In this world where people believe in homeopathy, Scientology and other such crap in this world, that argument is not going to find too many takers.

WRT catfish eating humans .... It's already happened ... Kali River goonch attacks

FTFA The sea level was 1400+ metres below the sea level ... that would be a hell of a tide

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as he's only replicating the operation of the machine and not its internal working, isn't he just reverse-engineering the machine? AFAIK reverse-engineering is legitimate in the eyes of the law.

You can download legit Indian and Pakistani music from Flyte which is a part of Flipkart (owned by Amazon)

If the (slightly inaccurate) result of one iteration is fed as the input of the next, wouldn't the results get even more inaccurate over time?

I don't see the article stating that the Agni was designed with submarine-launch capabilities anywhere. Wanna point it out to me?

... and every combat rifle designed by every Western country worked perfectly from the first attempt right?
* XM29 OICW (USA)
* XM8 (USA)
* Steyr ACR (Austria)
* H&K G11 (Germany)
* Armtech C30R (Austria)

Every manufacturer has to go through a learning curve before the products can compete against the best of the world. The only way to fail is to not try at all.

While the development of the Agni series did begin in 1983, the Agni-V launched yesterday is an evolved version of the Agni II. About as similar as the current-generation Porsches have with the original in 1963 :).
The Agni family can be divided into 3 generations
* Agni II (First into service)
* Agni I & III
* Agni IV & V - The Agni IV isn't meant to enter service but was a proving exercise for the technologies used on the Agni V

The Agni is a land-based missile and is expected to be launched from rail-based vehicles. The sub-launched missiles are the Sagarika (700 km range and tested successfully but not yet in service) and the K-4 (3500 km range which is under development and hasn't had any flight tests as yet)

India does not have any ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) in service yet. The first one - the Arihant was launched last year and is undergoing tests. All other submarines are either SSKs or SSNs

India unilaterally declared that it will not export any ballistic missile technology despite not being a member of the MTCR

Correction ... The F-20 Tigershark used the engine from the F/A-18 Hornet not the F-16 Falcon

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India-China tension
Chengdu J-10

The F-35 didn't have a chance ... the contest only allowed aircraft already in production and those willing to perform full technology transfer and production rights.
US law doesn't allow transfer of stealth technology. None of the F-35 partner countries are given access to this tech and production is limited to the US.

There are three in the pipeline

HAL Tejas

Sukhoi/HAL FGFA

HAL AMCA

While the Tejas is close to entering service, it is a lightweight aircraft, designed to be cheap (~$25M) and keep the numbers. This contest was for a medium-sized aircraft bringing in more capability and to be able to support the Su-30MKI which are the IAF's primary fighters.

The FGFA and AMCA are long-term projects which are not likely to enter service before the decade is out.