June 13, 1997
PATNA, June 12: Normal life came to a grinding halt in the state on the first day of the 48-hour Bihar bandh called by the 15-Left and demo...
ANKARA, June 12: Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller's True Path Party will quit Turkey's Islamist-led Government unless Prime Minister Necmettin...
June 12, 1997
LONDON, June 11: Indian tennis ace Leander Paes fought tooth and nail as his wont but failed to stop third seed Goran Ivanisevic from vanqu...
June 11, 1997
FREETOWN, June 10: In the wake of the remark by UN permanent representative of Sierra Leone that the situation in the country is deteriorat...
June 10, 1997
LYONS, June 9: World champions Brazil and Italy, World Cup winners seven times between them, served up a feast of football as they drew 3-3...
June 9, 1997
LONDON, JUNE 8: Corrupt British Members of Parliament will face up to seven years in jail under tough new proposals to be announced on Mond...
June 8, 1997
Gordon Brown, the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer, by refusing to reveal anything about himself but his politics, has inadvertently...
June 7, 1997
SYDNEY, June 6: Media magnate Kerry Packer has outraged Australian cricket fans including Prime Minister John Howard by refusing to let the...
June 5, 1997
HONG KONG, June 4: Hong Kong recalled Beijing's bloody 1989 anti-democracy crackdown today, with some voicing doubt that they would still b...
TAIPEI, June 4: Taiwan is getting increasingly worried as the date of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule - July 1 - comes near.But there is...
BRIDGETOWN: Floyd Reifer, the leading batsman in this year's Red Stripe Cup, was named in the Windies 13-man squad for the one-off One-Day ...
June 4, 1997
Hyderabad to hostHYDERABAD: India, Pakistan and New Zealand will figure in the triangular cricket series for the Siyaram's Cup to be held h...
AGARTALA, June 3: The Tripura Government has issued a circular to its employees instructing them not to maintain any link with the undergro...
June 3, 1997
KABUL, June 2: The Taliban army, using artillery, rockets and mortars, drove back the advancing Shiite army to roughly 70 km from Kabul on ...
June 1, 1997
ATHENS: The International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) announced today that it is suspending three US athletes for taking banned sub...
GLASGOW, May 31: Denmark's Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen will meet China's Sun Jun in the World Badminton Championships semi-final after beating I...
May 31, 1997
PARIS, May 30: `Bad boy' Jeff Tarango lost his second round French Open singles match and then was snubbed by his rival, Thomas Muster. But...
May 30, 1997
Uefa backs JohanssonMUNICH: Uefa's executive committee has reaffirmed its support for Lennart Johansson's candidacy for the powerful post o...
May 29, 1997
SYDNEY: Out-of-form captain Mark Taylor is becoming a luxury Australia cannot afford to carry in next week's first Ashes Test against Engla...
PARIS, May 28: World number-one Pete Sampras produced one of his best-ever performances on a clay court at the French Open here today to de...
NEW DELHI, May 28: Delhi High Court today perused the post-mortem report of Dr Surendra Tanwar and observed that it raised several question...
May 28, 1997
NEW DELHI, May 27: The Centre and the BJP-BSP government in Uttar Pradesh appeared to be on a collision course today with no response from ...
HYDERABAD, May 27: CPI general secretary A B Bardhan on Monday said the Left parties are firm on opposing the hike in oil prices when the i...
NEW DELHI, May 27: The Delhi High Court today asked the city police to produce tomorrow its log book showing the route taken by the Prime M...
NEW DELHI, May 27: In A significant development, President Shanker Dayal Sharma has turned down a CBI request for prosecuting Union Ministe...
