The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

May 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 30: India today attempted to regain the diplomatic advantage it had temporarily lost in the wake of Pakistan's first nuclear ...
Sun, May 31, 1998
May 21, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 20: The Government today indicated that there would be no preconditions in the dialogue India intends to carry out with key i...
Thu, May 21, 1998
May 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 19: India's ambassador to China, Vijay K Nambiar, was urgently summoned today for consultations with the government, indicati...
Wed, May 20, 1998
May 18, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, May 17: From Ghauri to `Shakti', Pakistan's press has been on an emotional roller-coaster, indicating the state of a fifty-year-o...
Mon, May 18, 1998
May 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 13: The Government today defied world opinion again by conducting two more nuclear tests, then extended an olive branch by an...
Thu, May 14, 1998
May 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 12: The day after India, with its triple test, upset the carefully delineated nuclear pecking order, the international commun...
Wed, May 13, 1998
May 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 8: In an attempt to regain some of their lost relevance for the people of Kashmir, some Hurriyat leaders are in town trying t...
Sat, May 09, 1998
May 05, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 4: Commoner and diplomat, the people of Afghanistan are aghast and furious that Pakistan has belittled their great kings of t...
Tue, May 05, 1998
May 02, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 1: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will not be going to Egypt for the G-15 (Group-15) meeting of heads of government and ...
Sat, May 02, 1998
May 01, 1998 00:00 IST
India and the US will meet again today in Washington, barely two weeks after their encounter in New Delhi. Foreign secretary K. Raghunath wi...
Fri, May 01, 1998
April 24, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, April 23: The government is formulating a major foreign policy shift on India's neighbourhood, effectively dumping former prime m...
Fri, Apr 24, 1998
April 22, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 21: The bilateral dialogue between India and Pakistan seems fated to run aground, especially after the Pakistani Foreign Mi...
Wed, Apr 22, 1998
April 16, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 15: The United States' suggestion that India ``continue to exercise restraint'' on its defence and security postures seems ...
Thu, Apr 16, 1998
April 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 14: US President Bill Clinton's visiting personal envoy is believed to have asked India to continue its policy of nuclear r...
Wed, Apr 15, 1998
April 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 13: The government seems to be highly sceptical about agreeing to any ``grand bargains'' on the nuclear issue that might be...
Tue, Apr 14, 1998
April 14, 1998 00:00 IST
Still fresh into the exercise of power, the BJP government receives today a high-profile delegation from Washington that understands well th...
Tue, Apr 14, 1998
April 10, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 9: US President Bill Clinton's high-ranking envoy Bill Richardson is leading a delegation to South Asia next week and hopes...
Fri, Apr 10, 1998
April 02, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 1: The Americans are coming. Over the next fortnight, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government is going to be deluged wi...
Thu, Apr 02, 1998
March 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 17: Hours before a BJP-led Government takes over at the Centre, the Ministry of External Affairs today issued its strongest...
Wed, Mar 18, 1998
March 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 8: The Left Front today conceded the battle for New Delhi to the BJP, but prepared to stake out for the long war ahead by a...
Mon, Mar 09, 1998
March 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 7: Left parties seem to be veering around to not supporting the Congress even if it is called upon by the President to stak...
Sun, Mar 08, 1998
March 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 5: The Politburo of the CPI(M) today declared that it would do everything to stop the BJP from forming a government at the ...
Sat, Mar 07, 1998
March 06, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 5: The Politburo of the CPI(M) today declared that it would do everything to stop the BJP from forming a government at the ...
Fri, Mar 06, 1998
February 23, 1998 00:00 IST
"We are the greatest country in the world." Wave upon wave of rapturous applause greeted Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of S...
Mon, Feb 23, 1998
February 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 18: France brought its diplomatic effort to defuse the crisis in Iraq to New Delhi today, when a special emissary of the...
Fri, Feb 20, 1998



