INSIDE RAW

Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is India's external intelligence agency. Its headquarters are on Lodhi Road in New Delhi.

Around the end of 1966 the concept of a separate foreign intelligence agency began to take shape. In 1968, after Indira Gandhi had taken over, it was decided that a full-fledged second security service was needed. R. N. Kao, then a deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau, submitted a blueprint for the new agency. Thus the India's first foreign intelligence agency named as the Research and Analysis Wing or R&AW. R&AW has been organized on the lines of the CIA[13]. Most of the occupants have been experts on either Pakistan or China. They also have the benefit of training in either US or the UK, and more recently in Israel.

Functions of R&AWCollection of information:

R&AW obtains information critical to Indian strategic interests. Both overt and covert means are adopted.
Classification of information: Data is sifted through, classified as appropriate, and filed with the assistance of the computer network in the 13-story bombproof building situated at Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
Aggressive intelligence: The primary mission of R&AW includes aggressive intelligence which is comprised of espionage, psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, and promoting insurgency in enemy locations.
Counter intelligence: R&AW has a dedicated section which spies against enemy's intelligence collection oganizations. With unscrupulous enemy agencies abounding in Indian neighbourhood, this is the second most important function of R&AW. However due to failure of R&AW in containing high profile defections, major portions of Counter intelligence operations have been handed to IB.

Training of R&AW AgentsRecruitment Initially, many candidates are taken from the police and other services. Later R&AW began directly recruiting graduates from universities. Today R&AW has its own service cadre, the Research and Analysis Service (RAS) to absorb talent. The criteria for selection are fairly stringent.

Extensive Training:

• Technical jargon and classification of information are taught.
  
• Case studies of other agencies like CIA, KGB, Chinese Secret Agency and ISI are presented for study.
  
• The inductee is also taught that intelligence organisations do not identify who is friend and who is foe, the country's foreign policy does.Given firsthand experience of what it was to be out in the figurative cold, conducting clandestine operations.
  
• Instructed to avoid capture and, if caught, how to face interrogation.
  
• Learns the art of reconnoiter, making contacts, and, the numerous skills of operating an intelligence mission.
  
• Exhaustive training in the art of self-defense, an introduction to martial arts and the use of technical espionage devices.
  
• Drilled in various administrative disciplines so that he could take his place in the foreign missions without arousing suspicion.
  
• He is now ready to operate under the cover of an Embassy to gather information, set up his own network of informers, moles or operatives as the task may require.

References:Wikipedia,FAS.

My Movie Collection:FIGHT CLUB

FIGHT CLUB is 100% Entertainment.

One might really cant get through the movie at first but at end it was a real of much more surpise than expected,especially, a stunning performance by Prit and Edward.It is a gruesome story about two young men creating a club with rules just for pure radical street fight which is thought to be a out of emotional ride and this leads to more and more men into the club thus creating group of busted guys performing novel crimes leading to "out of blue " end.Its a worth watching movie.

Its talks but virtual human realtion ship,street boxing,stress buster,psyche,Crime,self proclaimed leadership and finally it is of a real Entertainment.

INDIA OUT OF WORLD CUP

Many of our cheering mouths went to silence as Srilanka won India shattering the dreams of billion indian fans...Lets wait for another four years :(

"When is the Cricket World Cup going to be won by India?"

As Friday night turned into Saturday morning in India, the hopes of more than a billion cricket fans to see their team lift the World Cup for the second time almost came to an end with Sri Lanka winning the Group B match at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain by 69 runs to all but end the journey of the Men in Blue in the tournament.
Chasing a fairly competitive target of 255 in 50 overs after skipper Rahul Dravid chose to field first, the Indian team were bowled out for only 185 runs in 43.3 overs for their worst performance in the World cup since the 1979 tournament.
In the 1979 World Cup they had failed to win even one match.
And now their only chance of making it to the round of Super 8 is if (and that is a big if) Bermuda beat Bangladesh by a massive margin in the final group match on Sunday, which going by the spate of upsets in the tournament does not look impossible.
The big difference between the two teams was the attitude of the batsmen when the going was tough in the middle.
While the Lankan top order also failed but their middle and lower order rose to the occasion and put on 254/6 on the board in their allotted quota of 50 overs which in the end proved to be too much for the famed Indian batting line-up that had three batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs.

My Movie Collection:TAXI DRIVER

"Some day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Robert DeNiro's performance in Taxi Driver as Travis is one of the best I have ever seen. DeNiro does every pause, smirk, and stare in exactly the right time. He transformed a despicable and psychotic character into a lonely and desperate man, who the audience can relate and understand. His scenes talking to himself in the mirror is entertaining, at the same time, terrifying.
-Johnpaulz(IMDB.com)

The great aspect I like in this movie is the touching storyline about a mentally unstable youth(Robert De Niro) called by name Travis a taxi driver who as been noted for his disgusting and unruly behaviour.

Intially Travis falls in love with a beautiful gal Betsy but soon there relationship broke up as Betsy mistook Travis in one occasion and ignored him, but Travis could'nt resist himself without Betsy and was totally heart broken.
Once on his way home he met a 12 year old gal (Jodi Foster) abducted and subjected to prostitution illegaly thus this incident makes travis to go violent towards pimps and thus he finds the way to rescue her.....as of climax everybody, including media makes Travis as a National figure for rescuing a gal from such scum and making Betsy brokenhearted.

If u get a chance dont miss it ,especially the scene with Betsy at the end is excellent.

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A voluntarily funded agency, UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors. Its programmes emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children.

UNICEF is currently focused on 5 primary priorities:

• Child Survival and Development
• Basic Education and Gender Equality (including girls' education]),
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Beslan Massacre

At 09:30 local time on September 1, a Chechen terrorist group of approximately thirty-two armed attackers arrived at a school in Beslan Russia, wearing black ski masks and in some cases wearing explosive belts. At first, some mistook the attackers for Russian forces practicing a security drill. However, the attackers soon demonstrated that they were serious and started to shoot in the air and forced everybody into the school. During the initial chaos, about fifty people managed to flee to safety and alert authorities.

The attackers herded the hostages into the school gymnasium, and stripped the hostages of any means of outside communication. One of the female terrorists threatened the hostages that if she found a single mobile phone on anyone, that person and three more people near him or her would be killed. Immediately after having gathered all the hostages in the gym, the attackers set about killing about twenty of the adult male hostages, reportedly the strongest in the group.The attackers forced other hostages to throw their bodies out of the building and set some children to wash the blood off the floor.

The attackers mined the gymnasium and the rest of the building with improvised explosive devices, and surrounded it with tripwires . In a further bid to deter rescue attempts, they threatened to kill fifty hostages for every one of their own members killed by the police, and to kill twenty hostages for every gunman injured. They also threatened to blow up the school if government forces attacked.

The Russian government initially said that it would not use force to rescue the hostages, and negotiations towards a peaceful resolution took place on the first and second days, led by Leonid Roshal, a pediatrician whom the hostage takers had reportedly asked for by name; for Roshal had helped negotiate the release of children in the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege.
Nearly 30 hours into the siege, survivors say the terrorists were popping pills to stay awake, and they were starting to crack.

Day 2
On September 2, 2004, negotiations between Roshal and the hostage-takers proved unsuccessful, and they refused to allow food, water, and medicines to be taken in for the hostages or for the bodies of the dead to be removed from in front of the school.

On day two,many of the young children started to succumb to being denied food and water and being forced to stand up for long periods in the tightly packed and hot gym. Many fainted and the parents feared they would start to die. Occasionally, the terrorists took out some of the unconscious children, and poured water on their heads before returning them to the gym. Reportedly, some resorted to drinking their own urine and extracting water from plants. Later in the day, women and men also started to faint from fatigue and thirst. When the bombs started to go off, many of the surviving children were so fatigued they were barely able to flee from the carnage.

In the afternoon, the gunmen agreed to release 26 nursing women and their infants following their negotiations with former Ingushetia President Ruslan Aushev, to whom they also handed a nursing infant whose mother refused to leave the school because of her other children. About a dozen of those mothers released were allowed by the terrorists to take only one child and forced to leave behind other children (a number of which were killed).

At around 15:30, two rocket propelled grenade (RPGs) were fired by the hostage-takers at security forces outside the school, approximately ten minutes apart;[16] one set a police car ablaze. As the day and night wore on, the combination of stress and sleep deprivation—and possibly drug withdrawal made the terrorists increasingly hysterical and unpredictable. The crying of the children irritated them, and on several occasions children and their mothers were threatened that if they didn't stop crying they'd be shot.

Day 3

Around 13:04 on September 3, 2004, the hostage-takers agreed to allow Emergency Ministry servicemen to remove bodies from the school grounds. However, when the servicemen approached the school, the hostage-takers opened fire, and explosions were heard from the gymnasium. Two of the servicemen were killed, while the rest took cover. Part of the gymnasium wall was demolished by the explosions, allowing a group of about thirty hostages to escape, though a number were killed when the hostage-takers fired at them and as a result of crossfire from the hostage-takers and army.

It was at this point that Russian Special Forces fired the Shmel RPO flamethrowers at the school's roof; a total of nine empty disposable tubes were later found on the rooftops of the nearby apartment blocks. A chaotic battle broke out as the Special Forces sought to enter the school and cover the escape of the hostages. The task force members blew further holes in walls to allow hostages to escape.
In addition to the Special Forces, army and Interior Ministry troops engaged, there were Mi-24 Hind and Mi-8 Hip gunships, and at least one tank , as well as several BTR armoured personnel carriers.

Many local civilians also joined in the battle, having brought along their own weapons. Afterwards, the Russian government defended the use of tanks and other heavy weaponry, arguing that it was used after surviving hostages escaped from the school. However, this contradicts the eyewitness accounts, as many hostages were seriously wounded and could not possibly escape by themselves.

The attack was followed by two or more large explosions, totally destroying the gym and setting much of the building on fire.

By 15:00, two hours after the assault began, Russian troops claimed control of most of the school. However, fighting was still continuing in the grounds as evening fell, and three hostage-takers were still located in the basement along with a number of hostages. They were eventually killed, along with the hostages they were holding.

An estimated 344 civilians, mostly hostages, were killed during the crisis; at least 19 Russian servicemen were killed as well, including eleven OSNAZ fighters.
Shortly after September 3, 2004, Russian official sources stated that the attackers were part of an international group led by Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev and included a number of Arabs with contact to al-Qaeda.

“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn”
-Robert Bruns