Not just in IIT this is the truth anywhere and everywhere in India.
Only Caste discrimination prevalent in India now is the one practiced officially by the State.
🇫🇷🇰🇷 Absolutely beautiful. It is reported that the South Korean Air Force's F-35As and the French Air and Space Force's Rafales conducted joint operations in South Korea for the first time in three years.
South Korea deployed F-35A, F-15K, KF-16, and FA-50 along with a KC-330 tanker, while France deployed Rafale fighters and an A-330 tanker.
@India_Policy How?
R&D budget is meagre. Risk taking capability is non-existent in civil leadership. Screwdrivergiri doesn't help to build capabilities. Moreover reservation ensures we will always have some sort of mediocrity.
Top 3 - US, China, EU. We don't stand a chance.
The Most Cursed/Blessed Guns in Vietnam
The Hanoi Weapon Museum houses some of the most exotic firearms ever to make their way into Vietnam. But some are definitely more unique than others.. Here are my top 4 most bizarre guns in their collection:
The 9/11 That Never Happened
On Christmas Day in 1974, an Air India Boeing 747 was flying towards Rome with 155 people on board when a passenger forced his way into the cockpit.
His name was Josef Homolov. He was carrying a small knife and had managed to get dangerously close to the controls of the aircraft. What began as a hijacking quickly became something far more serious. Homolov threatened to destroy the aircraft and, according to the crew’s account, threatened to crash it into Rome.
This was almost three decades before the world would witness the horrifying spectacle of passenger aircraft being deliberately turned into weapons.
The Air India crew had no reinforced cockpit door to protect them. There were no post-9/11 security procedures, no sophisticated anti-hijacking systems and no established playbook for dealing with someone who might deliberately crash a jumbo jet into a city.
There was simply the crew and their training.
Captain A. M. Kapur kept his composure and continued to fly the aircraft while attempting to manage the hijacker and buy time. The aircraft circled Rome as the tense situation continued.
Then the crew saw an opportunity.
Co-pilot B. S. Sandhu and flight engineer K. Das Gupta joined Kapur in overpowering Homolov. They managed to disarm and restrain him, bringing the hijacking to an end. The Boeing 747 landed safely at Rome.
All 155 people survived.
At the time, newspapers reported the dramatic episode as another successful thwarting of a hijacking. One contemporary headline captured it simply: “Crew Foils Hijacker in Jumbo Jet Over Italy.” Today, however, the story has a very different resonance.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 fundamentally changed aviation. They demonstrated to the world that a hijacked airliner could be deliberately used as a weapon against a city. Cockpit security was transformed almost overnight, and the entire philosophy of aviation security changed.
But the Air India crew had confronted a frightening version of that possibility 27 years earlier.
It is important not to equate the two incidents. The circumstances, motivations and scale were completely different. Homolov was not carrying out an organised terrorist operation comparable to 9/11.
Yet the central danger was remarkably similar: a hijacked large passenger aircraft, an attacker threatening deliberate destruction, and a major city potentially in the aircraft’s path.And the outcome could have been very different.
A Boeing 747 was an enormous aircraft for its time, carrying a huge quantity of fuel and capable of causing catastrophic destruction if deliberately crashed into a densely populated area.
Instead, it landed safely.
The reason was remarkably simple: the cockpit crew never surrendered control.
Captain Kapur kept his nerve. Sandhu and Das Gupta took the enormous personal risk of physically confronting the hijacker when the opportunity arose. They were doing what generations of airline crews have always been trained to do—protect the aircraft and the people entrusted to them.
There is something especially poignant about the date. While families around the world were celebrating Christmas, three Air India crew members were fighting to prevent a disaster over one of Europe’s great cities.
Their story has largely faded from public memory.
It shouldn’t have.
@AirIndia_News
@smitaprakash @Mindflayer69 Problem is that even if we build the toilets these emboldened thugs will still take a leak on the road and search for an opportunity to beat someone to death over any minor issue.
@HeartTouching43@AchryConfucious Shut up please. There's no covering up for this shit.
Infra is pathetic. It could be anyone. You, me, your father or my father, anyone...