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October 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 21: The Vajpayee Government seems to have decided to put the contentious ``foreigner'' issue on the backburner while going...
Fri, Oct 22, 1999
October 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 19: By assuming the crucial office of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and retaining the Amethi seat instead of B...
Wed, Oct 20, 1999
October 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 19: By assuming the crucial office of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and retaining the Amethi seat instead of B...
Wed, Oct 20, 1999
October 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: Knives are out for the old guard in the Congress as Sonia loyalists closed ranks behind her today to shield her from an...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: Knives are out for the old guard in the Congress as Sonia loyalists closed ranks behind her today to shield her from an...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 6: After a six-month long faceoff between the BJP and the Congress, stability remains an urban middle-class pipedream as t...
Thu, Oct 07, 1999
September 29, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 28: The United States has quietly begun the spadework for President Bill Clinton's proposed visit to the subcontinent ear...
Wed, Sep 29, 1999
September 22, 1999 00:00 IST
SAMBHAL, SEPT 21: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accused the BJP Governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of deliberately cr...
Wed, Sep 22, 1999
September 19, 1999 00:00 IST
The last time BJP spokesman Arun Jaitley, 46, faced his Congress counterpart, Kapil Sibal, 51, on television, the show sizzled with so mu...
Sun, Sep 19, 1999
September 09, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 8: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will kick off her campaign in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh from Amethi where she...
Thu, Sep 09, 1999
September 05, 1999 00:00 IST
PM and precedentPrime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's appearance in Bellary to campaign for Sushma against Sonia Gandhi has taken the Con...
Sun, Sep 05, 1999
August 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 14: With the country in the thick of its thirteenth general election, Independence Day cannot but be different this year. ...
Sun, Aug 15, 1999
August 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: The Congress is at war with itself over the proposed tie-up with fading Jat leader Ajit Singh in western Uttar Prad...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 08, 1999 00:00 IST
Blow below the beltIt's not like ex-Railway Minister Nitish Kumar to be catty. So newshounds were quite surprised last week when he bared...
Sun, Aug 08, 1999
August 01, 1999 00:00 IST
Uma's youthful tantrumsPoor Uma Bharati. She is learning the hard way that babudom is made of sterner stuff than her party bosses. Her su...
Sun, Aug 01, 1999
July 29, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 28: As the day of reckoning draws near, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is grappling with her biggest dilemma yet: To con...
Thu, Jul 29, 1999
July 24, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 23: The core group, drawn from the National Security Advisory Board, which has been advising the Government on the Kargil...
Sat, Jul 24, 1999
July 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 21: Kargil is set to become the main election issue with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) deciding today to blame Pri...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999
July 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 21: Kargil is set to become the main election issue with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) deciding today to blame Pri...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999
June 23, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: The United States is believed to have assured India that it will not support any move to internationalise the Kashmir...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 23, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 22: The United States is believed to have assured India that it will not support any move to internationalise the Kashmir...
Wed, Jun 23, 1999
June 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 19: Rashtrapati Bhavan is the cynosure of all eyes as pressure mounts to broadbase the decision-making process on the Kar...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999
June 20, 1999 00:00 IST
The Sonia blitzkriegSonia Gandhi has finally agreed to break her silence with an interview blitz prior to the elections. Her think tank h...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999
June 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 12: Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz is believed to have mooted a three-point formula for defusing the Kargil crisi...
Sun, Jun 13, 1999
May 30, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 29: If the Opposition parties today trained their guns on Defence Minister George Fernandes at Prime Minister Atal Behari ...
Sun, May 30, 1999



