India tests long-range nuclear-capable 'Agni-IV' missile

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Source: Times of India

BHUBANESHWAR: India on Tuesday sucessfully test fired Agni-IV missile, one of its longest range missiles, capable of carrying a one-tonne nuclear warhead deep inside China, officials said.

A Defence Research and Development Organisation spokesman said the Agni-IV missile was launched at 9:00am (0330 GMT) from a test site in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

"All the parameters have been met and it was a very successful test," DRDO spokesman Ravi Gupta said.

He said the nuclear-capable, two-stage missile which is powered by solid fuel was fired beyond the Bay of Bengal into the Indian Ocean. Agni means fire in Sanskrit.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-tests-long-range-nuclear-capable-Agni-IV-missile/articleshow/10737442.cms

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1. Well THAT should make Pakistan feel all warm and cuddly inside.

[Nihil]

2. The world is full of war-mongering tossers. (n/t)

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3. Unrecced.

Warmongers. :mad:

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4. Why unrec? It's impotent information. Unrec is not the equivalent of "like" on facebook.

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5. It's important, but ultmately, just mental pollution.

None of us here are going to stop the South Asian arms race.

Meanwhile, al-Jazeera recently reported that India is today the state with the most human slavery. I posted that report in GD: it got ONE response, and sank like a rock. I guess because it wasn't about anything important.

>>Bridal slaves
India has the world's largest number of slaves, among them an increasing number of women and girls sold into marriage.

India has one of the world's fastest growing economies. But the southwest Asian country also has the largest number of slaves in the world.

In the midst of widespread poverty, fueled by economic inequality and rampant corruption, a new form of slavery - bridal slavery - has flourished. Women and young girls are sold for as little as $120 to men who often burden them with strenuous labour and abuse them.

In a country where female children are sometimes considered a financial burden, the common practice of infanticide and gender-selective abortion has led to a shortfall in the number of women available for marriage - something made all the more problematic by high dowry costs. Experts say this has encouraged bride trafficking...<<

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/2011/10/2011101013102368710.html

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8. Nor I you with stories about modern human slavery.

nt

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10. None of us here are going to stop the South Asian slave trade.

None of us here are going to stop the South Asian infanticide practice.

See how that works?

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6. Does this mean the bombers are being loaded and warmed up for an attack against India?

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