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And what will that gain Pakistan ?

This test was not for the full missile (which had also been test fired earlier). It was for the "Dual mode guidance". The article does not say what are the dual modes ? Inertial/Passive + Active Radar ? or Infrared + Radar ?

Same story ? http://www.defence.pk/forums/strategic-geopolitical-issues/26584-bangladesh-urges-pakistan-apology-1971-crimes.html#post376355

An article with pictures. 1st China jumbo jet to take off in 8 years -- china.org.cn A low wing high tail design. I wonder why they went with a low wing ? A high wing would make it more dynamically stable and better able to work on bad runways. High/Low wings also avoid the problem of...

Stop name calling. It is against forum rules and generally stops discussion. I was putting your assertion that there were only 20% muslims voting in perspective. I was saying is that 47% or 42% actually stands for a proper support. In the case of Kashmir too it is probably valid to say that...

What these guys built is not big either. A good way to start building these is to start from R/C airplane kits. It would cost about Rs 5000 (Indian) for a kit, but you really only need the propellers and the engine. You can then stick them on a cardboard and add rubber skirting. The most...

What was with the Red and Black flags in the video? I assumed DMK - maybe I am wrong.

I guessed from the way you have one "initial" before your name and the way you spell "Sukumar" :-). The longer story was what I understand about Southern Tamilnadu politics and generally for the benfit of others. Most Indians (even Kannadigas or Andhraites) don't understand the intricacies.

I agree. The lynchpin of this pro-Tamil-Eelam movement is MDMK and its head Vaiko. V. Gopalswamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He is active in Southern Tamilnadu, right where all the refugees from Sri Lankan war land up. The local population is hence supportive of the Sri Lankan-Tamil...

Actually DMK activists recently attacked an army truck claiming that Indian Army supports the Sri Lankan Army by supplying arms to them. Look at this thread http://www.defence.pk/forums/strategic-geopolitical-issues/26589-thats-indian-security.html#post375780 It is fair to say that central...

The valley does not have that many Hindus, its mainly Muslim. The hindus are more in Srinagar (where oddly the turnout was even lower) and south Kashmir while Ladakh is Buddhist-Muslim-Hindu. The numbers compare pretty well with 4th phase polling over all of India which is about 51%. This is...

42% polling in Jammu and Kashmir Ignoring the separatists' call for a boycott of elections, an estimated 42 per cent of over 12 lakh voters cast their ballots in Baramulla and Ladakh Lok Sabha constituencies in the fifth and last phase in Jammu and Kashmir today. "As per tentative...

Nope, not a (born) Tamilian.I speak the language pretty OK since I lived in Chennai for a while. I can read the newspapers in Tamil, but I am not exactly native-level-fluent. My background is pretty mixed. Agree on the part that she is after votes - it is an easy way for her to recover her...

That's the first time I've heard that. She was born into a Brahmin family in Mysore (Karnataka) , and is now leading a Dravidian Tamil party in Tamilnadu (and fighting Karnataka over water issues). What's the Andhra angle here ?

Pretty remarkable restraint by the Army. By law they cannot be prosecuted by police but still they avoid fighting the cops and did not fire at the civilians. The cops are trying to pacify the Army men -- the dialog at the end (cops to the Army man) is approximately "Please let it go, we'll take...

I think you calendar is broken or your zoo is broken. This is the year of the Ox, not pig, AFAIK. http://www.ofesite.com/spirit/chinese/animal2.htm

The scriptures are not central to Hinduism like Bible to Christianity or Quran to Islam. It is fair to say that if you find two different Hindus randomly from India, they will have different scriptures (if they have read any scriptures in the original at all). It is also common to leave out...

As an Indian who thinks that Burqa is bad, I'll condemn the wrong practices in India with equal voice (actually greater voice, since I can actually affect some change in India).

For cars and smaller vehicles, it is more common to convert into LPG (liquefied petroleum gas - cooking gas). It is simpler to convert a petrol engine to LPG and LPG is also easily available. Most metros have a LPG filling station and vehicles are available from factory for LPG (no gas...

I think that is a more general rule. Threads about Dead poets will come alive, those about Bible will mutate into ones about Quran etc. etc. That's a general drift in random direction.