This book profiles the life and times of Marshal Arjan Singh, DFC, who was made the first ever Marshal of the Indian Air Force in recognition to his extraordinary services, on January 25, 2002.The first four chapters give an insight into the life of the Marshal who, inspite of having been a high profile public figure, yet has been a very very private person. He has always let his performance speak for him.

Sunny, a management graduate, is ambitious, witty, and impulsive. He is delighted on getting a job in a London-based trade finance company in Bombay. In the office at first sight, he fell in love with pretty office manager Sandra. Their love, passion, and chemistry are undeniable.He works diligently and gets quick promotions, unaware his job is on the other side of the law. Soon he gets embroiled in criminal cases that he never committed. He gets more convoluted with passing of day...

A popular motivational speaker once began a seminar where he was addressing around 200 people by holding up a 20 bill. “Who would like to have this 20 bill,” he asked.All 200 people raised their hands in affirmation.The speaker continued… “But first, let me do this.” He crumpled the bill up and addressed the crowd again, “Who still wants it?”He got the same response from everyone. “Well,” he went on, “What if I do this?” He dropped ...

Group Captain Ranbir Singh (Retd), born in 1935, was commissioned in the Transport Stream of the Flying Branch of Indian Air Force in January 1956. During his service career spanning over three decades, he has logged more than 5000 hours of flying in different types of aircrafts, and has extensively travelled in India and abroad. He was in active flying service during all the major operations since mid-fifties. He is a graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.He was the...

Through this twelve chaptered book the author highlights the evolution of the Armed Forces through the wars fought and, more importantly, the lessons which have not been learnt.The book covers the four major wars with Pakistan besides the operations taken for integration of states—Hyderabad Police Action, Integration of Junagarh and Liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu.It also analyses the blunders of the Sino-Indian Conflict and the Operation Pawan Sri Lankan Odyssey.All the operations covere...

Goats are the predominant domestic livestock, and certainly the predominant small ruminant, in most of Asia, Africa and the warmer parts of Europe. Important for meat, milk, fibre and leather production, their widescale production and husbandry allows many opportunities for the spread of disease between livestock and their keepers. Taking a One Health approach to the issue, this book provides clear, accurate and comprehensive coverage of the zoonotic diseases of goats. Including informatio...

Deep Singh wants out - out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything, his dad passes his evenings shouting at the television, and his brother, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die. So when Lily, a beautiful, older, and married, woman, shows him more than a flicker of attention, he falls heedlessly in love. It doesn’t help that Lily is an alcoholic, hates her husband,...

Providing well over 1,500 questions to test your knowledge of clinical farm animal medicine, the book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the topic before providing relevant multiple-choice questions. Covering clinical veterinary medicine for common livestock species, this book includes questions about: - clinical examination; - electrolyte balance and fluid therapy; - diseases by body sy...

This book presents proceedings from the XXIV DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics (HEP) Symposium 2020, held at the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Jatni, Odisha, India. The contributions cover a variety of topics in particle physics, astroparticle physics, cosmology and related areas from both experimental and theoretical perspectives, namely (1) Standard Model Physics, (2) Beyond Standard Model Physics, (3) Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics & QCD, (4) Neutrino Physics, (5) Par...