The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

February 19, 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...
Thu, Feb 19, 1998
February 09, 1998 00:00 IST
If power flows from the barrel of the gun, the BJP manifesto would catapult India into the nuclear club. The chapter on security policy blun...
Mon, Feb 09, 1998
February 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEB 3: When the election campaign lacks a message, middlemen become the all-important medium. In this case, savvy admen selling d...
Wed, Feb 04, 1998
February 01, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 31: In an effort to break out of a sub-continental foreign policy focus, Prime Minister I K Gujral yesterday took the unprece...
Sun, Feb 01, 1998
January 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: India's french connection is all set to come alive with President Jacques Chirac coming as the guest of honour at the nat...
Mon, Jan 19, 1998
January 01, 1998 00:00 IST
In the new year, New Delhi needs to focus on a resolution that will appropriately define its foreign policy in the next century -- a permane...
Thu, Jan 01, 1998
December 16, 1997 00:00 IST
Welcome to India, the world's favourite punching-bag. When Clinton gets bored with playing with his new labrador, he ramblingly concludes t...
Tue, Dec 16, 1997
December 05, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Prime Minister IK Gujral has throughout kept faith with his first love, foreign affairs. Last week, even as his governmen...
Fri, Dec 05, 1997
December 02, 1997 00:00 IST
Over the 40 years since the Dalai Lama escaped Chinese repression in Tibet, exchanging the Potala for more modest lodgings in Dharamsala, t...
Tue, Dec 02, 1997
November 19, 1997 00:00 IST
For weeks, nay months, the Ministry of External Affairs has been making preparations, with a mixture of wariness and growing confidence, fo...
Wed, Nov 19, 1997
November 15, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 14: Seven years after IK Gujral and Saddam Hussein went into a bear hug in Baghdad, an event that characterised the naivete ...
Sat, Nov 15, 1997
August 26, 1997 00:00 IST
Long before the Queen of England's Indian itinerary became a controversy at home and abroad, there hung a tale of British insensitivity to ...
Tue, Aug 26, 1997
August 26, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 25: High commissioner to South Africa and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Gopal Gandhi, is likely to be inducted as the new secr...
Tue, Aug 26, 1997
August 18, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 17: Prime Minister I K Gujral will be attending the 52nd session of the United Nations on September 29 and 30, where he will...
Mon, Aug 18, 1997
August 01, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 31: The Union ministry of external affairs has expressed "surprise" at Pakistan's Minister for Petroleum and Natu...
Fri, Aug 01, 1997
July 21, 1997 00:00 IST
ALMATY (Kazakhstan), July 20: The Central Asian republics and Russia will not accept a proposal by Pakistan to hold a conference on Afghani...
Mon, Jul 21, 1997
July 18, 1997 00:00 IST
The latest fulminations by Robin Raphel would amount to what the Americans themselves call, `Monday morning quarter back'. The former assis...
Fri, Jul 18, 1997
July 17, 1997 00:00 IST
ASHKABAD, TURKMENISTAN, July 16: Central Asia's destiny is being written in bold letters as sure as night follows day. But India, obsessed ...
Thu, Jul 17, 1997
July 15, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 14: Even as India and the United States attempt to get a grip on their bilateral relationship in the wake of persistent dif...
Tue, Jul 15, 1997
July 09, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 8: Prime Minister I K Gujral will make an unprecedented visit to Malaysia towards the end of the month, to attend a meeting...
Wed, Jul 09, 1997
July 03, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 2: A quiet trans-national economic revolution is taking place on India's eastern seaboard.Myanmar is joining a regional gro...
Thu, Jul 03, 1997
June 25, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 24: The United States seems to be sending out strong signals to India on the nuclear-strategic front, even talking about a ...
Wed, Jun 25, 1997
June 20, 1997 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan met in the conference room in Islamabad yesterday, only for the second time since 1994. So much water has flowed down th...
Fri, Jun 20, 1997
June 19, 1997 00:00 IST
New Delhi, June 18: India has no problem with setting up a working group on Kashmir during the second round of Foreign Secretary-level talk...
Thu, Jun 19, 1997
June 13, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 12: Derek Fatchett, British Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, has not raised Kashmir with ``any seriousness'' ...
Fri, Jun 13, 1997



