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Jai Ho Vijay gets back relics of Mahatma

Mahatma Gandhi's five daily used artciles now the relics of past - metallic round eye glasses, a pair of sandals, pocket watch of 1910, a bowl and plate ultimately went under the hammer in New York: Vijay Mallaya Captain of Indian industry famous liquor baron Chairman Kingfisher bidded for USD 1.8 million after many hours of twist to the story of auction being put off and on the Great drama.However the sale in favour of India now to take two weeks to finalise as the owner of Gandhi's prized memorabilia, James Otis had announced outside the Antiquorum Auctioneers auction house that he has decided not to sell the items in the light of controversy but ultimately called by the auctioner for his reasons "The items would be kept with the Auctioneer for two weeks to resolve any claims," a spokesperson for Antiquorum Auctioneers said. Father of Nation who worked for millions of people tirelessly to bring amity and unity to India sub-continent his daily needs articles use

Brahmos missile hit its range 290-Km

2009-03-04 10:59:24 - Jaisalmer:On Second attempt today,the first test of the Indo-Russian joint venture missile was carried out on January 20 when after a successful take off, it deviated from its course mid-way and failed to hit the target,officials said that a "defect" in the software of the homing device of the missile, had been rectified leading to its successful test said DRDO oficial: Today Brahmos of 290 KM was successfully test launched at a firing range in Pokhran in Rajasthan desert developed with the assitance of Russia's NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russian scientists . BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited was established in India as a Joint Venture through an Inter-Governmental Agreement between India and Russia signed in February 1998. The acronym BrahMos is perceived as the confluence of two great nations represented by two great rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moscow of Russia. Company BrahMos endeavours to design, develop, manufacture and market the Sup