Found this link via a Twitter update from @pragmatic_d : After his US trip, Ajai Shukla draws three significant observations about Indian defence purchases from the US : And that is my second big impression: that India is not yet a part of the high table. When one of America’s long-standing defence partners — the UK or Australia or Japan — makes a request, whether for high technology, or early delivery of an important weapon system, a quick wink from Foggy Bottom (the Washington neighbourhood where the US State Department is headquartered) gets the department’s notorious bureaucracy to crank out a quick “yes”

Hop on to Bagesh Singh ’s blog to learn more about he profession and what you need to get into the profession. There is a copy of the same article available on his home page as well, in case the text is a little garbled up on the wordpress: Modern network applications typically contain three or more layers, as well as a team the size of the development project, he or she can focus on one or several levels – or may need more cross-disciplinary role.

Four New York University students have voiced their opinion against the social giant Facebook in an innovative manner. They are going to launch a Facebook alternative that shall be an open source web service that puts it’s users in control of their data

Normally I don’t post movie reviews here considering my taste in Bollywood movies. Although my affinity towards Bollywood babes and deep-as-earth’s-core-cleavage attracts my eyeballs to movie theaters once in a while even if it means stupid Bollywood movies. Housefull stars a host of elegant flesh, namely, super hottie Lara Dutta (man she’s got some cleavage!), deep dish Deepika Padukone and Ms.

A former Director General of Police of Karnataka files a complaint against the highest officials in the state for non-implementation of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Saint, in a short but hard-hitting post , points out the significance of this complaint: This is the first time such a high level police complaint has been lodged against some of the top officials of a state govt. It must be quite obvious that an ordinary citizen of India or a villager will never be able to file such a police complaint, it never happened thus far.

When a Haryana court handed down the death sentence to five family members this spring for murdering a young couple who’d married in violation of an arcane incest taboo, women’s rights activists hailed the decision as a landmark judgment. But now a new challenge from the village councils that order such killings threatens to bring more violence

In a relevant discussion as the media heats up their new blue-eyed boy [scumbag] Kasab, Vamsi demystifies the attainment of heaven or the 72 Hoories after dying in waging a holy Jihad: In the case of Hadith … the Hadith is a Historical Record of the ”directions or orders’ of Prophet Mohammed … which are to be seen on a case to case basis … and are relevant only when he was alive some centuries ago.