Saturday, August 2, 2008
Kargil Victory(India won war with pakistan)
Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on July 26th
We remember only when WAR comes that our brothers and sisters are fighting the borders. But the reality is that "because they are fighting everyday we are not having WAR.
Jai Hind
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SALUTE THEM FOR ALL THEIR SACRIFICE ….
READ THE LETTER BELOW……………..
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OF KARGIL WAR
KARGIL'S FIRST HERO
Lt. Saurabh Kalia
His UNIFORM as a MEMORY
Capt.Vikram Batra
Param Vir Chakra(Posthumous)
Grenedier. Yogendra Singh
Param Vir Chakra
Lieutenant Kanad Bhattacharya,
Sena Medal (Posthumous)(22 YEARS)
Captain R Jerry Prem Raj,
Vir Chakra (Posthumous),
158 Medium Regiment
Lieutenant Balwan Singh,
Maha Vir Chakra
Of the 18th Battalion of GRENADIERS Regiment
Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nangrum,
Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous)
Of the 12th Battalion of JAMMU AND KASHMIR Light Infantry
Major M Saravanan,
VirChakra,
1 Bihar 
Major Padmapani Acharya,
Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous)
Of the 2nd Battalion of The RAJPUTANA RIFLES
Major Sonam Wangchuk,
Maha Vir Chakra
Of the LADAKH Scouts
RFN .Sanjay Kumar
(Param Vir Chakra)
Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nangrum,
Maha Vir Chakra (Posthumous)
Of the 12th Battalion of JAMMU AND KASHMIR Light Infantry
Officers & Jawans from the 2nd Rajputana Rifles pray before going into battle, to get back Tololing Top. Behind the jawan in the foreground (with a 5.56mm INSAS rifle) is Captain Vijayant Thapar . His face is partly hidden and is seen sporting a beard. Lieutenant Thapar laid down his life, in the capture of Tololing Top and was awarded the Vir Chakra posthumously for his valour.
Major Padmapani Acharya, 2nd Rajputana Rifles, leads his men into battle after the successful capture of Tololing Top. The 2 Raj. Rifles' next assignment was to capture the Knoll mountain feature in the Black Rock area, which is in the Drass sub-sector. It was here, that Major Acharya laid down his life in the highest traditions of the Indian Army on 29 June 1999. He was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, posthumously .
Making the way through narrow valley
The Leh-Batalik road is as notorious as the Srinagar-Kargil road. At its beginning lie staging areas, at its end fierce fighting and often, death. Jawans patrol the rugged slopes near Batalik. For them, there is little time for rest and little time to think, always poised on the edge of action.
Capt.Vijayant Thapar (Robin)
He Laid down for OUR BETTER TOMORROW
At the age of only 22
His Last Letter to his parents
AND AFTER THAT
HE CAME BACK HOME WITH TRI COLOR DRAPED
Jawans from the 2nd Rajputana Rifles, remember their 23 comrades who fell in the decisive battle for the Tololing Top. The battalion earned four Maha Vir Chakras, one of India 's highest medals for gallantry, three of them being awarded posthumously.
Captain (Dr.) Rajshree Gupta, Army Medical Corps (AMC), salutes the tricolour-draped coffin of her husband, Major Vivek Gupta of the 2nd Rajputana Rifles, who died fighting the enemies.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Smile
1. A day without sunshine is like night.
2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the hell happened?"
22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
23. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos.
Amazing Home Remedies
3. Avoid arguments with your partner about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.
6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you will be afraid to cough.
7. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you will forget about the toothache.
9. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.
10. Never pass up an opportunity to go to the bathroom.
11. If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You get another chance.
13. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.
Subject: Sam Makekshaw; what has been published in a PAKISTANI newspaper about him:
Subject: Sam Makekshaw; what has been published in a PAKISTANI newspaper about him:
Last week we saw a lot of mail activity expressing our anguish at the politicians disrespect to FM Sam Makekshaw. By contrast, see what has been published in a PAKISTANI newspaper about him:
SAM BAHADUR
SAM Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw was his full name by which he was rarely called, as he was known familiarly and affectionately by his men and officers and friends as Sam Bahadur.
Manekshaw was no ordinary run-of-the-mill man. Born in Amritsar in 1914, he died in Wellington, Ootacamund, in the Nilgiri Hills of South India at the age of 94. Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw, MC, was the second Indian soldier to be so honoured, with justification, with the highest rank that can be bestowed upon a soldier, the other being Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa, the first Indian to command the Indian army, friend and contemporary of our Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the first Pakistani to command the Pakistan army. (However, unlike Ayub, both Cariappa and Manekshaw were honoured for their military skills and prowess.)
Sam Bahadur became India's chief of army staff in 1969 and, as we in Pakistan must accept with heavy hearts, the highlight of his outstanding career was his resounding victory over the armed forces of Pakistan in 1971, when we lost East Pakistan to Bangladesh.
Anecdotes about the field marshal abound. His most famous remark, according to one obituary in the English press, was made on the eve of the outbreak of the December 1971 war when India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, asked him if he was ready for the fight. His reply came pat: 'I am always ready, sweetie.' He famously said that he could never bring himself to call Mrs Gandhi 'madam' because it reminded him of a bawdy house. His other well-known exchange with Mrs Gandhi was when she once questioned him about rumours that he was plotting a coup. He asked her if she would accept his resignation on grounds of mental instability.
Held in awe by India's politicians for his military professionalism, he was loved by the men of the army he led. I had the good fortune and honour of meeting him in Delhi, in 2001, when he was 87 years old, upright, with his moustaches bristling. I had heard much about him from my very good friend Lt Gen Attiqur Rahman who knew him from the days when they served in the British Indian Army and as young officers of the Fourth Frontier Force Regiment were sent to the Burma front.
In February 1942, they were together holding a bridge over the Sittang River when Sam nearly lost his life. After a night sharing a mackintosh in a bit of hollow ground, Sam was ordered to take his company down the road to investigate firing from the jungle. When Attiq later went off down the road, he saw Sam being carried on his orderly's back, unconscious, his face ashen. He asked the regimental doctor how badly he had been wounded and was told that he would probably be dead by the time he reached the other end of the bridge.
Later, whilst reorganising, he heard that Sam was in hospital at Pegu. He went to see him and it was obvious he was in terrible pain. He hung on to Attiq's hand, and whispering, asked him to leave his pistol so that he could shoot himself. Attiq told him not to be silly, that all would be well. As we know it was, but it was a close call. The surgeon attending to him almost gave up on the bullet-ridden body. The story goes that as he lay in hospital, an English general pinned his own military cross on to the chest of Captain Manekshaw as the medal could not be awarded posthumously. Attiq and Sam did not meet again until 1945 when Sam was one of his instructors at the Quetta Staff College.
Another good friend of Manekshaw from this side of the border was our Rangila Raja Gen Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan. At the time of partition Major Manekshaw and Major Yahya Khan were together on the staff of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. Sam owned a red James motorcycle which Yahya had always had an eye on. He offered to buy it, and did, for the princely sum of Rs1,000, which he promised to send over from Pakistan. Yahya, being Yahya, let it lapse. After the 1971 victory, Sam was heard to quip, 'Yahya never paid me the Rs1,000 for my motorbike, but now he has paid with half his country.'
When I met the field marshal I told him that Yahya had never forgotten the debt, but had never got round to it. I offered to pay back the Rs1,000 with interest, on his behalf. No, no, said the field marshal, Yahya was a good man and a good soldier, we served together. There was not one mean or corrupt bone in his body. Your politicians are as bad as ours. Yahya was condemned without being heard. After he was put under house arrest at the end of December 1971, up to his death in 1980, he clamoured unceasingly for an open trial. Why was he condemned unheard?
Sam was buried quietly in his home in Tamil Nadu, a modest affair rather than the grand funeral he should have had in the capital, Delhi. Last year his name was linked to bizarre allegations made by the son of President Gen Ziaul Haq, our 'exceedingly clever' politician Ejazul Haq, against an unnamed Indian brigadier who allegedly had sold Indian war plans to Pakistan. The slur lingered on and the prime minister, the army, navy and air force chiefs all stayed away from the field marshal's funeral.
Many were angered by this lack of respect shown to the nation's brave soldier and one website is devoted to the comments of Indian citizens on the reaction of their politicians:
http://churumuri.
As the editor writes, 'The death of the only Indian to be appointed field marshal when in active service has been remarkable for the warmth of the ordinary men and women who queued up to say 'thank you'…. It was also remarkable for the complete lack of grace and gratitude, civility and courtesy, decency and decorum on the part of the bold-faced names rapaciously grazing the lawns of power in Delhi and elsewhere, for the brain behind India's only decisive military victory.'
And a sentence which would have made Sam Bahadur chuckle: As he [Manekshaw] rightly surmised once: 'I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor, a gun from a howitzer, a guerrilla from a gorilla – although a great many of them in the past have resembled the latter'.
(This is from Dawn of Karachi)
CCTV captured crucial leads in Ahmedabad blasts
Thursday, July 31, 2008
CCTV captured crucial leads in Ahmedabad blasts
Close circuit television cameras installed at a Pune toll tax booth took snaps — a routine — of at least one of the drivers as he was passing through
Ahmedabad: In the biggest lead so far to emerge in the Gujarat terror attack, investigators have found out the photograph of a man who drove one of the four stolen cars that were used in spreading terror in Ahmedabad and Surat.
The cars were stolen from Navi Mumbai in the second week of July, and were driven down to the Gujarat cities through Pune.
Top intelligence officials, who did not want to be named, told HT that close circuit television cameras installed at a Pune toll tax booth took snaps — a routine — of at least one of the drivers as he was passing through.
Two of the stolen cars were used in Saturday’s serial blasts in Ahmedabad that killed more than 50 people. Two others were found abandoned in Surat the day after, packed with explosives.
The photographs have been passed on to police in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. A senior official said, along with the Intelligence Bureau, they have launched a massive manhunt to identify and trace the man.
A senior official in the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad confirmed that they had got the photographs of the car and the driver. But no investigator was willing to reveal how many of these stolen cars had been photographed. “If we are able to trace the man driving the car, we could get to the other members of the module,” the official said.
"Either this man is part of the terror module, and could even be the bomber, or he was given a contract to steal the cars and deliver it to someone," the official said. He said even if the driver had just stolen the car, he could lead the investigators to the people to whom he delivered the cars.
Investigations have further revealed that the e-mail ID used to send the terror mails to television channel minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts was created at 6.30 p.m. on the day of the blast. The e-mail was sent to television channels at 6.40 pm.
"This means, the person who sent the mails was present in the Navi Mumbai building for around 20 minutes during which he created the e-mail ID and sent the mails," the official said. This person used the Wi-fi connection of American national Kenneth Haywood.
It has also been revealed that the mail contents had been scanned and a PDF file made, which was sent to the person who finally e-mailed it to television channels on July 24.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1600695