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Kanchan Gupta
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Huge win for #India's scientists and technologists at DRDO. Successful anti-satellite (ASAT) missile system test. A low earth orbit satellite is targeted and destroyed. After #US, #Russia and #China, India fourth country to acquire this space capability. #MissionShakti
A quantum leap forward into the 21st century. Space is the future and #India is there. #MissionShakti is no less tectonic than #OperationShakti -- proud to be Indian.
Those asking whether #MissionShakti merited address to the nation by PM @narendramodi : Elections come and go, national achievements are forever. This is a big day for #India , a very big day.
After #India's successful Mars mission #Mangalyaan on 24 September 2014, the Americans mocked us. On 27 March 2019 India equals #US (and #China and #Russia) in ASAT spacewarfare capability. #MissionShakti
Those asking what's so great since #India had ASAT technology since 2012.
It's only now that the tech has been tested successfully. Sniffing at #MissionShakti is like mocking at #Balakot Our forces were ready to strike terror camps, but it's only now they were given a free hand.
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Problem is we expect too much from the world and do too little to stand up for our national interest. #China will never allow UNSC sanctions on #Pakistan-sponsored terror groups. Nor will Beijing allow New Delhi to join NSG. Expecting China to stand by #India is outright stupid.
As a nation we have always sought shoulders to cry on and shoot from. We think we are being clever. We aren't. We are what we are: Willing to strike but mortally scared to wound. This happens when we let a circus called #Lebu Media with its #LeLi Commentariat influence policy.
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Let's get a few things straight.
Terrorism is not an act of 'cowardice' or 'desperation'. It is an act of cold-blooded terror. Politicians who keep repeating the same hackneyed lines are basically trying to avoid responsibility by disowning failure to crush terrorism. #Pulwama 1
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Jammu & Kashmir is effectively under Central rule. Today's suicide bombing resulting in horrific deaths of jawans indicates an abysmal failure of intelligence agencies. Responsibility devolves on Modi Sarkar. Bluster cannot hide this fact. #Pulwama 3
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Kanchan Gupta
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Pending court cases in #India

Supreme Court 57,346
High Courts 47,19,483
Lower courts 2,96,93,988
Total pending 3,44,70,817

[As on 28.01.19.] #Judiciary #Justice #ConstitutionalMorality
It will take 324 years for lower courts in #India to deal with the case pile-up. #Judiciary #Justice #ConstitutionalMorality
Details of 57,346 cases pending in the Supreme Court of #India. #Judiciary #Justice #ConstitutionalMorality
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#MissionShakti - India's anti-satellite missile test - where we identify the satellite used during the test as well as address the multi-national meeting going on in Geneva on Militarization of Space & India's pre-emptive test to thwart any possible bans.
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/1 Long thread with what we know so far about today's Indian #ASAT test, the #spacedebris #spacepolicy and #spacelaw implications, and the possible role of commercial space in enforcing norms
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