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*** NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO INDIA ***

Background:

- The second largest country in the world by population. Indian/Indic civilization was actually more advanced than the Greek, Roman, Iranian and other civilizations but due to the Euro-centric nature of the international media not given its due credit.

For centuries, India (along with China) was the richest part of the world accounting for the majority of world economic activity until the recent few centuries. Bengal was the richest part of India.

Now India is looking to accelerate its development in what many are predicting to be an "Asian century".

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India's Mars Orbiter Mission sends back its first 3D images of Mars

By Lori Sandoval, Tech Times | October 8,




3D Image of MarsIndia has made history yet again by successfully capturing a 3D image of Mars through the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The anaglyph 3D image was generated using multiple pictures taken by the Mars Color Camera.

(Photo : Indian Space Research Organisation)
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) released its very first 3D image of the Red Planet, following the Mangalyaan spacecraft’s successful entry into the Martian orbit last month, the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

"ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission captures its first image of Mars. Taken from a height of 7300 km; with 376 m spatial resolution," said ISRO. The ISRO uploaded the image on its Facebook page on Sept. 24.

"History has been created today," Prime Minister Narendra Modi was quoted by Tech2.

The anaglyph 3D image of Mars was generated using multiple pictures acquired by Mars Color Camera, the ISRO also said on Facebook. The Mars Color Camera was installed in MOM. To see the image, the public will need to use their 3D glasses. The Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre of ISRO designed and developed the said camera.

The Mars Orbiter Spacecraft fired a 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) plus eight smaller liquid engines in its operation that lasted for 1388.67 seconds, according to the statement released by ISRO. Through such operation, it entered into an elliptical orbit around Mars. LAM last fired on December 1, 2013.

The spacecraft is currently orbiting Mars; the nearest point to Mars is 421.7 km and farthest point is 76,993.6. The predisposition of orbit in terms of the equatorial plane of the Red Planet is 150 degree, and it takes the spacecraft 72 hours, 51 minutes and 51 seconds to circle Mars one time.

The Mars orbiter was launched into parking orbit around the Earth on Nov. 5, 2013 aboard the workhorse launch vehicle PSLV of India. It escaped orbit on Dec. 1, 2013 and reached Mars on Sept. 24, almost a year later. ISRO's mission has made the organization the fourth space agency to send a spacecraft to orbit Mars successfully.

The ISRO operation came after the equally successful orbit of NASA's Maven on Sept. 21. Maven could last a decade or more, research said.

India's spacecraft will be tested thoroughly in orbit to Mars and will start its systematic observation through the use of five scientific instruments. The MOM mission, worth $73 million, is projected to last for at least six months.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/17349/20141008/indias-mars-orbiter-mission-sends-back-its-first-3d-images-of-mars.htm

Satirical picture popular on social media.

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India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier taking shape at Cochin Shipyard Limited


India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier was taking shape in the Cochin Shipyard Limited at Kochi, one of the nine Defence PSUs in the country, where 85 per cent of the work relating to its hull are complete, a senior official said here today.
“Around 85 per cent of the hull is complete and 90 per cent of the fabrication is over. 85 per cent of the erection has been over,” Commodore K Subramaniam (Retd), CSL Chairman and Managing Director told reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the CII.
Interacting with journalists in the sidelines of a CII- organised conference on ‘Approach to Integrated Maritime Systems’ here, he said many elements of innovations were being incorporated in the building of the aircraft carrier.
“For instance, the Navy wanted a 14 degree ski-jump in the foxle of the ship for easy taking off of fighter planes, for which a big piece of iron had to be welded, which was also trimming down the ship to the front.
“We have employed a big piece of iron in the hull area, which will function as a buoyant, which has made the keel of the hull float horizontally. Likewise, we have made many innovations in the building.”
Replying to a query, he said the degree of indigenous equipment in the aircraft carrier was very high, barring the aviation, for which the county was dependent on Russia. “We can say around 80 per cent of the ship is indigenous.”
Elaborating on the localisation, he said that the metal sheets used for the building of the ship was designed by the Hyderabad-based Defence Research Development Laboratory and production was being done by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
CSL was looking to focus on ship repair industry, Subramaniam said.
“We are also focusing on ship repair, which is a USD 12 billion or Rs 60,000 crore industry across the globe. But in India it is a less than Rs 1,000 crore. We are investing in 40 acre land of the port in Kochi with an investment of Rs 480 crore,” he said.
Commenting on the growth of the ship building in India, he said that there were many obstacles including the taxing, which posed major challenges to the industry.
“Right now, it would be easy for the Shipping Corporation of India to buy ships from abroad than get it from us, since it would involve a lot of taxes. These challenges have to be overcome with a comprehensive maritime shipping policy, which would provide the blue print for all the challenges facing the industry,” Subramaniam added.

Source : PTI

http://defenceradar.com/2014/10/10/indias-first-indigenous-aircraft-carrier-taking-shape-at-cochin-shipyard-limited/

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1. An aircraft carrier is regarded by some as the peak of defence production, even more than a submarine.

2. An aircraft is considered as a mobile mini-town and apparently in American US military doctrine any attack on a Nimitz class US aircraft carrier would be considered akin to a nuclear strike on the actual American mainland i.e. it would invite nuclear retaliation.

3. A single US aircraft carrier for example can host more than all the military fighter planes of either Bangladesh or Burma.

4. China is building aircraft carriers to contain American hegemony and global aggressive behaviour.

China sees America as its main rival in the world.


5. India is now joining in the aircraft carrier race.

India sees China as its main rival in Asia.

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India v China economic competition. China does not see India as a rival on its level and sees the US as a rival worthy of competing with.



Two Asian giants, which occupy a huge amount of land mass, India and China.




China v India missile race.




There is an arms race between these two Asian giants.

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Bangladesh has good relations with both countries and will work to make sure there is no conflict in Asia of which it is part of.



Bangladesh would like both Asian giants to focus on trade with each other and mutually beneficial economic development.

[Srinivas]

Nice Thread [MENTION=1058]Bengal_Tiger[/MENTION] !!

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Nice Thread [MENTION=1058]Bengal_Tiger[/MENTION] !!

A strong and stable India is a strong and stable Bangladesh.

Let us work hard to make sure that our relationship continues to improve despite the efforts of a certain state, bitter at its past humiliation and defeats, and its proxies (including those operating in Bangladesh).

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US investors bet on PM Modi, to invest $41 billion in India in 3 years

TNN | Oct 5, 2014, 02.03AM IST

Obama. US investors have pledged investments worth $41 million in the next 3 years after PM's trip to America.

NEW DELHI: While much has been made of the US' decision to revoke PM Narendra Modi's visa in 2005, the issue did not figure at all in his discussions with President Barack Obama either over the dinner at White House or the bilateral meet between the two leaders next day. Official sources also said that the success of Modi's trip to the US had paved the way for investments worth $ 41 billion from the US into India in the next few years.

"PM has said he does not hold any grudge against the issue and President Obama too chose not to bring up the issue at the meetings he had with the PM,'' said a government source here, adding that Modi's visit to the country was a "game-changing'' one.

"That's because the visit has put bilateral ties now in an altogether higher trajectory,'' the source said. Asked to identify takeaways from the visit, sources cited the announcement by USIBC (US-India Business Council) about investments worth $ 41 billion into India in the next 3 years.

"This is actually only 20% of what is expected from the US. Because of the kind of majority he has in Parliament, and also his ability to get things done based on Gujarat model, the PM commanded a lot of respect among prospective US investors and this has done wonders for the global investor sentiment,'' said an official source, adding that the visit marked an intersection of foreign policy priorities and domestic issues.

USIBC told Modi during the visit that it had identified upwards of $41 billion for investment by its members in India within the next 3 years. Ficci has welcomed the development saying this was very encouraging given Modi's emphasis on making India a manufacturing hub. The development is being seen as a "harbinger'' of transformative projects that would be launched by the private sector from both sides and would contribute to realising Modi's vision for manufacturing excellence.


Sources said that Modi and Obama hit off really well when they first met for the dinner at White House with the two leaders even exchanging notes on issues related to technology and their election campaigns.


According to sources, both the leaders "reaffirmed'' their commitment to implement fully the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement despite serious differences over India's nuclear liability law. The two countries have established a Contact Group on advancing the implementation of civil nuclear energy cooperation in order to realize early "their shared goal of delivering electricity from US-built nuclear power plants in India''.

They said the two countries are looking forward to advancing the dialogue to discuss all implementation issues, including but not limited to administrative issues, liability, technical issues, and licensing to facilitate the establishment of nuclear parks, including power plants with Westinghouse and GE-Hitachi.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-investors-bet-on-PM-Modi-to-invest-41-billion-in-India-in-3-years/articleshow/44360022.cms

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India poised to be a $2 trillion economy


If country grows by at least 5% this year and rupee does not resume downward slide, India can reach the milestone Asit Ranjan Mishra


India’s economy is poised to become a $2 trillion one by the end of 2014-15—provided it grows by at least 5% this year and the rupee does not resume its downward slide. This is a real number and not adjusted for purchasing power parity, or PPP, according to which the Chinese economy will be larger than that of the US by the end of 2014. India is expected to grow by 5.4% this year, up from 4.7% in 2013-14. The economy grew by 4.5% in 2012-13, a decade’s low, and but for the loss in momentum over the past two years, would have crossed the $2 trillion mark already. Sure, the $2 trillion mark is merely a numerical milestone. For instance, it doesn’t mean much in terms of per capita income (India’s current gross domestic product, or GDP, is around $ 1.8 trillion), and India will remain a lower middle-income economy. Its economy will have to grow by at least four times and its population remain at the same level for it to become an upper middle income economy. The Indian government factored in the $2 trillion milestone in the Union budget for this financial year. The central government budget for 2014-15, presented in July, projected GDP at Rs.128 trillion assuming 13.4% nominal GDP growth, which at Wednesday’s closing of the rupee at 61.395 amounts to $2.1 trillion. At the turn of the millennium, the Indian GDP was about $481 billion and by 2007 it was measured at $1.2 trillion. That means it had grown two-and-a-half times in seven years. And effectively, in a span of 14 years the Indian economy has grown more than four times. To be sure, the economy is plagued by structural imbalances. Services account for a preponderant share of GDP while the share of manufacturing has remained stagnant at 15% for several years. The bigger challenge is that this growth has not been accompanied by a commensurate growth in employment.

According to the Planning Commission, between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, the number of jobs in the so-called formal sector fell 2 million and the 4.62 million jobs created were all in the informal sector. To put these numbers in context, around 12 million people join the job market every year. This rapid expansion of the economy, accompanied by poor employment growth, has come to be referred to as jobless growth—something that cost the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance dearly in the 16th general election. Another point of concern has been the fact that Indian agriculture, which accounts for 18% of GDP, still employs a little under 50% of the country’s workforce. That proportion itself is a milestone; it was only in 2013 that the number of people employed in agriculture fell below 50% of all workers. The rapid growth of the Indian economy has had a positive impact on poverty levels. At the poverty level of $1.25 a day, the number of poor in India has declined significantly from 41.6% of the population in 2005 to 32.7% of the population in 2010, according to the World Bank. The same trend was also reflected in the 2011 Census, which showed that materially most of the country had traded up between 2001 and 2011. For instance, in 2011, two in three households had access to banking services, up from one in three a decade ago. In the same period, the number of households with a television doubled. At the same time, the rapid economic growth has been accompanied by a spurt in urbanization. Since 1951, the proportion of rural population that lives in villages with a population less than 2,000 has decreased from 63% to 28%. Meanwhile, the proportion of that living in large villages (population more than 5,000) has risen from 5% to 17%, according to the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Some of these villages have been classified as Census Towns by the Census—places where farming is no longer viable and people have moved on to other professions. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of such towns trebled, to 3894. The literacy rate also increased significantly in between to 74.04% in 2011 from 65.38% in 2001, according to the Census of India. Challenges remain. With more mobile phones than toilets in the country and gender biases in every field of the society, India remains a third-world country in many aspects, even after becoming a lower middle income country in 2007 with average per capita income rising above $1,006. Although becoming a $2 trillion economy is an important milestone, it still is no more than a number, said Crisil Ltd chief economist D.K. Joshi. “We have many people still under poverty. India and China were of the same size two decades ago and now China is a decade ahead of us,” he said. “India needs to grow at a much faster rate to provide employment opportunities to the youth. At the same time, the quality of growth is also very important to address issues of inequality and regional disparity.” Prashant K. Nanda contributed to this story.

Read more at: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/NLn...tm_source=copy

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Sumitha Narayanan Kutty: Why we can't take Afghanistan for granted


Hamid Karzai clung tight to India but Afghanistan's new leadership may have other ideas

Sumitha Narayanan Kutty October 12, 2014 Last Updated at 22:46 IST

Afghanistan has a new president, albeit two months late. And even as the newly inaugurated president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and his “chief executive officer” Abdullah Abdullah hash out the specifics of the country’s first peaceful political transition, outgoing president Hamid Karzai minced no words to convey who he thought were Afghanistan’s ‘true friends.’

“The Western countries and the United States of America came to Afghanistan for their personal goals. There are also countries who, without having personal agendas, are here for honest cooperation with Afghanistan’s government. One example is India.”

Karzai’s sharp criticism of the United States and NATO alliance in the same breath as his praise for India were completely in line with what he has been saying for a long while now. It was interesting to see his no holds barred attempt to drive this point home crediting India, Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan… and India, again.

Before India breaks out the champagne, it would be prudent to acknowledge that the stakes have changed in a post-Karzai Afghanistan. The India-Afghanistan partnership now hinges on the new national unity government in Kabul – forged between two bitter rivals nonetheless – and their vision of regional cooperation. Ghani and Abdullah will together decide where India fits (though rumor has it, the president has the final word).

“Indian military aid not priority”

The United States is set to withdraw all but 9,800 troops by year end from Afghanistan, with a complete exit scheduled by 2016. Given this situation, India has often been urged to assume a more active role in the country, particularly of the military kind. There has been great (and well-intentioned) interest for India, which has spent $2 billion in aid, to step up to the plate and become Afghanistan’s “Plan B” of sorts. As president, Hamid Karzai championed the same. In the last year alone, he made three visits to New Delhi. He also handed over a military “wish-list” in December 2013.

By June this year even as Karzai made a renewed push for greater military aid, both Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah, then presidential finalists, began hinting at other ideas for the relationship.

First, they do not seem to prioritize military cooperation as Karzai did. Responding to this writer’s question on whether he would push for greater military cooperation with India like his predecessor, Abdullah Abdullah who is a traditional Indian ally answered in the negative.

“In terms of dealing with Prime Minister Modi’s government, I don’t think the priority for Afghanistan is to ask for military aid at this stage, ” he replied at a video conversation organized by the Atlantic Council in Washington DC in June. He however added that he was keen to work with New Delhi to enhance “existing areas of cooperation for the benefit of economic development in Afghanistan.”


A quick scan of the Northern Alliance leader’s election manifesto finds New Delhi placed within the two pillars of his ‘economic agenda’ – the first, for furthering regional connectivity and second, on deepening energy partnerships, specifically the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.

President Ashraf Ghani is yet to evince special interest in India’s role in his country. His foreign policy thrust has remained oriented to the West, particularly the United States, with a regional thrust on a “ten-year process of engagement with Pakistan.” He has expressed some interest in talking to India on trilateral issues such as transit.

The Afghan president’s 310-page election manifesto mentions India frequently, but in very vague terms with respect to strategies for Afghanistan’s education, health, economic and trade sectors. In the section devoted to foreign policy, the country is only placed in Kabul’s “Fourth Circle” of communication along with China and other “Asian countries.” India finds itself ranked behind “Neighbors” (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran & Pakistan); “Islamic Countries” and “Europe, USA, Canada and Japan.”

Second, Ghani and Abdullah do not share Karzai’s anti-American posture which pushed him toward India and Iran. The future of the bilateral security agreement (BSA) is already secure with the new Afghan government having endorsed it right after the presidential inauguration. Kabul’s new government will continue “banking on” the ten-year security framework, supplemented by international support from friendly nations like India. This suits India’s current appetite and bandwidth for a secondary, less muscular role in Afghanistan.

New Delhi Playing to Strengths

Despite much talk in Washington about how the India-Pakistan rivalry plays out in Kabul, India is painfully aware of its geopolitical limitations vis-à-vis its neighbor which shares a border with Afghanistan. Its strategic partnership agreement signed in 2011 with Kabul prioritizes security but India remains cautious, terming it an “enabling framework” for cooperation when the time is right. Nonetheless, New Delhi has keep the situation conducive to more military aid. One such move is the agreement India signed with Russia, where it would pay Moscow to supply smaller arms such as light artillery and mortar to the Afghan military.

Another factor that affects India’s Afghan calculations is its “Pakistan first” policy. On any given day, New Delhi would take the normalization of ties with Pakistan over a greater role in Afghanistan. Thus, with no illusions of a primary role in shaping outcomes, India continues to work on expanding economic cooperation in conjunction with Iran which provides much needed land access to Afghanistan. Like India, Iran’s policies toward Afghanistan transcend political differences and the country is key to Kabul’s framework of regional cooperation. This collaboration will be a space to watch.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has continued to reiterate New Delhi’s support to safeguard the happiness of the Afghan people. With the political transition in Kabul now complete, India and Afghanistan should work on reaffirming and expanding their partnership. What form this partnership takes however remains Afghanistan’s prerogative.

Sumitha Narayanan Kutty is a foreign affairs analyst specializing in Iran and South Asia and a Research Scholar at the Takshashila Institution—an independent think tank.




* Ashraf Ghani is not as sceptical of the Americans as Karzai according to this article and thus does not see India and other states as alternative sources of support in the way that Karzai apparently did.

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[MENTION=18224]Srinivas[/MENTION]

Pakistani nationalists have long sought to create hatred between Bangladesh and India.

Such hatred does not benefit Bangladesh or India who are working to resolve issues in an adult and mature manner.

The following thread is from the notorious Pakistani hate-site, "defence.pk", the same web-site where Jamaatis celebrate the death of Bangladeshi soldiers, a Jamaati said 60%+ of Bangladeshis are of Arab, Turkish and Iranian blood (nonsense) and lots of other ridiculous things:

http://defence.pk/threads/growing-and-strong-bangladesh-threatens-india-in-long-term.338405/

The individual who started the thread actually wrote it himself and it is not from any Bangladeshi or Indian website. He is also a well-known troublemaker who has abused members of this site (Pashtun forums) and threatened physical damage against one member and challenged him to a fight.

Anyway someone posted it on a Bangladeshi military forum and this is what the owner of the forum said:

1. Bangladesh never wishes to threaten any of its neighbours or harm them through its actions unless they provoke it.

2. Most of our problems with India and Myanmar have been resolved and whatever problem with India remains can be easily solved it New Delhi actually moved its slothy self but it is clear that there are elements within India who want Bangladesh-India relations to remain poor as they can gain some mileage from it either inside India or in Bangladesh by helping some of their allies.

3. There is absolutely no correlation between the above post and the link supplied with the article. Bangladesh does not intent to have an army of 800,000 by 2030, less than half that number is enough to defeat India/Myanmar in any conventional war.

4. It is very clear to me that the people who are engaged in mindless anti-neighbouring tirades are the same people who are anti-armed forces. They have very little faith in our armed forces and are very upset that the army has not killed Sheikh Hasina and seized power like their Paki wet dreams. These people are also supporting some political parties which claim to be nationalistic yet they are the very opposite of that. We have compared who did what for the armed forces and the result is that BNP-JeI only wanted an army whose main role is political interference when signal comes from Hawa Bhaban - in fact they think they can treat the army like dogs who will do their bidding whenever they want. The same people also killed thousands of our air force officers and stunted the growth of the air force. They also crippled the Navy through their decommissioning and wanton abuse of distinguished naval officers.

I don't like the present AL (for their corruption and abuse of power) but I will not be shy in praising their good deeds as they have done more for the development of the armed forces than any other government in the past 40 years.

5. I think the OP is just made up BS copied from Paki-Jamati minded idiots and have no relation to Bangladesh armed forces.

http://www.bdmilitary.com/forum/index.php?/topic/200876-growing-strong-bd-threat-to-india/

1. Saying an economically strong Bangladesh is a threat to India, is like saying an economically strong Finland is a threat to Russia.

Finland is wealthy, why should it want war with nuclear superpower Russia?

If Bangladesh becomes a wealthier society there is less reason for wanting conflict with nuclear state India rather than more, as per Pakistani wet dreams.



2. The Jamaati propaganda on that Pakistani military site (remember "defence.pk" is a Pakistani military site where moderators will harass - via private moderator infractions and messages - Bangladeshi members who oppose the Jamaati narrative too vocally and Pakistani nationalists want Bangladeshis to hate India) is full of too many internal contradictions, even if someone isn't aware of the facts. Here is an example:

Dude BD defence budget is rising rapidly as we speak. From the current 3 billion dollars a year it will hit 10 billion in a decade's time.

Myanmar is no threat but India is. BD over the long term needs an effective military that can deter India.

Expect modern frigates, submarines and even fifth generation fighters to be procured over the next decade.

Source: http://defence.pk/threads/countrys-l...#ixzz3G2h6K5Um

On the one hand the defence.pk Jamaatis lie and say that Bangladesh is controlled by India, then at the same time they say Bangladesh is progressing economically and will beef up its army to face India - this while all the time being under supposed Indian domination.

There are lots of lies and false propaganda on that site, but it needs to be understood that:

a: Bangladesh is a poor country focused on reducing poverty and developing the country.

b: We are not looking for war with anyone in particular a nuclear power like India.

c: Bangladeshis need to work hard to make sure that the Pakistani-backed BNP (main opposition party) do not implement the Pakistani agenda of trying to create hatred and tension between India and Bangladesh, but instead work on economic development.

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*** NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO INDIA ***

Background:

- The second largest country in the world by population. Indian/Indic civilization was actually more advanced than the Greek, Roman, Iranian and other civilizations but due to the Euro-centric nature of the international media not given its due credit.

For centuries, India (along with China) was the richest part of the world accounting for the majority of world economic activity until the recent few centuries. Bengal was the richest part of India.

Now India is looking to accelerate its development in what many are predicting to be an "Asian century".

Recently i was searching and watched documentry of graham hancok who was working on flooded kingdoms of ancient times...and indus valley had a vast civilised city now under water at cambray island...The artefects can still be found...

Most intriguing thing was that among mohenjodaro...there is mass grave of 40 bodies and show signs of some nuclear attavk on them but at a small level...which shows they might ve been very advanced in technology...

[Bengal_Tiger]

Recently i was searching and watched documentry of graham hancok who was working on flooded kingdoms of ancient times...and indus valley had a vast civilised city now under water at cambray island...The artefects can still be found...

Most intriguing thing was that among mohenjodaro...there is mass grave of 40 bodies and show signs of some nuclear attavk on them but at a small level...which shows they might ve been very advanced in technology...

Manana Ghumbasa jaan,

1. I can't comment on Mohenjo Daro and the nuclear attack, maybe [MENTION=18224]Srinivas[/MENTION]
can.

2. East and South Asian culture and civilization are older than that of Europe and until the modern period were far superior.

- Indians for example had superior clothing e.g. the fine sarees we can see. Poetry, literature, music and many other things.

- Indians and Chinese have superior herbal and medicinal treatment e.g. Indian Yoga, Chinese Tai Chi, Chinese acupuncture and so many other things.

I have never heard of any major indigenous ancient European herbal or healing system which can compare.

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Terrorism Effect: ISI's version of Make in India

Posted by: Oneindia Staff Writer Published: Friday, October 17, 2014, 12:27


Make in India and target Bangladesh.

The growing fondness between India and Bangladesh did not go down too well with the ISI and it helped the Jamaat-ul-Bangladesh which had become almost defunct to set up the West Bengal module which was meant to make bombs in India and target Bangladesh. This plan would have revealed that Bangladesh is being targeted from Indian soil and in the bargain the relations between the two countries would have gone sour. It is a well known fact that the ISI has not had it easy since the Awami League cracked down on almost all terror groups which were created in the first place to target India. HuJI, Jamaat-e-Islami to name a few were all nurtured by the ISI to hit India. The National Investigating Agency which is also probing the role of Tamil based Al-Ummah in the blast says that this was an operation bigger than what we had thought. While Kausar Ali is believed to be the man who played the middle man between the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen in Bangladesh and West Bengal, the real mastermind according to both the NIA and the Intelligence Bureau is a man called Shadul Hussain who came to West Bengal exactly four years back and took shelter in Murshidabad. He coordinated with another operative by the name Reza Karim to set up several modules across Malda and Murshidabad, Intelligence Bureau officials point out. Ironically the presence of Hussain was known well to both the Research and Analysis Wing and also the Intelligence Bureau who in fact in a communication to the Home Ministry in 2011 had pointed out the same. The communication sent out by the RAW secretary spoke about these men setting up a module in Murshidabad's Lalghola. The communication further stated that the centre should coordinate with the West Bengal government and have both these men arrested. However there was no action, an officer associated with the probe informed. The first cash transaction to this module was made from Dhaka and Intelligence Bureau officials say that the amount was around Rs 10 lakh. A module in Nawabganj in Bangladesh which is a known ISI sponsored module sent in the money for the first time to the module in Murhisdabad.

Based on the intelligence sharing between the two countries India was told specifically about this module which operated under the guise of a Madrasa and was used specifically to set up the West Bengal module. Information obtained through Intelligence sharing also pointed to the ISI's Dhaka module which had helped these operatives with the material and more importantly the funds. For the ISI nurturing this module had becomes extremely important. It had thought Bangladesh to be an ally and together would nurture outfits in the country to launch strikes against India. It had even created the HuJI a sister concern of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba which was successful to a large extent. However things began to change once the Bangladesh government decided to crack down on terror groups. The ISI then nurtured an almost defunct Jamaat-ul-Bangladesh and from its embassy in Dhaka began setting up this deadly module which would Make in India and strike in Bangladesh. As per the investigation Kausar Ali who coordinated with Hussain and Khan carried cash to the tune of Rs 80 lakh in the first year of the module being set up. The plan was to have a force of 180 persons both male and female to set up a full fledged army to attack Bangladesh. Investigators are clear that this attack was only aimed Bangladesh and every attack would be carried out from Indian soil. This according to the plan would make India look bad and the ties with Bangladesh would turn sour which meant that the ISI could go back to playing its old games of using Bangladesh as a launching pad to control the militancy in West Bengal and other bordering states. Murshidabad, Malda and Nadia were the chosen targets and the intent was clearly to set up as many bomb factories as possible. Using the illegal Madrasas, local groups and outfits such as the SIMI were all part of the plan. During the course of this plan, several operatives of the JMB had a free run in India. The head of the JMB, Habid Rehman visited West Bengal twice last year, He even stayed in Murshidabad and over saw a couple of operational details. While all the operational details were being planned in West Bengal they were a bit slow on the fund collection drive as they did not want anyone to suspect what really was going on.

Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/feature/isi-...inite-scroll-1



[MENTION=18224]Srinivas[/MENTION]

1. Pakistan is in some sort of conflict with nearly all of its immediate neighbours.

a: Afghanistan - It is sponsoring terrorism there, but fortunately the Afghanistan security services have had a major success there in the past day or two with the arrest of two key Haqqani leaders.


b: Iran - Iran is threatening to send troops inside Pakistani soil as militants from Pakistan are targeting Iran.

c: India - India retaliated to Pakistani artillery barrage on Indian civilians after India defeated Pakistan in a hockey tournament. The Modi government replied with massive retaliation stunning the Pakistani regime and military and sending them begging to the UN and US to stop the wrath of India.


In addition China is not happy with anti-Chinese militants being trained in Pakistan.

The Pakistanis are now also targeting Bangladesh, just as they have targeted India and Afghanistan.



2. The Pakistani ISI want to use Bangladesh as their "eastern wing" to destabilize and weaken India as part of their geo-political war against India (the Pakistani army and ISI care very little for ordinary Pakistani civilians especially non-Punjabis and their daily struggle for a better life).

Thus they support the BNP party led by the notorious Khaleda Zia (also supported by Saudi Arabia) and of course the Jamaat e "Islami" terrorist organization to have a Pakistan-friendly Bangladesh which they can use to sponsor anti-Indian terrorism in India's north-east.

Any attempt by Bangladesh to have good and friendly relations with India will be dubbed by the Pakistanis and the global "Islamist" network that support them (Saudi, "Muslim Brotherhood") as "treachery".

Pakistanis have successfully brainwashed ignorant Muslims and "Muslim" organizations and states against Bangladesh and its desire to be a peaceful country with peaceful relations with its neighbours.


3. The Qader Molla issue and war crimes trials of Jamaat e "Islami" leaders has shown that Pakistan has successfully brainwashed major Muslim organizations and states against Bangladesh. They have turned Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, Qatar, Tunisisa, Sudan etc against on this.

We being betrayed by supposed "Muslim brothers" need to find allies to protect ourselves from this bullying by "Muslim" states, who Islamically should actually be sympathetic to us for being victims of genocide and mass rape but are actually supportive of Pakistanis due to the cynical exploitation of Islamic rhetoric by Pakistanis and their racial preference for lighter-skinned Pakistanis.



Erdogan, his terrorist-sponsoring regime have attempted to bully Bangladesh and support Pakistan over war crimes trials.

- We (Bangladesh) need to work with India, China and Russia to pressurize the Pakistani regime and GCC not to sponsor Jamaat e "Islami" or "Islamist" terrorism in Bangladesh.

If Bangladesh, India, China and Russia all co-operate against "Islamist" terrorism, Arab-Pakistani backed terrorists will not be able to cause as much damage and bloodshed as they have done as we can see in Iraq and Syria.


Afghanistan, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, central Asian states and others can also join this bloc for anti-terrorist coperation.

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Manana Ghumbasa jaan,

1. I can't comment on Mohenjo Daro and the nuclear attack, maybe [MENTION=18224]Srinivas[/MENTION]
can.

2. East and South Asian culture and civilization are older than that of Europe and until the modern period were far superior.

- Indians for example had superior clothing e.g. the fine sarees we can see. Poetry, literature, music and many other things.

- Indians and Chinese have superior herbal and medicinal treatment e.g. Indian Yoga, Chinese Tai Chi, Chinese acupuncture and so many other things.

I have never heard of any major indigenous ancient European herbal or healing system which can compare.

Mesopotamian regions were far advanced too..and the oldest civilisation..However research is showing yet more old and advaced cvilised society was of atlantis...

According to hadeeths ..once jibrail as (angel was ordered by Allah to go to a nation thats rebellion and punish them...they ve advanced too much but is involved in kufr..So t test their advancement jibrail as asked a shepherd where ange l jibrail could be...The shepherd drew some lines with his stick on ground and told him,"i searched everywhere...and came to conclusion either its you or me..since i know who i am ...so its you." Angel jbrail as then desroyed the whole city by upside down then through sea water..

The punishment somewhat resembles with destruction of atlantis and its advancement as well.