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November 15, 2002 00:00 IST
For the first time in four years, Murli Manohar Joshi’s ministry invoked Nehru on Children’s Day and cast his mantle on Prime Mini...
Fri, Nov 15, 2002
November 14, 2002 00:00 IST
A B Vajpayee's birthday gift to L K Advani this year probably broke every tenet in the swadeshi book. It was a bouquet of Thai flowers, purc...
Thu, Nov 14, 2002
November 13, 2002 00:00 IST
Despite misgivings within the BJP and the RSS over the ongoing release of imprisoned political activists in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre ha...
Wed, Nov 13, 2002
October 11, 2002 00:00 IST
The unexpected electoral outcome in Jammu and Kashmir has paved the way for Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to push forward with his two...
Fri, Oct 11, 2002
October 11, 2002 00:00 IST
Former Cabinet Secretary and former Jharkhand Governor Prabhat Kumar’s name still seems to carry clout in the power corridors of New De...
Fri, Oct 11, 2002
October 08, 2002 00:00 IST
To break the deadlock over disinvestment in the oil sector, Advisor to the Finance Minister Vijay Kelkar is learnt to have proposed a ‘...
Tue, Oct 08, 2002
October 03, 2002 00:00 IST
The annual Urs festival celebrations at Ajmer Sharif had an unexpected visitor this year in Murli Manohar Joshi. This veteran saffronite not...
Thu, Oct 03, 2002
October 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The anti-disinvestment lobby within the Government is active once again with three of its chief spokespersons, Defence Minister George Ferna...
Wed, Oct 02, 2002
September 27, 2002 00:00 IST
The resurgence of the anti-Pakistan tirade after the Akshardham temple attack prompted the Government today to postpone a formal reaction to...
Fri, Sep 27, 2002
September 26, 2002 00:00 IST
It's a piquant situation for a samajwadi to be caught in but now that Mulayam Singh Yadav has started taking the social in socialism serious...
Thu, Sep 26, 2002
September 25, 2002 00:00 IST
While their diplomatic battle may show no signs of easing, India and Pakistan have once again silently ensured that the SAARC process is not...
Wed, Sep 25, 2002
September 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Amid mounting anxiety that the disinvestment controversy could derail the economic reforms process, PM Vajpayee has sought Deputy PM L.K. Ad...
Mon, Sep 23, 2002
September 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Urban Development Minister Ananth Kumar is determined that the Congress Government in Delhi doesn’t get an opportunity to score brownie...
Thu, Sep 19, 2002
September 13, 2002 00:00 IST
With Minister of State for Personnel Vasundhara Raje Scindia hemming and hawing about taking charge of the Rajasthan unit of the BJP, her me...
Fri, Sep 13, 2002
September 13, 2002 00:00 IST
After the disinvestment controversy, Prime Minister Vajpayee may find himself nursing another headache when he returns from New York followi...
Fri, Sep 13, 2002
September 11, 2002 00:00 IST
The oil firms’ disinvestment controversy was used not only by Defence Minister George Fernandes to flex his muscles, but also by HRD Mi...
Wed, Sep 11, 2002
September 07, 2002 00:00 IST
The speculation over the next Cabinet Secretary has finally ended, with Home Secretary Kamal Pandey’s name being approved to succeed T ...
Sat, Sep 07, 2002
September 05, 2002 00:00 IST
Any time is party time in political circles these days. Politicians just need an excuse to hold a bash and last weekend provided enough reas...
Thu, Sep 05, 2002
August 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Size and strength need not match, believes UP’s Congress chief Munna Singh. He has just constituted the largest ever state executive wi...
Thu, Aug 29, 2002
August 21, 2002 00:00 IST
They don’t bunk just Parliament. Of late, political leaders have taken to skipping protocol functions as well, resulting in the embarra...
Wed, Aug 21, 2002
August 20, 2002 00:00 IST
The political establishment may have to do a quick reassessment of the implications of veteran BJP leader Bhairon Singh Shekhawat’s mov...
Tue, Aug 20, 2002
August 15, 2002 00:00 IST
In a bid to counter Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s dismissal of next month’s elections in Jammu and Kashmir as a ‘...
Thu, Aug 15, 2002
August 14, 2002 00:00 IST
The weather gods have at last condescended to smile on us with some monsoon showers. But in the process, they may have washed out newly elec...
Wed, Aug 14, 2002
August 10, 2002 00:00 IST
After the Election Commission’s microscope, the Modi Government will now come under scrutiny from the President of India. In a move th...
Sat, Aug 10, 2002
August 07, 2002 00:00 IST
At least one person in the BJP must be smiling secretly over the Petrol Pump Scam—Petroleum Minister Ram Naik’s Minister of State ...
Wed, Aug 07, 2002



