The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

March 28, 2003 00:00 IST
Former US Ambassador to India and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan died on Wednesday at the Washington Hospital Center. He was 76. Moynihan d...
Fri, Mar 28, 2003
March 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The battle for the mind of the British public is as much being fought these days in the British print media and over the air waves, as in th...
Wed, Mar 26, 2003
March 19, 2003 00:00 IST
The drums of war are getting louder and louder in Britain, all but overwhelming the conscience call of a nation deeply divided by the immine...
Wed, Mar 19, 2003
March 17, 2003 00:00 IST
The Lahore Kebab House in London’s East End is the type of down-at-heel joint where you would be far more comfortable in oily overalls ...
Mon, Mar 17, 2003
March 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Taking ‘‘serious note’’ of the abuse and maltreatment of 270 Indian nationals at the hands of Malaysian authorities on S...
Tue, Mar 11, 2003
March 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee’s decision to go to Syria — as well as to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — from March 28 reflects the...
Tue, Mar 11, 2003
March 09, 2003 00:00 IST
With the US-led war against Iraq weighing heavily on his mind, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee is getting ready to visit Syria, a non-permanent...
Sun, Mar 09, 2003
March 04, 2003 00:00 IST
India and Japan may have a long list of things in common, but here’s the truth. An internal meeting in Tokyo’s foreign office, whi...
Tue, Mar 04, 2003
February 28, 2003 00:00 IST
The world seems to have finally become reconciled to India’s nuclear tests five years ago with agreements on the safety of India’s...
Fri, Feb 28, 2003
February 27, 2003 00:00 IST
India could be winning the war of words against Pakistan’s sponsorship of cross-border terrorism, with even Japan coming around to the ...
Thu, Feb 27, 2003
February 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Having got the unwieldy NAM summit out of the way, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee is now all set to undertake a visit to Tajikistan towards th...
Tue, Feb 25, 2003
February 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The deportation by Dubai yesterday of Dawood Ibrahim’s younger brother, Iqbal Kaskar, and a Mumbai blast suspect, Ejaz Pathan, caps a l...
Fri, Feb 21, 2003
February 18, 2003 00:00 IST
India's determination to strengthen its presence in Afghanistan, the linchpin of its renewed vision for Central Asia, will get another shot ...
Tue, Feb 18, 2003
February 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Realising that the expulsion of diplomats was doing more harm than good to their relationship, India and Pakistan will finally exchange visa...
Tue, Feb 18, 2003
February 15, 2003 00:00 IST
The Ministry of External Affairs did not allow Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie and HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi to attend a Track II...
Sat, Feb 15, 2003
February 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Seeking to bridge the yawning gap in bilateral ties, Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan arrived here this afternoon for a four-day ...
Fri, Feb 14, 2003
February 12, 2003 00:00 IST
There's a churning going on in the Gulf and its manifesting itself in the cross-currents of the crisis over Iraq. Even as the war of words h...
Wed, Feb 12, 2003
February 12, 2003 00:00 IST
For hundreds of years, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea was the Omani oyster. In their wooden dhows and colourful sail...
Wed, Feb 12, 2003
February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
Few institutions are given the chance to stand up and be counted by history. Tragically, in the case of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), ...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003
February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
The annual security conference in Munich later this week will be keenly watched because of the presence of US defence secretary Donald Rumsf...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003
February 03, 2003 00:00 IST
The looming inevitability of a US-led war against Iraq will occupy India’s mind this week over a series of high-level interactions with...
Mon, Feb 03, 2003
February 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Amidst a serious deterioration in bilateral ties, Bangladesh foreign minister Manzur Morshed Khan is likely to visit New Delhi soon to show ...
Sat, Feb 01, 2003
January 28, 2003 00:00 IST
The election of Libya to the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Commission last week revealed how the world, obsessed with the impending wa...
Tue, Jan 28, 2003
January 26, 2003 00:00 IST
It must take at least two nations to play the Great Game, and India and Iran today showed surprising determination to rewrite both geography...
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
January 25, 2003 00:00 IST
An increasingly divided world view on Iraq seems to have forced New Delhi to take a first-hand look at the gathering war clouds over the Gul...
Sat, Jan 25, 2003




