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May 03, 1998 00:00 IST
GANDHINAGAR, May 2: Last fortnight's battering at the hands of its allies took the fizz out of the BJP's National Executive meet which began...
Sun, May 03, 1998
May 02, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 1: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) jamboree in Gandhinagar this weekend, which will anoint Kushabhau Thakre as the new presi...
Sat, May 02, 1998
April 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 24: The Vajpayee Government appears to be having trouble finding a ``voice'' for itself. After its continued silence on the...
Sat, Apr 25, 1998
April 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 18: The war in the BJP's extended family continues unabated. Today, it was the turn of Subramanian Swamy and Ram Jethmalani...
Sun, Apr 19, 1998
April 16, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 15: The Government today evaded responding to the latest bombshell from AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha. Prime Minister Atal Beh...
Thu, Apr 16, 1998
April 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 14: The six Governors who resigned on Monday did so on orders from the Vajpayee Government. Home Ministry sources revealed ...
Wed, Apr 15, 1998
April 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 12: Power comes with a huge price tag, as the Atal Behari Vajpayee Government is rapidly discovering. Barely had it assumed...
Mon, Apr 13, 1998
April 05, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 4: Congress president Sonia Gandhi means business. And she wants everyone to know it. In her first interaction with a selec...
Sun, Apr 05, 1998
March 27, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26: Just two days into legislative business and the BJP-led Government has already been given a taste of the troubles in st...
Fri, Mar 27, 1998
March 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 19: Fierce lobbying by the swadeshi hardliners forced Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's hand on Jaswant Singh, resultin...
Fri, Mar 20, 1998
March 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 18: Retired Foreign Service officer and convenor of the BJP's foreign affairs cell Brijesh Mishra was today appointed Princ...
Thu, Mar 19, 1998
March 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 14: The BJP's cheerleaders would like to believe otherwise, but Jayalalitha has pricked the saffron squad's stability bubbl...
Sun, Mar 15, 1998
March 10, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 9: The numbers game in the Lok Sabha has become crucial, more in the case of the battle that is brewing over the post of Sp...
Tue, Mar 10, 1998
March 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 8: BJP president L K Advani and senior leader Jaswant Singh are emerging as frontrunners for the home and finance portfolio...
Mon, Mar 09, 1998
February 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 19: The decision of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to take on Congress president Sitaram Kesri in a public battle has surpri...
Fri, Feb 20, 1998
February 17, 1998 00:00 IST
If voters in the New Delhi constituency can be used as a yardstick to judge the public mood, Sonia Gandhi need not worry about her foreigner...
Tue, Feb 17, 1998
February 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 6: Congress president Sitaram Kesri's unilateral decision to field Indira Gandhi's former aide R.K. Dhawan for the New D...
Sat, Feb 07, 1998
February 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party has subtly revived its Hindutva slogan to counter Sonia Gandhi's aggressive campaign for t...
Wed, Feb 04, 1998
January 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 30: Voters in Uttar Pradesh may well ask themselves this time: "So what's the big difference?"In the bitter battle ...
Sat, Jan 31, 1998
January 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: For a brief moment, it was as if Indira Gandhi had come alive -- the same brisk walk, the business-like wave, the imperio...
Mon, Jan 19, 1998
December 30, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Sonia Gandhi's decision to actively campaign for the Congress party has effectively stemmed the euphoria generated in the...
Tue, Dec 30, 1997
December 13, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 12: The bureaucracy must stand "firm and direct" to ensure that partisan interests are not served in the run-up to...
Sat, Dec 13, 1997
December 07, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, December 6: The Gujral Government's caretaker status has put a question mark on three crucial and sensitive bureaucratic appoint...
Sun, Dec 07, 1997
December 03, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 2: President K R Narayanan indicated to all political leaders who met him today that he is no hurry to dissolve the Lok Sabh...
Wed, Dec 03, 1997
November 29, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 28: The phones were silent and the visitors had stopped. In the twilight of its tenure, the Gujral Government had even lost ...
Sat, Nov 29, 1997





