Five surgeons are discussing the types of people they like to operate on.
The first surgeon says: "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when open them up, everything inside is numbered."
The second responds: "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour-coded."
The third surgeon says: "No, I really think librarians are the best; Everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know I like engineers; Those guys always understand if you have a few parts left over."
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You`re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There`s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine. Plus, the head and the ass are interchangeable." ...

God was in the process of creating the universe.

And he was explaining to his subordinates

`Look everything should be in balance.

For example, after every 10 deer there should be a lion.

Look here my fellow angels, here is the country of the United States .

I have blessed them with prosperity and money. But at the same time I have given them insecurity and tension....

And here is Africa . I have given them beautiful nature. But at the same time, I have given them climatic extremes.

And here is South America . I have given them lots of forests. But at the same time, I have given them lesser land so that they would have to cut off the forests...

So you see fellows, everything should be in balance.

One of the angels asked...

`God, what is this extremely beautiful country here?`

God said........ `Ahah...that is the crown piece of all. ` INDIA `,

My most precious creation.

It has understanding and friendly People.

Sparkling streams and serene mountains.

A culture which speaks of the great tradition that they live. Technologically brilliant and with a heart of gold.....

The angel was quite surprised:

`But god you said everything should be in balance.`

God replied –






`Look at the neighbors, I gave them.`
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Associated Press A Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India`s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said, a blow to officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani terrorists. As investigators sought to unravel the attack on Mumbai, stepping up questioning of the lone captured gunman, airports across India were put on high alert amid fresh warnings that terrorists planned to hijack an aircraft. Also Thursday, police said there were signs that some of the six victims of the attack on a Jewish center may have been tortured. "The victims were strangled," said Rakesh Maria, a senior Mumbai police official. "There were injuries noticed on the bodies that were not from firing." Members of an Israeli rescue group which had a team in Mumbai said it was impossible to tell if the bodies had been abused, however, because no autopsies were conducted in accordance with Jewish tradition. The surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, 21, told interrogators he had been sent by the banned Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba and identified two of the plot`s masterminds, according to two Indian government officials familiar with the inquiry. Lashkar, outlawed by Pakistan in 2002, has been deemed by the US a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaeda. Kasab told police that one of them, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar`s operations chief, recruited him for the attack, and the assailants called another senior leader, Yusuf Muzammil, on a satellite phone after hijacking an Indian vessel en route to Mumbai. The information sent investigators back to another reputed Lashkar operative, Faheem Ansari, who they hope could be key in pulling together different strands of the investigation. Ansari, an Indian national, was arrested in February carrying hand-drawn sketches of hotels, the train terminal and other sites that were later attacked in Mumbai, said Amitabh Yash, director of the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police. During his interrogation, Ansari also named Muzammil as his handler in Pakistan, adding that he trained in a Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad — the same area where Kasab said he was trained, a senior police officer involved in the investigation said. In Pakistan, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters he had no information on Lakhvi or Muzammil but that authorities would check. According to the US Treasury Department, Lahkvi has directed Lashkar operations in Chechnya, Bosnia, Southeast Asia, training members to carry out suicide bombings and attack populated areas. In 2004, he sent operatives and funds to attack US forces in Iraq. Ansari "told us about a planned Lashkar attack on Bombay, on southern Bombay", said Yash, referring to Mumbai by its previous name. "He gave us eight or nine specific locations where the attack would be carried out," he said, adding that Ansari had detailed sketches of the places and escape routes from the sites. Ansari said he carried out the reconnaissance in the fall of 2007, and that it also included the US consulate, the Bombay stock exchange and other Mumbai sites that were not attacked. Ansari is now in Indian custody, according to Yash. It was unclear if he was being questioned again, but Maria said they were working to determine if Ansari played a role in how the attackers "got such intricate knowledge of the sites". Mumbai plot revealed 10 months ago Indian authorities have faced a torrent of criticism about missed warnings and botched intelligence, and revelations that Ansari disclosed details of the Mumbai plot 10 months ago will be added to the list. Linking an Indian national to the plot also undermines India`s assertion that Pakistan is solely responsible. Yash said during extensive interrogations Ansari confessed to scouting Mumbai, arranging a safe-house there for Lashkar militants and provided details on his involvement in the group. "We got everything out of him, whatever he knew," he said. Ansari linked up with Lashkar while working at a printing press in Dubai. He was taken by sea to Pakistan to the Lashkar camp in Muzaffarabad and received a false Pakistani passport and citizenship papers, which police recovered when he was arrested. In 2007, Ansari said, he traveled to Katmandu, Nepal, and then crossed back into India and settled in Mumbai, where he conducted reconnaissance for a future attack, Yash said. He was arrested on February 10 in the northern city of Rampur after suspected Muslim militants attacked a police camp, killing eight constables. He said he was there to collect weapons to bring to Mumbai for a future attack. ...

HK65 But whatever said & done.... Now whether Unitech or any other realty scrips wont go up & up in a straight line..... Sentiments have really turned upside down..... And I have learnt one thing that SENTIMENTS ALWAYS holds an UPPER HAND among FUNDAMENTALS & Technicals etc. But I am also sure that in the long run.... say in 1.5 to 3 years time ..... All these stocks will DEFINATELY CROSS its previous highs & wud ALSO go much much beyond those HIGHER PEAK LEVELS, as I PERSONALLY think & PRESUME that REALTY PRICES in INDIA in the LONGER TERM , say by 2011 will again be at much higher levels.... Any property history wud foretell U that REALTY PRICES have ALWAYS RISEN in the long term & even gone further up than their previous highs.... One more reason I think is that this SECTOR is highly under-owned, in terms of its equities, by any group of people..... ALSO, foreign funds whenever they will come in, will come in FIRST into this sector & also DIRECTLY into REAL ESTATE..... I think the begginning to all this will be SECOND HALF of 2009, when the seeds of INVESTMENTS wud be bowed & fresh start all over again..... cheers as always pranky!! . ...

Obama has instigated that India has every right to protect itself from mindless terrorism unleashed upon it. As Pakistan too is armed with Nuclear technology, though stolen from North Korea, India is not able to go in for a full fledge war. However those who value democracy will understand, terrorism has no religion and no one is secure unless it is bridled. thanks....

The three-day-long terror strike on the country’s financial capital was devastating in terms of its reach and impact. It has left Corporate India badly shaken and the elites numb. It is no more about bombs being thrown at bus stations or trains getting blasted. It is no longer about only Nagpada or Govindpuri residents losing limbs and lives. Terror has now climbed up the value chain. As the new age entrepreneur Kiran Majumdar Shaw told a Bangalore newspaper, “So far, the terrorists targeted common people. Now the society’s elite, the business sector, is the target. What happened in Mumbai is a loud wake-up call for all of us to do something to protect ourselves.” Corporate India did not bat an eyelid when Mumbai train blasts took place, or when Sarojini Nagar was burning on a Diwali day, or Hyderabad was weeping two years before. But today, every corporate captain is angry, and so are the celebrities who people Page 3 of newspapers, due largely because the attacks on the three top hotels were directly aimed at those who frequent these places, for business or pleasure (contrast this with the scant coverage of the carnage at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, for example, where commoners were involved). All the same, the bleeding-heart liberals would be back to their routine ways after a few days. They will lament that the captured terrorist has not been given his favourite food and not allowed to watch TV or use his cell phone; they will say his human rights are violated. Just wait for the chorus. Of course, this time it will be between Page 3 and the jholawalas (activists) and that should be an interesting match to watch, but that’s another story. In the last ten years, not a single session of any seminar sponsored by the CII or Ficci or business/ general journals has focused on terrorism. When this writer once broached the importance of talking about it, a senior business captain said it is for the government to deal with. Many of those seminars gave importance to Musharraf and now Zardari, as if they are going to provide any solution when they are a part of the problem. Now, at least, terrorism is being realised as a problem facing the country. Let us summarise what the real situation is and corporate sector should do if we are serious in fighting terrorism on our soil. 1. Recognise and treat Pakistan as a terrorist state. The state policy of Pakistan is terrorism and their single-point programme is to destroy India. This needs to be internalised by every business baron including the owners of media. 2. Now, the elite of Pakistan are more angry, since India is growing at 7% and they are given CCC rating and stiff conditions for borrowing from IMF. Many an academic from that country, who I have met in global conferences, has openly lamented that nobody talks about Indo-Pak relations anymore, but only Indo-China or Indo-American, etc. They want to be equal but they are in deep abyss 3. Pakistan is the only territory in the world where an army has a whole country under its control. This is an important issue since studies have found that a large number of corporates in Pakistan are ultimately owned by the Fauji Foundation (FF), Army Welfare Trust (AWT) Bahria Foundation (BF), Shaheen Foundation (SF) all owned by different wings of armed forces (See paper presented by Dr Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha on “Power, Perks, Prestige And Privileges: Military’s Economic Activities In Pakistan” in The International Conference on Soldiers in Business—Military as an Economic Actor; Jakarta, October 17-19, 2000). Hence, do not try to think of Pakistan without its army, irrespective of who rules that country temporarily and nominally. At least 70% of the market capitalisation of the Karachi stock exchange is owned by the army and related groups. 4. There are three groups in India, who are obsessed with friendship with Pakistan. One is the oldies born in that part before partition and who are nostalgic about the Lahore havelis, halwas and mujras. The second is the Bollywood and other assorted groups, who look at it as a big market. The Dawood gang has financed enough of these useful idiots. The third is the candle light holding bleeding heart liberals (BHLs) who cannot imagine India doing well without its younger brother taken care. All three have been proved wrong hundreds of times, but they are also opinion makers. Shun them, avoid them and ridicule them. conti...............

Dear K.N.Pillai16968, Plz. read my post to dear subasu on the same subject. Yes ur understanding is right there r 2 separate agencies in india each with a differant job to handle on paper. SPG - Special protection group is designed specifically for security of V IPs, V V IPs, V V V IPs, V V V V IPs, V V V V V IPs.............. NSG - National Security Guards - To counter terrorist attacks & plane Hijacks.... In case of NSG, I put it as POLITICIANS Security Guards (PSG), just to show my anger like all of u but with a humorous note. Thanks Ashal...

Dear Pranky & all fellow boarders who r jumping from there seats as if they have find a magical tool in th form of 49-O, My dear friends, the info posted is partly right & partly wrong. Here it is - The right Part - Yes Section 49-O does exists but it`s merely for exercising ur denial vote means u r voting for none of the candidates contesting the election. the wrong part - All the remaining story, the 50% 49-O & ....... All this is merely a proposal from Election commission of India & it`s yet not be declared an ACT by Parliament (Read our politicians). Even in case of EVMs (Electronic Voting machines) exercising 49-O is not possible, earlier in days of ballot paper, there was provision to keep ballots under 49-O, but now a days under EVMs there is no mechenism to collect 49-O. for a detail on this matter plz. go thru my earlier post replied to Radhika in which i have posted a link to read all the info on 49-O. Thanks Ashal...

Dear subasu, First of all thanks from my side for sharing ur views with me. My Dear Friend, it`s for ur info, I`m already aware about the differance of NSG (National Security Guards) & SPG (Special Protection Group). Plz. read my messages on both Teams(NSG & SPG). Specially the message related to terming NSG as PSG. It was a humorous message which i think u totally missed. Here i mean u missed the humorous content by calling the National Security Gurads (NSG) as Politician Security Guards (PSG). I hope my position is clear to u now. keep posting ur messages. Thanks Ashal...