You will be surprised to know that there is a lot more of these kinds of incidences between IA and PA than people think. It might surprise you that PA officers were more than willing to serve under IA commander on a common UN mission rather than a westerner and vice versa.
There are established procedures to ensure a landing which includes calling up the heli on international distress frequency and ordering it to land immediately or face action. Looks like IA heli complied and landed.
I doubt that if it were on a spy mission. If it was, it would have made a dash...
You don't test waters with a light utility copter like cheetah. That would be suicidal. IMO it just got lost and flew into Pak territory. According to CNN-IBN, PA says that the heli strayed across LoC and crew members may be released after investigations.
This does not look like a Bangladesh Flag although it does resemble it. The producers should have been more sensitive to this kind of design. Bangladesh members, it appears to be a mistake.
I don't think there is much to read into this. It is just to boost the morale of Indian troops. I am sure PLA also has some of these kinds of board to boost PLA men too.
Politicians are hand in glove with Naxals. Naxals enjoys their support and as long as the support is there, Naxals would not be eliminated. Moreover, the security forces engaged with them are just plain police. Not even special forces. Commandos are employed only for specific cases.
Launching satellite is a commercial venture. It does not scare any superpower in any way and I do not think Russians would mind India launching satellite.