasing) "I blame the media for spreading rumors, reporting first and checking facts later. After the operation was over I ...

Hi http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Cop-surfs-net-for-bulletproof-jackets/392510/ I came across this link in the Indian Express, poor Mumbai Police cops are looking for bullet proof jackets online. Can we collect some chanda to buy our police departments some jackets that will protect against...

Friends, We've all seen the frustration of posters with the loss of innocent life and the lack of focussed response or retribution for these senseless attacks. The lack of retribution for these cowardly attacks has emboldened the attackers and spawned a generation of new terrorists (viz SIMI, IM et...