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May 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Feelings about the Women’s Reservation Bill run so high that the murmurs continued well after the drama in Parliament. It was the hot t...
Thu, May 08, 2003
May 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Not many in the Government seem to have heard of downsizing, including Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, although he controls the purse string...
Thu, May 01, 2003
April 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The Indian Air Force is finding it difficult to keep up with our over-active VIPs. Since last summer, it has on its hands a President, a Vic...
Thu, Apr 24, 2003
April 17, 2003 00:00 IST
For once, BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan’s famed organisational skills sputtered. Caught in the crossfire between two women chief...
Thu, Apr 17, 2003
April 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar were the cynosure of attention when the Indian cricket team called on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, but ...
Thu, Apr 10, 2003
April 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Unruly days are over for the Congress. Sonia Gandhi’s business-like stamp was in evidence once again, this time at the two-day conventi...
Thu, Apr 03, 2003
March 27, 2003 00:00 IST
It's not often that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee loses his temper. However, at the last all party meeting on the Iraq War, senior Con...
Thu, Mar 27, 2003
March 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The BJP is gung-ho about celebrating five years of Atal Behari Vajpayee as Prime Minister. But the PM is not amused. At last week’s par...
Fri, Mar 21, 2003
March 13, 2003 00:00 IST
Cricket has a new and unexpected fan in United States Ambassador Robert Blackwill’s wife. The bemused envoy apparently confessed to Pri...
Thu, Mar 13, 2003
March 06, 2003 00:00 IST
The political establishment is running cricket fever these days. After India’s twin successes in South Africa last week, there’s m...
Thu, Mar 06, 2003
February 27, 2003 00:00 IST
From next year’s budget session, Members of Parliament may be spared the boredom of a double presidential address. Vice-President Bhair...
Thu, Feb 27, 2003
December 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Bollywood never had it so good. Indira Gandhi’s cultural czarinas bypassed it in favour of the classical arts. But the current crop of ...
Sun, Dec 29, 2002
December 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The post-Gujarat churning in the Congress does not include a rethink on the issue of entering into a broad-based anti-BJP alliance as demand...
Thu, Dec 26, 2002
December 23, 2002 00:00 IST
If anyone needs image building in the Vajpayee Government, it’s Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha, who is under fire for his absence fro...
Mon, Dec 23, 2002
December 22, 2002 00:00 IST
His landslide electoral victory may have shut up his critics for the moment but Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is not taking any chanc...
Sun, Dec 22, 2002
December 19, 2002 00:00 IST
India could face economic sanctions from the United States next year if it didn’t make serious efforts to correct its record in domesti...
Thu, Dec 19, 2002
December 16, 2002 00:00 IST
The BJP’s stunning victory in Gujarat is a reality check for the Congress which has been banking on the anti-incumbency factor and diss...
Mon, Dec 16, 2002
December 12, 2002 00:00 IST
After the treatment meted out to him by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee must be wishing he hadn’t been driven by a sense of ...
Thu, Dec 12, 2002
December 09, 2002 00:00 IST
The Id Milan hosted by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee this evening as a substitute for the customary Iftar turned out to be an insipid ...
Mon, Dec 09, 2002
December 05, 2002 00:00 IST
All work and no play may make Parliament a dull place but after two years of disruptions and adjournments, the backlog of pending business i...
Thu, Dec 05, 2002
December 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has given in to the Gujarat BJP’s insistence that he change his campaign pattern and address election rall...
Wed, Dec 04, 2002
November 29, 2002 00:00 IST
The Narendra Modi-Keshubhai Patel feud has reached such proportions that Modi mentor L K Advani is feeling the backlash. Recently, in an eff...
Fri, Nov 29, 2002
November 28, 2002 00:00 IST
The PDP-Congress Government in Jammu and Kashmir will set up a screening committee soon to monitor the release of prisoners, Congress state ...
Thu, Nov 28, 2002
November 25, 2002 00:00 IST
The Opposition is all set to resurrect the Tehelka ghost in Parliament on Monday. The Government’s decision late tonight to accept Just...
Mon, Nov 25, 2002
November 17, 2002 00:00 IST
As the state administration in Gujarat kept its focus on law and order today by banning Pravin Togadia’s entry into Godhra, Prime Minis...
Sun, Nov 17, 2002



