The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

June 19, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 18: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's personal envoy, Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra, has delivered a letter from...
Sat, Jun 19, 1999
June 18, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 17: India and Bangladesh are working to achieve a breakthrough agreement allowing the passage of Indian goods through Ban...
Fri, Jun 18, 1999
June 18, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 17: India's diplomatic blitzkrieg to counter the crisis along the Line of Control (LoC) has moved up several notches with...
Fri, Jun 18, 1999
June 17, 1999 00:00 IST
The overwhelming sense of relief in the Indian Embassy in Beijing is palpable. Having been blacklisted by Official Beijing in the wake of...
Thu, Jun 17, 1999
June 16, 1999 00:00 IST
Relive the Soviet era here, not in RussiaSome of the mediapersons covering External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh's visit have, happily,...
Wed, Jun 16, 1999
June 16, 1999 00:00 IST
BEIJING, JUNE 15: China is no longer a threat for India. The last thirteen months of bilateral recrimination and hostility is a thing of ...
Wed, Jun 16, 1999
June 15, 1999 00:00 IST
BEIJING, June 14: Thirteen months after relations between India and China went into deep freeze, Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Si...
Tue, Jun 15, 1999
June 15, 1999 00:00 IST
BEIJING, June 14: Thirteen months after relations between India and China went into deep freeze, Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Si...
Tue, Jun 15, 1999
June 14, 1999 00:00 IST
BEIJING, June 13: External Affairs minister Jaswant Singh arrives in Beijing tomorrow, close on the heels of his Pakistani counterpart Sa...
Mon, Jun 14, 1999
June 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 12: The first face-to-face meeting between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan since the intrusion across the LoC...
Sun, Jun 13, 1999
June 12, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 11: The long shadow of the tortured bodies of six Indian soldiers that hangs over the talks on Saturday between India and...
Sat, Jun 12, 1999
June 11, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 10: Pakistan stands even more isolated in the international community, over its sponsorship of the infiltration along the...
Fri, Jun 11, 1999
June 06, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5: India took a hard line on the proposed visit of Pakistani foreign minister Sartaj Aziz today, telling Pakistan that th...
Sun, Jun 06, 1999
June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 31: India today accepted Pakistan's offer to send its Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz to New Delhi for talks on the Kargil cr...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999
June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 31: India today accepted Pakistan's offer to send its Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz to New Delhi for talks on the Kargil cr...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999
May 29, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 28: Foreign Secretary K Raghunath on Friday called in the troika of European Union ambassadors to brief them on the Kargil...
Sat, May 29, 1999
May 20, 1999 00:00 IST
All three who happened to die when NATO's missiles simultaneously targetted (mistakenly) the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were journalists...
Thu, May 20, 1999
May 15, 1999 00:00 IST
If you have a warm feeling towards a country, give it a temperature higher than 50 degrees. If you have a cool feeling, give it less than...
Sat, May 15, 1999
May 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MAY 6: With polls slated only for September-October, the Ministry of External Affairs is bravely attempting to conduct busines...
Fri, May 07, 1999
April 27, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 26: The first senior official-level talks between India and China after New Delhi went nuclear last May began on an upbe...
Tue, Apr 27, 1999
April 19, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 18: Foreign Secretary K Raghunath will proceed apace with his visit to China, scheduled for April 27-28, to participate ...
Mon, Apr 19, 1999
April 13, 1999 00:00 IST
India's ancient neighbours, the Central Asians, have an uncanny knack of landing up plump in the middle of political maelstroms. The last...
Tue, Apr 13, 1999
April 12, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, April 11: Exactly eleven months after India's nuclear tests provoked shock and consternation worldwide, Western reactions to t...
Mon, Apr 12, 1999
April 09, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 8: India sealed a decision to buy gas worth nearly $25 billion over 25 years with Qatar yesterday, sending a message tha...
Fri, Apr 09, 1999
April 09, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 8: India sealed a decision to buy gas worth nearly $25 billion over 25 years with Qatar yesterday, sending a message tha...
Fri, Apr 09, 1999




