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November 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 24: The government has already set up a command and control system for the nuclear arsenal it hopes to develop, according to ...
Wed, Nov 25, 1998
November 24, 1998 00:00 IST
ON BOARD THE PM'S AIRCRAFT, Nov 23: As electioneering reached a shrill end this evening, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rounded off his...
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
November 10, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 9: The BJP's temperamental sanyasin, Uma Bharati, has abandoned her ``kamandal'' for an image makeover which may catapult her...
Tue, Nov 10, 1998
October 29, 1998 00:00 IST
There is a Vaghela-esque quality to Delhi strongman Madan Lal Khurana's current plight. For as long as anyone can remember, the BJP in th...
Thu, Oct 29, 1998
October 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 6: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is likely to go ahead with the promised expansion of his council of ministers to si...
Wed, Oct 07, 1998
September 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 27: The current chill in Sino-Indian relations threatens to derail the 11th round of border talks between the two countri...
Mon, Sep 28, 1998
September 10, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 9: An embarrassed PMO today sought to extricate itself from the bungling over of M K Bezbaruah's transfer by pointing a f...
Thu, Sep 10, 1998
August 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 27: In one swift stroke yesterday, the Prime Minister's Office assumed for itself the role of a super finance ministry....
Fri, Aug 28, 1998
August 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: With both the President and the Prime Minister scheduled to undertake important foreign visits next month, political p...
Tue, Aug 25, 1998
August 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 13: Enforcement Director M K Bezboruah was appointed Transport Commissioner in the Delhi Government today, fuelling spe...
Fri, Aug 14, 1998
August 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 8: This time last year, Members of Parliament had marked the golden jubilee of India's Independence with a solemn vow t...
Sun, Aug 09, 1998
July 27, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 26: Consider these: Three years after the Rao Government first proposed to replace the outdated FERA with FEMA and an acc...
Mon, Jul 27, 1998
July 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 18: The post-Pokharan phase of Indian diplomacy has altered power equations in the BJP-led Government with Jaswant Singh ...
Sun, Jul 19, 1998
July 06, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 5: India has opened negotiations with the P-5 on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, hoping to extract concessions from the W...
Mon, Jul 06, 1998
July 01, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 30: The crisis rocking the Vajpayee Government seems to be waning with the Congress asking the Bharatiya Janata Party's nigh...
Wed, Jul 01, 1998
June 27, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 26: The move to oust the Vajpayee Government has drawn Sonia Gandhi into a war of nerves with the non-Congress opposition pa...
Sat, Jun 27, 1998
June 26, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 25: In keeping with her plans to corporatise the functioning of the Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi has decided to set up a sec...
Fri, Jun 26, 1998
June 11, 1998 00:00 IST
It is a telling comment on the Vajpayee government that of all the pledges contained in the National Agenda for Governance, it first chose t...
Thu, Jun 11, 1998
June 11, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 10: The abrupt backtracking by the Congress on its adjournment motion against the coalition in Parliament yesterday has reve...
Thu, Jun 11, 1998
May 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 29: Rarely has there been a schism in the long-established practice of a national consensus on foreign policy. But as the bit...
Sat, May 30, 1998
May 28, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 27: After a brief but disastrous attempt to reshape India's China policy, the Vajpayee Government is now trying to undo the d...
Thu, May 28, 1998
May 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 13: The Government is hoping the "China factor" will bail it out of a hurtful sanction regime the international com...
Thu, May 14, 1998
May 05, 1998 00:00 IST
Gandhinagar, May 4: The Lotus is feeling the heat of compromises and confusion. This was evident today as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpaye...
Tue, May 05, 1998
May 04, 1998 00:00 IST
Gandhinagar, May 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party skipped all contentious issues on the opening day of its National Council meet today in an ef...
Mon, May 04, 1998
May 04, 1998 00:00 IST
Gandhinagar, May 3: The BJP is in two minds over effecting the promised Cabinet expansion before the budget session which begins at the end ...
Mon, May 04, 1998



