The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

November 17, 2003 00:00 IST
A month after China committed $ 200 million towards the construction of a European alternative to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), a ...
Mon, Nov 17, 2003
November 17, 2003 00:00 IST
The two Norwegian mediators in Sri Lanka’s on-off peace process with the LTTE, Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgessen and special envo...
Mon, Nov 17, 2003
November 16, 2003 00:00 IST
India's already tense relationship with Bangladesh has hit a new low with Dhaka formally criticising comments made by outgoing Indian High C...
Sun, Nov 16, 2003
November 15, 2003 00:00 IST
The last US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, called the bilateral economic relationship ‘‘flat as a chapati.’’ Wit...
Sat, Nov 15, 2003
November 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Theirs is the story of one civilisation and two nations. It’s easy to cross the boundary between India and Pakistan, the boy-cattle her...
Wed, Nov 12, 2003
November 09, 2003 00:00 IST
SOON after she came to power in 1994, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, 58, wrote several letters to LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran te...
Sun, Nov 09, 2003
November 06, 2003 00:00 IST
Even as it shies away from direct dialogue with Pakistan, India is using the SAARC cover to slowly prepare for Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee&...
Thu, Nov 06, 2003
November 04, 2003 00:00 IST
As India embarks upon a new peace initiative with Pakistan, the experience of an Israeli professor who has led various experiments in Track ...
Tue, Nov 04, 2003
November 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Refusing dialogue with a military dictatorship on its western front, India seems to be busy courting one in the east. Vice-President Bhairon...
Sat, Nov 01, 2003
November 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Khan’s diplomatic house arrest finally came to an end today with a meeting with Commerce Minister Arun ...
Sat, Nov 01, 2003
October 25, 2003 00:00 IST
New Delhi may be waiting for a more detailed response from Islamabad on its renewed peace initiative but the wheels of the Foreign Office he...
Sat, Oct 25, 2003
October 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The ghost of the 20th century Chinese philosopher Lin Yutang will be prowling around the Prime Minister’s Office when India and China o...
Thu, Oct 23, 2003
October 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien arrives in New Delhi later this week and so what if he’s perceived as a sort of lame duck back ho...
Wed, Oct 22, 2003
October 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The Ministry of External Affairs has disallowed the highly prestigious Pugwash organisation, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, to hos...
Tue, Oct 21, 2003
October 17, 2003 00:00 IST
India reacted with cold silence tonight to the unanimous passage of a US-sponsored resolution on Iraq by the UN Security Council as the rest...
Fri, Oct 17, 2003
October 16, 2003 00:00 IST
As the US returned to a glaring hyphenation of the sub-continent, calling on India and Pakistan to exercise nuclear and missile restraint an...
Thu, Oct 16, 2003
October 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Between the long and bitter silences that currently constitute the India-Pakistan relationship, a couple of events this week have begun to g...
Wed, Oct 15, 2003
October 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Defence Minister George Fernandes makes no attempt at hiding his affection for Japan. Apart from a painting of Mahatma Gandhi — said to...
Tue, Oct 14, 2003
October 13, 2003 00:00 IST
Who’s afraid of China, anyway? Ask India’s industry, which is taking a bumper delegation of top guns and CEOs to showcase its migh...
Mon, Oct 13, 2003
October 08, 2003 00:00 IST
There’s more than an ocean that separates New York from New Delhi and some of it shows up in the crowds that come to hear the Dalai Lam...
Wed, Oct 08, 2003
October 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Did Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee bring forward his visit to Bali by a day so as to accommodate a meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jia...
Tue, Oct 07, 2003
October 06, 2003 00:00 IST
India and the US are set to sign a pathbreaking new agreement on cooperation in high-technology, space launch equipment, civilian nuclear en...
Mon, Oct 06, 2003
September 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Vajpayee today ruled out sending Indian troops to Iraq — at least for the time being. Speaking to journalists at his end...
Sat, Sep 27, 2003
September 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Crafted boldly on the streets of Srinagar where he offered a hand of friendship, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee’s Pakistan policy today la...
Sat, Sep 27, 2003
September 26, 2003 00:00 IST
A US presidential omission of India as a victim of terrorism seems to have hardened India’s position on cutting a side deal with Washin...
Fri, Sep 26, 2003




