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6 out of 19 ministers apparently are non-believers. I am not sure if they are atheist or agnostic. Interestingly none of them are from Communist parties. Pretty strange for a country where 93 percentage believe in god (RDN Article: Indians Get More Religious, 93 Percent Believe in God...

Six ministers in Team Manmohan are 'non-believers'! - National News ? News ? MSN India - News New Delhi: Six Cabinet ministers of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new team are 'non-believers'. These ministers 'solemnly affirmed' that they would bear true faith and allegiance to the...

In general, I agree that Indira Gandhi was blunt in most of her operations. I hate her for her emergency, nationalization, authoritarianism etc. etc. But Blue star was a mistake, not an attempt at being hateful. The same situation was repeated later in 1986-88 when the Army learned from past...

Not really true. Europe has existed and had problems with each other for 200 years . The first world war was pretty much a European one and the second was Europe + US +Japan. It is only in the last 50 years that Europe has learned to live comfortably amongst each other. Even in that case...

I think they were talking about strategic co-operation. No one can merge the countries back together anymore, the constitution, education levels, political culture etc. are very different now after 50 years. India and Pakistan used to co-operate strategically in cricket - it is called IPL :-)

J&K has a population of 77 lakh. Approximately 5 lakh would be in the required age range of 20-25 (if one assumes that the population is evenly distributed between ages of 0-77 ). Out of this 5 lakh 9,000 turned up for recruitment - which is approximately 1 in 50. Consider that Indian Armed...

Nope. Terrorists are those who would cut others throat for no reason. Cutting their own throat is only a civil offense in India (Rs 500 fine) - It may sent one to be roasted in Hell if successfully executed, though (in some religions).

You know who else that could be ? People from Xinjiang - they have the same hair type and circumcise late into adulthood. Circumcision - What Caused Many Cultures to Remove the foreskin? To say China is involved is a far fetched story though. More likely a mercenary from one of the...

India working with AQ and Taliban ? That's the first I've heard about it. As for Indian influence with groups in Pakistan --There were comments from Musharraf about Baluchistan issue - and the dossier he published had Indian officials attending a conference in Europe about Baluchistan...

DAWN.COM | World | Pakistan, India in ?rare anti-terror cooperation? NEW YORK: As the Pakistan army battles extremists inside the country, Pakistan and India have begun sharing intelligence on militants, with the prodding of Washington, the Wall Street Journal disclosed on Thursday. The...

Sri Lanka announced a large explosion in the area where LTTE heads were supposed to be. They are claiming that the chiefs committed suicide. No body has yet been found.

A good man too. But Newton is said to have utterly enjoyed destroying his reputation in the calculus controversies while at the same time actively working on more literal interpretations of the bible. Leibnitz died pretty much unattended, out-of-favour with Kings. Newton on the other hand became...

I agree that the names for which Pak armaments are named are pretty impressive. But wasn't Al-Khalid syrian? And Tipu Mysorean? My original question was whether this would work. But then I found that Bangladesh does the same to their ships. And the coolest (when it comes to happily adopting...

I don't think India should be naming anything after Hindu myths. I can't see how it will ever get balanced- 15% Muslim reservation in ship names? and 2% Christian names? The general theme at least in the Navy is to name after places/rivers. That at least is clearly non-controversial and...

I agree. I have been following history of finance pretty closely recently. I've read many of the source texts in Sanskrit and translations from Chinese/Arabic texts. And what I see is that Chinese invent something first, then totally ignore their invention (Branches of math, paper money etc.)...

Well the current state of physics it is more complicated. If you take the big bang theory to be true, then the rules of physics would imply that whatever happened before the big bang could not affect what happened after it. So a creator could not actively interfere with the laws of the world...

It was only a half serious comment. Most militaries use call-signs, so military wise there will be no confusion. The mess will start when newspapers start reporting - The headline would be "Pakistan acquires F16 PAK. In response India acquires PAK-FA (T-50). Worried Afghanistan is thinking of...

I once met a Syrian (not sure) who always said Alhamdulillah after sneezing. I know what the term means, but now in my mind the phrase is closely associated with sneezing.

Bijli ? Sounds like a cheerful girls name :-) Buraq on the other hand sounds like a growl (I think the "r' sound has something to do with it). Anyway is an aircraft a male or a female ? Ships used to be generally considered a "she" (sister ships, mother ship etc.) but are often named after...

That Sukanya does not have a particularly nice history. Not sure if the ship was named after the mythical character. Sukanya | Suite101.com I originally thought they were not, because Sukanya is not a famous name from Mahabharata. Sukanya also means good girl in Hindi/Sanskrit and many...